Second Sunday in Lent

‘In total, during the first eighty-eight years of the [twentieth] century, almost 170 million men, women, and children were shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hanged, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad other ways governments have inflicted deaths on unarmed helpless citizens and [...]

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First Sunday in Advent

‘Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, – “Wait and hope”.’
- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
‘A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes… and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to [...]

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Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

‘…[L]ook around you on the Metro; seated or standing, every single person has a finger in some orifice of his face – in the ear, in the mouth, in the nose; no one feels he’s being observed, and everyone dreams of writing a book to tell about his unique and inimitable self, which is picking [...]

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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

‘Jesus does not promise that when we bless our enemies and do good to them they will not despitefully use and persecute us. They certainly will. But not even that can hurt or overcome us, so long as we pray for them. For if we pray for them, we are taking their distress [...]

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Fifth Sunday in Easter

‘The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.’
- Vaclav Havel
 
‘…[T]he heart of the matter is knowing whether evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it’s [...]

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