Throughout the Old and New Testaments, including the writings of John, the theme of light is used in three ways. First, light designates an essentially moral reality, a manner of upright living. John seldom uses the image of light in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Called To Holiness
Knowing God is to enter into a whole way of life. It is the perfection or the completion of all other levels of human life, physical, emotional and intellectual. It is being caught up in the liberating, tender love of … Continue reading
The call to holiness was given to each of us at the time of our initiation into the Church. We are called to a deeper understanding of life and our relationship with God. We are called to understand that not … Continue reading
In this time after Easter our Gospel readings during the Divine Liturgy are taken, for the most past, from the Gospel of John. His Gospel views the beautiful diamond of God’s infinite being as a community of burning, loving life … Continue reading
One of the things that became abundantly clear to me as we celebrated Pascha, was that the call to holiness is the call to live life in a certain manner right now. The call is not to a life after … Continue reading
As we celebrate Pascha, the call to holiness takes on yet another meaning. The call to holiness issued by Pascha is one to put our whole hope and trust in the truth of that which is revealed, namely that life … Continue reading
You are encouraged, as we enter into the Great and Holy Week, to make time to think about your life’s journey. I truly believe that if we take time to reflect upon the life of Christ, we will find that … Continue reading
Our journey to holiness, as I shared in the last installment of this article, is facilitated by honest self-examination. We first discover where we have failed to unconditionally lover others. Seeing how well we have done on the journey is … Continue reading
At this point I would like to review what I have been sharing with you about the call to holiness. Each person’s journey toward God is unique. But the common element of every journey, if it is to succeed, is … Continue reading
The final help that we have in responding to the call to holiness is prayer and hope. We do not have to be long on the spiritual journey before we find that it is very unpredictable. It is not under … Continue reading