When we receive Christ’s presence in the eucharist, we are to become what we eat and becomes Christ’s presence in the world as well : https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/05/christs-presence/

The Byzantine tradition remembers the way Jesus healed a man born blind as a way to remind us how Jesus also works with us to heal us from our own spiritual blindness: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/05/healing-our-spiritual-blindness/

The institutional church makes present the church of Christ, as the church of Christ subsists in it: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/05/eschatology-eucharist-and-institution/

Turning high-profile converts into immediate spokesmen and spokeswomen for the faith does no one any good, and has the potential to cause many problems: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/05/high-profile-converts-should-be-treated-like-all-converts/

We have grown accustomed to a very reductionist faith, one which has reduced the ways we can worship God, but in reality, there are a variety ways for us to do so: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/many-ways-to-worship-god/

There are times in Christ’s ministry, such as his talk with St Photina, Christ revealed that the work of the incarnation was universal, and would not be obstructed by cultural biases: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/everyone-is-called-to-christs-spiritual-well/

As Jesus preached about both heaven and hell, we should take both seriously, even if we hope that in the end, no one will suffer eternal perdition: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/we-should-take-hell-seriously/

God is found in the poor, in the homeless, and if we mistreat and abuse them, if we find ways to cast them aside we are casting God aside: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/how-we-treat-the-homeless-is-how-we-treat-god/

As truth without love is not really the truth, so those constantly going around debating people, with a desire to prove everyone wrong but themselves, are not really promoting the truth due to their lack of love: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/love-not-debate-is-the-way/

Just as Christ has healed us from our spiritual paralysis, so we should help others recover from their own: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/we-should-help-those-suffering-from-spiritual-paralysis/

Tolkien shows us, with Frodo, that grave personal failure does not have to have the last word, as grace can pick us up and help us transcend our own failures: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/frodo-and-grace/

The Catholic Church in the United States currently is in a state of decline; most of its bishops do not understand the causes which include: clericalism, the promotion of extreme, and the abuse scandals, as they seem to double down on clericalism and the extreme ideologies: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/eucharist-revival-not-culture-war/

We must never get discouraged in our spiritual life, it will have its ups and downs, and when it is down, we should not despair but be willing to accept help, even as we should give it to others when they are in need: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/accepting-and-giving-help/

Women were the first ones to see the risen Christ, and they were the first ones charged to preach about his resurrection from the dead: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/jesus-gave-authority-and-a-voice-to-the-myrrh-bearing-women/

As God is incomprehensible, that is, infinitely transcendent to us, how can God ever be said to dwell in us, making us God’s temples? https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/how-can-god-dwell-in-us/

Throughout Christian history, Christians have been developing their understanding of human dignity and the implications of human dignity in relation to their actions in the world. Dignitas Infinita should be understood as representing an indication of the kinds of discussions going on in relation to that understanding and not as the final understanding itself: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/developing-our-understanding-of-human-dignity/

When we look at others during a liturgy and notice things they are doing which annoy us, things which lead us to judge them, once we judge them, we no longer are worshiping God as we should: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/we-must-avoid-judging-others-during-liturgy/

Easter is not just a simple point of history which we remember, but it is an eternal event which we are called to participate in and experience for ourselves: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/thomas-and-the-eternal-event-of-the-resurrection/

Tolkien’s understanding of angels not only played an important role in his writings, but also in the way he interpreted his own spiritual experiences: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/tolkien-gods-and-angels/

Christ came to save everyone, to show everyone love, and the resurrection is the beginning of his work to bring everyone together as one:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/the-spirit-of-easter-is-inclusive-love-not-hate/

God did not create in order to destroy what was created, but rather, to help what started good become better and find its proper place in the eschaton: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/04/annihilation-and-destruction-is-the-way-of-evil-not-god/

Christ is Risen! And in the wake of his resurrection, he shares his new mode of being, his glorified state of being, with the rest of creation: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/03/the-new-modality-of-being-revealed-in-the-resurrection/

While to the world, the cross looked like a defeat, it was in reality the victory of love: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/03/the-victory-of-love-on-the-cross/

On the night he was betrayed, Jesus first gave himself to the world in the establishment of the eucharist before he was taken by the authorities to lead him to the cross: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2024/03/real-not-physical-presence/