Do not forget that the word "passion" means suffering, not sin. A greater part of the duty of the priest is to help heal human suffering. Sometimes, the passions lead us into sin just because of the bitterness that the passions cause. Open your heart to the suffering...

Matthew 4: 1-11 “To love means to empower.” “Communion makes us vulnerable." -from Becoming Human by Jean Vanier Just as there is daily bread, there is daily choice. At the root of choice is to love and trust God or not. As well, do justly and love our neighbor or...

Corrupt scales versus Justice Filthy rags versus Perfection Broken bloody gate Who else would allow anyone to pass? Preciously accurate scale, Who else would absorb the cost, the weight? We might call you broken But you are brilliant, shining, shining and strong...

The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created as supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no value to men. The wasteland was the land that could never be wasted by men because it offered them nothing. There was nothing to...

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for...

As I went to sit down this morning to do my Advent reading and have some "still time", I had this amazing sense of this little space I'd made being like taking a few minutes to enter into the hallowed stable where the manger that held Jesus stood. I thought that...

“Ye rich and ye poor...enter ye all into the joy of the Lord.” This year, as we approach the Feast of the Incarnation of God, we might reflect on the beloved Paschal Sermon of Saint John Chrysostom. In it, he invites all, those at every level of society and in every...