The spiritual life calls for total commitment. Once we sincerely enter into the discipleship of Christ, we have to reorient not only part, but the whole of our activities and relationships. This explains why our liturgical texts touch all sectors … Continue reading
Category Archives: Called To Holiness
So the call to holiness is, in truth, a call for spiritual renewal so that we might grow in our likeness of God as seen in Jesus Christ. By spiritually educating ourselves in the faith, we make a decision to … Continue reading
The Call to Holiness is an invitation by God to gain a proper perspective on the Eastern view of salvation. The Eastern Church has a distinctive anthropological outlook which has definite implications. In the main, Eastern anthropology looks forward to … Continue reading
As I shared in the last issue of this article, before union with God can take place, two things must happen: God must reach out to us and we must respond. When God’s hand of grace is grasped by our … Continue reading
What is important to know about the Call to Holiness is that God wants free-will partners. He created us to be His sons and daughters not His blind slaves. Once we come to know Him, however, we do become His … Continue reading
One of the first things we need to do in order to find our True Self is to admit that our imaginations need cleansing, that they are filled with all kinds of images that do us no good whatsoever and … Continue reading
As I finished this article last time I shared this thought: Jesus asks us to tell Him the thoughts of our minds and to let them go into His hands, thereby cleansing our inner selves and making us whole and … Continue reading
In the last issue of this article, I began to present some General Principles relating to finding our true selves. I ended the article with the fact that Jesus knows that we have thoughts of vengeance, violence, lust, pride; there … Continue reading
In the last issue I began to present some general principles about freeing our true selves. The question is, How can we do this? The simple answer is that we cannot do it unassisted. Unassisted we have no power to … Continue reading
It is important that we ask Jesus to help us consecrate our imagination, intellect, will and memory to God and to cleanse them of all the unholy things with which we have filled them. Thus given to God and filled … Continue reading