SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“The ideas that constitute “modernity” center around life as management. Modernity assumes that life can be managed, and that human...

“Yet here [striving to do God’s will] is precisely where the conflict is great. What gives our inner conflicts their power over us? We...

“ ‘Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart’ (2 Corinthians 4:1).  In the face of...

“All of us have known moments during which close kin or wonderful friends have suffered a grievous loss. Our instinct is to go to them,...

“The godly suffer, in part, so that having experienced God's comfort they in turn can comfort others. Thus, Paul shows the fallacy in his...

“...the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with the tremendous difference...

“Even if we do not constantly struggle against “murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Matthew 12:19),...

“The deeper meaning of “faith” (pistis) is “trust,” total and unwavering confidence in God’s utter faithfulness towards us. In response...

“ ‘Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. For from now on five in one house will...

“St. Paul is clear that salvation, eternal life which comes as the reward given by our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ on the great...