{"id":157401,"date":"2024-12-10T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=157401"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:13:08","slug":"where-is-gods-word-to-be-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/where-is-gods-word-to-be-kept\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is God\u2019s word to be kept?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"157401\" class=\"elementor elementor-157401\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63572ad1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"63572ad1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13b6ecba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13b6ecba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>\u201cFor as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there but water the earth\u2026 so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I intend and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.\u201d \u2014 Isaiah 55:10-11<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><i>Dear<\/i><b><i> Friends,<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Advent is a time of particularly intense preparation, as we ready our hearts to welcome God\u2019s Word made flesh. How does this happen? The great Cistercian St. Bernard of Clairvaux offers excellent advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is God\u2019s word to be kept?\u201d he asks. \u201cObviously in the heart, as the prophet says: \u2018I have hidden your words in my heart, so that I may not sin against you.\u2019\u201d St. Bernard continues: \u201cKeep God\u2019s word in this way. Let it enter into your very being, let it take possession of your desires and your whole way of life. Feed on goodness, and your soul will delight in its richness. Remember to eat your bread, or your heart will wither away. Fill your soul with richness and strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What might that mean for each of us, in our daily journey? How can we keep God\u2019s word in our hearts and delight in the richness of the Lord? Perhaps time with God\u2019s word in Sacred Scripture is what we need\u2014perhaps we could prayerfully read Luke 1:26-39, to bring us into Mary\u2019s heart, into our own hearts and ultimately into the heart of God.<\/p>\n<p>God bless,<\/p>\n<p>Fr. John Pietropaoli<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkAb19jdHDmifJbs9WHa_Ozx5VIGOhyIh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Priests and a Mic podcaster<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there but water the earth\u2026 so shall my word be that goes forth from my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":191785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3004,6616,3001],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-157401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regnum-christi-news","category-weekly-message","category-news-article"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where is God\u2019s word to be kept? 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He served as chaplain at Divine Mercy University in Virginia from 2014-2017, as superior of the Legionary community in Philadelphia from 2017-2020, and as a professor at the Legionaries of Christ College of Humanities in Cheshire from 2021-2023. Currently stationed in Northern Virginia, he serves as superior of the Legionary community based at Divine Mercy University (DMU) and teaches in DMU\u2019s spiritual direction program. His contributions to RCSpirituality include writing\u00a0Retreat Guides\u00a0and\u00a0RC Essays,\u00a0co-presenting podcasts at\u00a0Two Priests and a Mic,\u00a0and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/jpietropaoli\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157401"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=157401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}