“What Christ our God called the ‘narrow way’ (Matthew 7:14), He also called an ‘easy yoke’ and ‘light burden’ (Matthew 11:30). How could He equate these things when they seem to be contraries? For our nature, certainly, this path is…
“We are Christ's own people; our vocation on earth is to be in history, in the course of our short-lived existence, what Christ has been: love divine incarnate; vulnerable unto death and unto torment; helpless because it is totally and…
The Nativity and Epiphany:The fullness of celebrating the coming of our Lord By Father Nicholas Speier In approaching the Christmas Feast and celebrating the beginning of the New Year (2009) we recall that the historic Christian center of this time…
(The following article was published in the October, 2008, issue of TOUCHTONE Magazine. Its author, John Thompson, is a librarian at Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he also teaches New Testament. He, his wife Nancy, and their three children…
“Above everything, beware of your own confidence, lest you fall from a height of discipline because of lack of training. It is better to move ahead a little at a time. So then, withdraw from the pleasures of life little…
