SACRAMENTAL LIVING

" 'In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all of own possessions' (Luke 10:33). The...

“By holding on so tightly to our sense of self, we choked God, strangling him, and put him to death. ‘But,’ you might ask, ‘can God die?’...

“There is within every human person gold and silver and mud and dross. Life in this age has been given to us for repentance and the...

“The story of the first sin begins not with a choice, but with a lie. As much as we tend to emphasize “free-will” as the origin and...

“Hidden under that English translation blessed is the Greek word makarios. This is not the usual word, evlogitos, which literally means...

“Those who have strong faith can follow their conscience before God and avoid sin. According to St. John Chrysostom, those who are weak...

“…the heart is the innermost center of our being. It is the seat of our thoughts, emotions, will, self-awareness, and conscience. It...

“In our culture, love has often been reduced – even abused in its over-definition. Almost totally lacking, however, is a practice of...

“For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the...

“We prefer lies over truth, darkness instead of light, and truth only in small measure. The famous movie line “you can’t handle the...