In our call to holiness we are called to map the path to the Kingdom of Heaven. The older maps could not take into account the huge amount of scholarship that has been done by modern developmental psychology in mapping … Continue reading
Category Archives: Called To Holiness
So the call to holiness is the call to find the Kingdom of God within us – to find His Spirit in the Temple of our own bodies. Throughout the centuries Christian authors have attempted to map the spiritual path … Continue reading
Continuing thoughts from the last issue wherein I introduced the fancy and esoteric idea of nondual consciousness, I would add that Jesus’ nondual vision of the Kingdom of Heaven was not a paradox. It only seems like a paradox to … Continue reading
As I shared with my readers, The call to holiness is a call to make God’s Kingdom real right now. It means giving meaning to the words of John the Baptizer and Jesus when they said: Repent, for the Kingdom … Continue reading
As you will recall, when I started this article it was about the characteristics of a Vibrant Parish. Our Patriarch and Synod of Bishops have called our entire Church to think about what it means to be people who are … Continue reading
The call to holiness is a call to bear witness to the revelation of God through the Person of Jesus. True evangelization, I believe, is all about bearing witness to this truth. It means living in such a manner that … Continue reading
The mission of the Church is to evangelize. Contrary to manipulative strategies of proselytizers, those in true evangelizing ministry are simply inviting people to a relationship of love with God in the context of community. The call to evangelize is … Continue reading
We cannot receive salvation from Christ and His Spirit unless we discipline ourselves by an inner attention over the elements within us that tend to hold us in bondage and disintegration. Or, more simply said, we can only receive salvation … Continue reading
Throughout his Gospel, St John focuses on this great pivotal truth: humans are truly helpless to make themselves whole. It is only through Christ, who is The Way, the Truth and the Life, that we can become who God intended … Continue reading
Being called to holiness means being called to more fully understand life and the purpose of life. St. Irenaeus in the 2nd century summarized the aim of God’s creation and the peak of its evolution when the Word became flesh: … Continue reading