“I remember in the days of my youth when, walking to church in the golden morning light, there was a breakthrough, a touch with a mysterious bliss. And all my life, deep down, has been a search for this contact,…

“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!” Ecclesiastes 1:2 How many times have we heard this saying? I have heard it enough to know that I lack sensitivity when trying to understand its depth of meaning and wisdom. Like unknowingly placing…

“Of all the accusations against Christians, the most terrible one was uttered by Nietzsche when he said that Christians had no joy.” Fr. Alexander Schmemann As I sit down to write this I am tired and not very eager to…

“I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.” Bob Cratchit from Charles…

“The Fathers and the whole early tradition not only do not know [a] distinction and opposition [between symbol and reality in the sacraments], but to them symbolism is the essential dimension of the sacrament, the proper key to its understanding.”…