{"id":162291,"date":"2025-03-06T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=162291"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:43:58","slug":"lent-2025-day-2-god-is-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/lent-2025-day-2-god-is-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent 2025 &#8211; Day 2 &#8211; God is Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"162291\" class=\"elementor elementor-162291\" 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-cbf6437 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cbf6437\" 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-789b194 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"789b194\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6THo9llbCtXsZZ6OjFd6zp?utm_source=generator\" style=\"border-radius:12px\"  width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bee7262 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bee7262\" 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><strong>Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>God Is Faithful<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christianity is grace, it is the wonder of a God who is not satisfied with creating the world and man, but puts himself on the same level as the creature he has made, and after speaking on various occasions and in different ways through his prophets, \u201cin these last days . . . has spoken to us by a Son\u201d (Hebrews 1:1\u20132).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 St. John Paul II, Novo Millennio Ineunte, 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God\u2019s grace is never lacking. His 99 percent is always available. He never fails us. He never forgets about us. He never goes on vacation leaving us to fend for ourselves for a while. No \u2014 \u201cGod is faithful,\u201d St. Paul reminds us (1 Corinthians 1:9). Just as he took the initiative to create and redeem us, beginning in us the \u201cgood work\u201d of holiness, so he \u201cwill bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus\u201d (Phillipians 1:6). The Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us of this in its very first paragraph:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Chapter 1)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God\u2019s grace, his action, his part, is never lacking. It reaches out to us and surrounds us and sustains us at every time and in every place, like the very atmosphere we breathe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the bottom line in our friendship with Christ. This is the starting line and the finishing line. Jesus, his trustworthiness, his faithfulness, his absolute dependability and unlimited loyalty \u2014 this is the \u201cAlpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end\u201d (Revelations 22:13).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A Message from the Cross<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was one of the reasons that God chose to save us through the betrayal, humiliation, torture, crucifixion, and death of his only-begotten Son. Saving us that way shows, once and for all, that nothing we do can cause God to give up on us. He stayed faithful to us, loving and forgiving us, throughout the horrible injustices and crimes that we committed against him during Christ\u2019s passion and death. And after all that, he still loves us and reaches out to us and offers us his grace. Because of that, we have absolute assurance of his undying faithfulness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Paul understood this as well as anyone, and better than most. He put it like this in his letter to the Christians in Rome:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? (Romans 8:31\u201332)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his encyclical letter Lumen Fidei (15\u201316), Pope Francis gave this fundamental truth brilliant expression. He wrote (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The history of Jesus is the complete manifestation of God\u2019s reliability. . . . The clearest proof of the reliability of Christ\u2019s love is to be found in his dying for our sake. If laying down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends is the greatest proof of love (from John 15:13), Jesus offered his own life for all, even for his enemies, to transform their hearts. This explains why the evangelists could see the hour of Christ\u2019s crucifixion as the culmination of the gaze of faith; in that hour the depth and breadth of God\u2019s love shone forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Learning to Trust<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s easy to say but hard to live; it\u2019s hard to trust that God will always be doing his part, the 99 percent, even when we waver or get sloppy in doing our 1 percent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our modern, post-Christian culture steadily feeds us the lie that if we just work a little bit harder, or a little bit smarter, we can create heaven on earth; we can perfect ourselves. We tend to believe the lie, because even in the safest of harbors, in the bosom of our family when we\u2019re growing up, we discover that human approval and affection can (and sometimes even must) be earned. And so this lie seeps into our relationship with God. We feel as if we need to make ourselves worthy of God\u2019s grace; he will only do his part, we mistakenly tell ourselves, if we do our part really, really well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God knows how hard it is for us to trust him, and he is always looking for ways to help us out. As a result, the story of salvation that unfolds in the pages of the Bible comes back to the truth of God\u2019s utter reliability over and over again, like a refrain. God manifests his faithfulness to his people all the way from the very beginning, through the experiences of Abraham, Moses, all the kings and prophets of the Old Testament, and all the apostles and saints of the New Testament. Maybe the Blessed Virgin Mary expressed it best when she simply proclaimed: \u201cHis mercy is from age to age\u201d (Luke 1:50).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Images That Inspire Confidence\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prayer book of the Old Testament (and of the Church), the Psalms, draws on images from the natural world to dispel the hesitancy of our fallen nature and emblazon confidence in God on our hearts. Read Psalm 36:5\u20136, for example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lord, your mercy reaches to heaven;your fidelity, to the clouds. Your justice is like the highest mountains;your judgments, like the mighty deep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The psalmist compares the immeasurable qualities of God to some of the most evocative scenes of the created world. The vast expanse of the sky, the atmosphere that surrounds and upholds us every moment, whether or not we are aware of it, is a pale reflection of the Lord\u2019s \u201cmercy and faithfulness.\u201d Is there a limit to the sky, to the heavens? Not one that we can see or experience. Just so, God\u2019s forgiveness, goodness, and love have no limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The solidity, the firmness, the unflagging and monumentally dependable presence of the mountains show forth to the inspired psalmist the absolute firmness of God\u2019s justice \u2014 a Hebrew word connoting truth and faithfulness, utter reliability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vast and mysterious power and motion of the sea, so mesmerizing, inviting, and awe-inspiring, are for the psalmist a glimpse of the untiring wisdom of God \u2014 his judgments, his will, his attentive and intimate governance of all things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is our God. This is the Lord who is always doing his part. This is the bedrock of our faith and the steady assurance that allows us to stumble along joyfully at his side as we make a decent effort to do our part. It starts with him. It always starts with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Questions for Personal Reflection or Group Discussion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What idea in this reflection struck you most and why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When have you experienced personally God\u2019s amazing faithfulness? (Remember, consider, and give thanks.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are some of the factors in your life that keep you from trusting God more fully?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Confidence in God can show itself in many different ways throughout the ups and downs of your daily life. It can soften the blows of disappointment or loss, since you know that God loves to work wonders out of weakness. It can fill you with courage to do the right thing, what you know is truly right, even when peer pressure is violently pulling you in the wrong direction, because you know that God\u2019s way is always the better way. It can free you to rejoice in the successes of other people, instead of resenting them, because you know that God\u2019s love for you doesn\u2019t depend on winning competitions. What will you do today to express your confidence in God?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will humbly accept my human limitations by saying \u201cno\u201d to good opportunities or invitations that would require me to overcommit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will simply say a prayer for someone who is struggling and wants to unreasonably draw me into their tangled situation, instead of thinking that it\u2019s up to me to solve everyone\u2019s problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will visit the grave of a loved one and surrender that person into God\u2019s care once and for all, letting go \u2014 through prayer \u2014 of the resentment or fear that still accompanies my feelings of loss.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Write your own resolution) I will<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Concluding Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We give you praise, Father most holy, for 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