Category: Dead to sin

Control is an illusion, but isolation is not.

The cross of Christ is God’s last and endless word. There the prince of this world is judged, there sin is killed, and pride is done to death, there …

(Latin: If you want peace, prepare for war) We live in a culture that, as Cardinal Francis George said, “permits everything and yet forgives nothing.” And so people despair …

Grace is no more a license to sin than electricity is a license to electrocute yourself. ~Dr. Paul Ellis … If then you have been raised with Christ, seek …

“Then the lion said — but I don’t know if it spoke — You will have to let me undress you. I was afraid of his claws, I can …

When are we living in Christ? When we live according to His Gospel and His Church. For He Himself, and not only His Gospel, is in the Church with …

Death is only painful to him who resists it. The imagination exaggerates its terrors. The spirit argues endlessly to show the propriety of the life of self. Self-love fights …

There is an intimate bond between the sufferings of Christ and the conflict and suffering in each Christian life. The daily dying of the Christian is a prolongation of …