Our Crumbling Sanctuaries
I. “All your problems are in your head.” That’s what he told me. I can remember that day like it was yesterday. I had been in a sour mood...
Becoming Human is Adoring God
I. What does it mean to become Christian? What does it mean to be enrolled as a Catechumen? What does it mean to be on this journey...
To See a Person
I. “Having seen him he had compassion.” In Greek, this is two words: ιδων εσπλαγχνισθη - ‘seeing’ and ‘compassion.’ A woman named Susan...
God's Reach Into Our Humanity
"Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said...
Giving Glory
I. “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet” (Revelations 1:10). St. John the Evangelist...
Recovering Reverence for Holiness
I. “My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers” (Luke 19:46). The Ark of the Covenant was associated with...
The Abolition of False Dichotomies
I. "Use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings" (Luke 16:9)....
Vision in an Era of Cultural Decline
“You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,...
God, Bread, and Prayer
“Remember God more often then you breathe” ~ St. Gregory of Nazianzus I. A host of 4,000 followed Christ to the desert. They were hungry....
Tied and Fettered by Hatred
I. “One cannot enter into eternity tied and fettered by hatred.” Most of us have known someone who is eaten up, inside out, with anger. I...