{"id":163241,"date":"2025-03-09T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=163241"},"modified":"2025-03-09T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:16:54","slug":"lent-2025-day-5-loving-with-my-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/lent-2025-day-5-loving-with-my-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent 2025 &#8211; Day 5 &#8211; Loving with my All"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"163241\" class=\"elementor elementor-163241\" 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-6dd2ed3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"6dd2ed3\" 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\/2pgh93afzK0MLyGLOy2tfR?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><b>Day 5<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Loving with My All<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I praise the Lord with you, because he is so great and beautiful a Love as to deserve the priceless gift of the whole person in the unfathomable depths of the heart, and in the concrete unfolding of daily duty through the various stages of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 St. John Paul II, Homily, February 2, 2002<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mere fact that you are participating in this Lenten Challenge \u2014 and have gotten this far \u2014 should fill you with deep, intense joy. It shows that you already desire the most important thing: to know, love, and follow Jesus Christ more fully every day. That desire is supernatural. You couldn\u2019t have stirred it up on your own. Its presence in your soul shows without any doubt that God is with you and acting in your life. The engine of holiness is already humming in the depths of your heart, just as it was for the Blessed Virgin Mary. As the Preface of the Mass for Advent puts it: \u201c . . . The Virgin Mother longed for him with love beyond all telling.\u201d Your longing to love God more fully, even if it seems to be a small or dim longing way down in the basement of your being, is in itself a movement of a very deep love for him, a love that gives him immense pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deep longing for fulfillment, the yearning to come closer to Christ, is itself the work of Christ. He plants good, holy desires in the human heart so that he can later fulfill them. Through this longing, God is drawing you closer to his divine heart, where you will find more than you could ever have imagined, where your most intense desires will be satisfied to overflowing. As St. Thomas Aquinas put it when commenting on the fullness of love that the faithful experience in heaven: \u201cEternal life is the perfect fulfillment of desire; in as much as each of the blessed will have more than he desired or hoped for.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowing that God is leading us to this glorious, indescribable destination should be an ongoing source of encouragement for all of us, as it was for St. Paul: \u201cWhat eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him . . . \u201d (1 Corinthians 2:9). We have that to look forward to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A Precise Totality of Love\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus summarized our part in the fulfillment of this longing when he gave us the two great commandments. But fulfilling those commandments requires understanding them. What exactly was Jesus trying to tell us when he commanded us: \u201cYou shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength\u201d? This, according to our Lord, is the first and greatest commandment, which overflows into the second most important commandment, \u201cYou shall love your neighbor as yourself\u201d (Mark 12:30\u201331).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have two possible interpretations for the verse about loving God. First, Jesus may have simply been using many terms to say one thing: Love God totally! His use of the terms heart, soul, mind, and strength may have been simply a rhetorical device, a poetic way of expressing totality, emphasized by his fourfold repetition of the word all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, on the other hand, Jesus may have been consciously referring to the different powers of the soul when he listed those four modes of loving God. He may have meant exactly what he said, giving us clear instructions about what mature love for God looks like: it fills and overflows from the four main dimensions of human nature \u2014 the heart, the emotions, the intelligence, and the will.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These two interpretations are not mutually exclusive. They actually complement each other. To love God totally means to love him with every fiber of one\u2019s being. And that means integrating every sector of one\u2019s life and every capacity of our human nature into a true friendship with Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beyond Self-Help Lists<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The self-help industry tends to divide up the art of living. It promotes \u201cfive ways to become happy,\u201d and \u201cseven tricks to get ahead,\u201d and \u201cten secrets to success.\u201d This is not necessarily a bad thing. Lists like these often contain excellent advice. And in the face of real life\u2019s real complexity, they provide a certain degree of clarity, order, and understanding. The Ten Commandments themselves follow a similar structure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, in the Christian tradition, the Ten Commandments have always been seen as guidelines that point out the bare minimum requirements for staying on the path to happiness. The essence of happiness goes beyond the bare minimum; it goes deeper. Full spiritual maturity can never consist in mechanically fulfilling a list of dos and don\u2019ts. Jesus knows this. And so, without completely erasing the lists, he brings us to the deeper level, to a more unified vision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authentic love is the essence of happiness: loving God totally, with all the powers of our human nature, and expressing that love through concrete decisions in daily life, through treating others (God\u2019s children, created in God\u2019s image and likeness) with the same concern and proactivity that marks every person\u2019s spontaneous attitude toward oneself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Four Arenas of Love<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus chooses to describe this total love for God by referring to four separate arenas, so to speak, in which that love can be developed and grown and shown. This was no mistake. Three of the four terms Jesus uses were also used in the Old Testament; they formed part of God\u2019s original revelation to Israel (see Deuteronomy 6:5). Jesus reiterates them. And so, surely they mean something. To penetrate this meaning will open up new possibilities in any Christian\u2019s life, because it will show concrete ways to channel every Christian\u2019s deep desire to love God more fully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following chapters will examine in depth each of these four arenas of love, showing how each of the four activates different powers built into human nature. Only by growing harmoniously in all four areas can we truly allow God\u2019s grace to transform every corner of our lives, gradually discovering the abundant life that Jesus identified as the goal of his life\u2019s mission: \u201cI came so that they might have life, and have it more abundantly\u201d (John 10:10).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although we will examine each sector separately, it\u2019s important to keep in mind that they are all connected. What happens in the emotions, for example, reverberates in the mind and the heart, and the direction of our heart affects our will and our emotions, and so on. The human person is a unified whole, even though our human nature does indeed have various powers and faculties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Savoring the Promise<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But before branching into the distinctions between heart, soul, mind, and strength, we should pause and take some time to savor the promise hidden inside this first commandment \u2014 the promise that God\u2019s grace is working hard to bring us not merely to an earthly happiness that comes from following five secret tips, but rather to the full, glorious, and everlasting satisfaction of spiritual maturity. Here\u2019s how Pope Benedict XVI portrayed that maturity in the context of describing the implications of our faith in Jesus. Notice how his expression seems to brim over with joy, energy, and optimism, which is how all of us should approach the great adventure of growing in God\u2019s love:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faith in the Lord is not something that affects only our minds, the realm of intellectual knowledge; rather, it is a change involving the whole of our existence: our feelings, heart, mind, will, body, emotions and human relationships. With faith, everything changes in us and for us, and it reveals clearly our future destiny, the truth of our vocation in history, the meaning of our lives, the joy of being pilgrims en route to our heavenly homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Questions for Personal Reflections 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 did you first start experiencing a desire to know, love, and follow Jesus Christ more fully? Remember and savor that moment of grace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What things in your life tend to encourage that holy desire, and what tends to drain it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think about the activities and commitments coming up in the next twenty-four hours. Which ones will be most threatening to the interior equilibrium that flows from loving God with your all? Think now about how you can react to those things more wisely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With someone I tend to get into arguments with, I will listen and ask questions to understand what he or she means before responding.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With work I don\u2019t enjoy but have to do, I will make the Sign of the Cross and begin with a prayer to Jesus to ask for strength.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a strong temptation that I often end up giving in to, I will avoid putting myself in the situation where the temptation usually arises.<\/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;\">Soul of Christ, be my sanctification.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Body of Christ, be my salvation.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blood of 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