+ So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. (John 11:6). But Christ, who is more concerned with conquering death than removing suffering, whose idea of love is not to raise someone from a sickbed, but to bring him...

+ To identify the movements of the Spirit in our lives, I have found it helpful to use the words: “taken,” “blessed,” “broken,” and “given.” These words summarize our lives, because at each [Liturgy] the priest takes bread, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it. These words summarize our life...

+ The Lord teaches that we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven unless we revert to the nature of children, that is, we must recall into the simplicity of children the vices of the body and mind. He has called children all who believe through the faith of listening. For...

  As Christians, we have forgotten how to love and pray for our enemies. The devil, in his craftiness, has tricked us into not recognizing that we do not love our enemies or bless those who persecute us. The devil makes us think that Christ’s command to love one’s enemy...