Rediscovering the Sacred Home

We need to unplug from the machine, and tune in to God’s reality. Fight for Christian Culture Something is sick in our modern lifestyle. The moral and cultural foundations of society are crumbling, but what are the underlying reasons? Where did we go wrong from the start, and how can we get back to balance? How can we reclaim, here and now, in twenty-first century America, an authentic Christian culture? How can we revitalize an environment, a lifestyle, a series of daily hab

Our Homes Are Our Domestic Churches “Disorder in the sensible will echo with disorder in the spiritual” (Fr. Francis Bethel 199). Every Christian’s home should become a “little church” — imbued with beauty, order, wholesome rituals, and focus as in the Divine Liturgy. The environment in the home shapes the kind of people we become, whether in worldliness or in kingdom-mindedness, and creates a sanctuary for everyone who walks in through the front door. We Learn Our Humanity f

Make Homes into Sanctuaries The world is starved for holy space. Secular man will find hope not in lectures or social reforms, but only through encountering holiness. This begins in the parish. It then proceeds to the home. Men, women, married or single, young or old, share this mission. We should be willing to sacrifice everything for it — to create homes and sanctuaries for quiet and nourishment. It is in such an environment, untinged by worldliness, “far from the madding c

“Bonum Est Diffusivum Sui” * “In the life of the mind, as in all things, there is an order, having a beginning, a middle, and an end. Poetry begins in delight and ends in wonder; philosophy begins in wonder and ends in wisdom” (John Senior). The Crisis of the Modern Soul Our senses are dull. Our souls are atrophied… The great crisis in the modern soul is its disconnection from reality: i.e. God, nature, and beauty. The flashing images and buzzing noise have crippled our abili

“We must return to the Faith of our fathers by way of the prayer of our fathers.” ~ John Senior The Vacuum of our Secular Era As modern day Americans, it is nearly impossible for us to imagine what a balanced and healthy Christian lifestyle actually looks like. Protestantism has played the largest role in shaping the way we Americans understand religious life. All too often,

"They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear" (Psalm 135:15-16). “Ubi amor ibi oculus” ~ “Where love is, there the eye is also” This cryptic medieval note cuts to the heart of all knowledge. We can know nothing without first loving. We can not love, without first touching, tasting, smelling, hearing, and seeing Reality. Modern man lives in a crisis of never touching the reality around us because our environment cuts us o