{"id":163246,"date":"2025-03-10T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=163246"},"modified":"2025-03-10T06:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:59:57","slug":"lent-2025-day-6-focusing-on-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/lent-2025-day-6-focusing-on-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent 2025 &#8211; Day 6 &#8211; Focusing on the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"163246\" class=\"elementor elementor-163246\" 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-4f4b5d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"4f4b5d9\" 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\/75k5az6exgao63NvTdzvvG?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 6<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Focusing on the Heart<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, on this Lord\u2019s Day, I wish to invite all those who are listening to my words, not to forget our immortal destiny: life after death \u2014 the eternal happiness of heaven, or the awful possibility of eternal punishment, eternal separation from God, in what the Christian tradition has called hell. There can be no truly Christian living without an openness to this transcendent dimension of our lives. \u201cBoth in life and death we are the Lord\u2019s\u201d (Romans 14:8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 St. John Paul II, Homily, September 13, 1987<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first arena of love that Jesus points out is the \u201cheart.\u201d In all three New Testament versions of this greatest commandment, heart is always first on the list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Scripture uses this term more than a thousand times, but never to refer simply to the biological organ. The term always has a fuller, more complete, and more spiritual cachet. With so many appearances, the word can\u2019t help but take on a variety of connotations, yet the core meaning always remains the same. The heart refers to the deepest center of the person, the irreplaceable and irreducible \u201cI\u201d of the unique human individual. All the other powers of human nature flow from and depend on the heart. A person can say, \u201cMy feelings, my decisions, my hopes, my desires, my thoughts . . . \u201d But while all of those possessions belong to someone, the heart is the biblical term that refers to the core identity of that someone; it encompasses the substantive center of the possessor of everything else.The Catechism explores the mysterious origin of prayer:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter, because as image of God we live in relation: it is the place of covenant. (CCC, 2563)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the heart. Jesus commands his followers to love him, in the first place, with all their heart. What does this mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Treasure Hunt<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus gives us a revealing clue in another one of his discourses, when he says, \u201cFor where your treasure is, there also will your heart be\u201d (Matthew 6:21). A treasure is what we value most, what we desire most, what we set our sights on attaining or maintaining. To love God with all our heart, therefore, means to make God \u2014 communion with him, friendship with him \u2014 into the overarching goal of our lives, into our most precious possession, into our deepest yearning. It means making our relationship with God the true north of our earthly journey, so that every decision, every desire, every hope and dream, every interpersonal interaction is evaluated, lived, and developed in light of that fundamental, orienting relationship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, anything that may damage our relationship with God must be cut away or re-dimensioned, especially sin and sinful habits, whereas anything that harmonizes with or may enhance our relationship with God is welcomed and integrated more and more fully into our life. As you can see, engaging the whole heart in our love for God is not something that happens from one moment to the next; it is a process. To love God with all your heart means intentionally and gradually making your relationship with him into the greatest \u2014 indeed, the only \u2014 treasure of your life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Keep On Seeking<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loving God with all our heart means wanting, above everything else, to grow continually in our communion with him, in our friendship with him. This desire may start small, but as we grow, it also grows. And as our heart comes to love God more and more fully, every other desire is slowly but surely subordinated to and harmonized with that overarching desire, and so every experience, circumstance, and activity serves to bring us into a deeper knowledge of him. This is why Jesus was able to assure us, \u201cBlessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God\u201d (Matthew 5:8).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, we get what we want. If we truly want God, if our heart is set on pursuing God, on seeking him, on living in a deeper and deeper communion with him, God will not deny us that treasure, which is called heaven \u2014 after all, that\u2019s what he created us for. This is why he can solemnly promise: \u201cSeek and you will find\u201d (Matthew 7:7). In the original Greek, the verb seek has the sense of an ongoing process: \u201cKeep on seeking, and you will find.\u201d If we keep our hearts pointed toward God, we will reach full communion with God, wherein we find our happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, if we persistently prefer to seek our fulfillment in something else, in some idol \u2014 whether other relationships, achievements, or pleasures \u2014 and leave communion with God as a secondary concern, or as no concern at all, God will honor our choice. He will keep trying to convince us to set aside our idols in favor of his friendship, but he won\u2019t force us to do so. If we keep declining his invitations to the end, the purpose for which we were created \u2014 living in communion with God \u2014 will be everlastingly frustrated, and this is called hell.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Two Kinds of People<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C.S. Lewis put it simply and eloquently in his masterpiece, The Great Divorce, referring to our Lord\u2019s amazing promise about seeking and finding: \u201cAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened\u201d (Matthew 7:7\u20138). Lewis comments on that dictum as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, \u201cThy will be done,\u201d and those to whom God says, in the end, \u201cThy will be done.\u201d All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Jesus commands us to love God with all our heart, he is teaching us the right answer to the very first question he asked in the Gospel of John, a question that each of us must answer anew every single day of our lives: \u201cWhat are you looking for?\u201d (John 1:38). Where am I hoping to find the happiness I cannot resist desiring? If I hope to find it in God, I am loving God with my heart. As I progressively learn to hope to find it in God alone, and to order all the other smaller loves of my heart around that greatest love, I am learning to love God with all my heart.<\/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 you look into the depths of your soul, how do you answer Christ\u2019s question: \u201cWhat are you looking for?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If an observer were to follow you around for a typical week of your life, what would they conclude you are looking for in life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here on earth we find ourselves filled with conflicting desires. Even though, on the one hand, we do sincerely desire God, we also experience less worthy desires that often pop up uninvited. But God understands what you\u2019re made of! He will help you increase your good, God-centered desires, and purify the others. You just have to work with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, what will you do to nourish your hope in God as the source of your lasting happiness?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will take ten minutes to write down the most beautiful and satisfying experiences I have ever had \u2014 and then reflect on how they are connected to God and his love for me.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After each meal today, I will say a short but sincere prayer of thanks before getting up from the table.<\/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;\">Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thou my soul\u2019s Shelter, Thou my high Tower:<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Riches I heed not, nor man\u2019s empty praise,<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thou mine Inheritance, now and 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