“I love to pray in God’s Church, especially in the sanctuary near the altar because then I change miraculously through God’s grace; during the prayers of repentance and moments of tender emotion my soul sheds its thorns and chains of…

“When you are a Bear of very little brain, and you think of things, you find sometimes that a thing which seemed thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking…

“A Christian does not control his own life, but gives his whole time to God.” St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to Polycarp There has been a most amazing shift in my life since I left Madison in January of 1991…

“For just as a snake which is brought from its dark hole into the light makes every effort to escape and hide itself, so malicious thoughts [sin] that a person brings out into the open by sincere confession seek to…

“Now that we have come to the setting of the sun and behold the light of evening we praise God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…” The shortness of days have reached their peak with the first day of winter having…