“We have an enemy who has great interest in keeping our eyes on what appears to be dead and dying but through the stirrings of the Holy Spirit, the Father wants us to see what He is about and through His Son, join in his great work.” – Dr. Anthony Lilles
“How is the Risen Lord present to us? He is not simply present in the world – one presence among other presences. He is present to the world through His mystical body holding the whole world together.” – Dr. Anthonly Lilles
“The sacred has a certain structure – it is structured out of and into silence in a manner that evokes awe and reverence.” – Dr. Anthony Lilles
“Mary’s openness to the blessings of God chart a way forward for humanity toward an eternal sacred order before which the exigencies of each historical moment must yield.” – Dr. Anthony Lilles
“Under the shadow of the Cross, the storm of secularism is not the last word about humanity.” – Dr. Anthony Lilles
In the Nativity of the Lord, the cries of the world, the cries of the human heart, and the cries of God coincide. These shared
In Spiritual Mothers and Fathers, God sends us living icons of Himself so that we might find signposts to His Heart.
The Eucharist, the sacred banquet, is a mystery that evokes a certain kind of contemplation.
The discipline of the Christian life, the discipline of obedience to the Lord, is filled with blessings, fruitfulness, gifts and deepest meaning.
Our greater awareness of method and recourse to technology in theology today seems to be at the expense of prayer. Very few scholars teach or write as if they believe that contemplation is of any objective value to the theological enterprise or that mystical wisdom has any real importance for the life of the Church.
