David Given Schwarm

As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around with resolved the fate of humanity. In Eden, Adam sinned; in Gethsemane, Christ took humanity’s sin upon Himself. In Eden, Adam hid from God; Christ…

Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong about hunger, but there is something wrong about gluttony; there is no sin in thirst, but there is a sin in drunkenness; there is nothing wrong with a man who seeks…

Imagine a large circle and in the center of it rays of light that spread out to the circumference. The light in the center is God, each of us is a ray. The closer the rays are to the center, the closer the rays one to one another. The closer we live to God, the…