“Within the total human community, there is a community which alone is capable of grasping our transcendent vocation. This is the church, a chosen community, whose members are not chosen for privilege but for duty.” Courage to Pray by Metropolitan…

“Let us then give exact heed to the words (of the Gospel), and let us not cease to unfold and search them through, for it is from continual application that we get some advantage. So shall we be able to…

“I, personally, have sought with my poor mind the answer to the question, ‘What is life?’ and have found none. Still, reading over and over again in the Holy Scripture, I have found Christ saying: ‘I am the Life’. So…

“And I know well, that to many I seem over-minute in busying myself about these things; I shall not however refrain from this. For the cause of all our evils is this, such faults as being at all counted as…

“So compare your soul with the life of Christ; and as you set your face before a mirror, set your soul before the mirror of the immaculate life of Christ, and take every care to correct and go after whatever…