{"id":161090,"date":"2025-02-11T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=161090"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:14:42","slug":"where-is-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/where-is-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is God?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"161090\" class=\"elementor elementor-161090\" 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><em>Faith, Hope, and Love abide, these three\u2026 (1 Corinthians 13:13)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dear Friends<\/strong><b>,<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, I led a group of seminarians through a course on western civilization from the Investiture Controversy through the French Revolution. Like all human history it\u2019s a tumultuous period, full of fits and starts and promises apparently unfulfilled. As we explored the ups and downs in the Church and in society, one of our leitmotifs came from Gerard Manley Hopkin\u2019s magnificent poem \u201cAs Kingfishers Catch Fire\u201d which ends with these words: \u201c<em>Christ plays in ten thousand places\/Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his\/To the Father through the features of men\u2019s faces<\/em>.\u201d Together we attempted to see Christ present in those ten thousand places \u2013 and it\u2019s remarkable what the eyes of our hearts can see when we really look.<\/p>\n<p>This, it seems to me, is what faith accomplishes. Faith is not a vague irrational feeling that \u201csomehow it will all work out.\u201d On the other hand, faith is not a cold calculation by which we reduce God to a tidy idea or a divine problem solver.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, faith is a relationship: passionate, intense, and at times difficult, in which we continually entrust ourselves to the Lord, whose goodness and kindness we know. Faith is a response of our whole person \u2013 mind, heart, will \u2013 to the living God who gives himself to us continually. And as we entrust ourselves to the Lord, we begin to share in <em>his<\/em> vision of our lives and of human history. History becomes salvation history.<\/p>\n<p>All this enables us, in the Holy Spirit, to glimpse Christ and the Father always at work (John 5:17); and we also know that \u201c<em>many things greater than these lie hidden, for we have seen but few of his works<\/em>\u201d (Sirach 43:32).<\/p>\n<p>What might that mean for me, today? How is the Lord inviting me to entrust myself, and others, to his love once again? Because yesterday, today, and forever, \u201c<em>Christ plays in ten thousand places\/Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his\/To the Father through the features of men\u2019s faces<\/em>.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>God bless,<\/p>\n<p>Fr. 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