dignity

You May Drink, But In Moderation!

31 Mar 2016

Flee drunkenness as not to fall in the sin of fornication. God created wine for us, but for the joy of the heart and not for drunkenness.

How Can We Wean Children Off Lying?

28 Mar 2016

Thus, cultivating in the heart of your children the respect and the love towards truth, you must fight yourselves, with all your strength, against lie. Teach your children, from the youngest age, to despise lie, to know that God is Truth and that any lie is a sin.

Out of Love, God Offered Us the Ultimate Gift: Freedom of Choice

22 Feb 2016

It depends on our will if we want to meet Him or if we choose to mind our own business. We are free. This is the great privilege we were given in the day of our creation. This is the greatest mystery of our world. God has found through freedom the ideal form of mankind that can feel free and independent, even with the risk of being deprived of Him.

The dark side of our imagination

30 Dec 2015

St. Hesychius of Sinai teaches that imagination was the main cause of man’s fall: ‘And so it separated Adam from God, giving him visions of divine dignity. And so the liar and cunning enemy tends to deceive all sinners.’