Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
Some reflections on iconography and pornography based on conversations in the USA with an iconographer, Anne, and two parish priests, Fr Peter and Fr Paul, all from different parts of the country.
The one-hundredth canon of the Council in Trullo in 692 states:
“Let thine eyes behold the thing which is right,” orders Wisdom, “and keep thine heart with all care.” For the bodily senses easily bring their own impressions into the soul. Therefore we order… [ read more ]
As a priest I am often the first person those struggling with trauma and addiction turn to; as a person I struggle with my own trauma and addictive behavior. But I find that recognizing the problem is only a first baby step. How do I understand how the trauma affects my soul? How does my own self-deception prevent healing? How do I fit the broken pieces of my soul back together into the image of… [ read more ]
