{"id":163271,"date":"2025-03-15T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=163271"},"modified":"2025-03-09T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:42:25","slug":"lent-2025-day-11-following-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/lent-2025-day-11-following-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent 2025 &#8211; Day 11 &#8211; Following the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"163271\" class=\"elementor elementor-163271\" 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-bf0b2b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"bf0b2b7\" 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\/0597k4BSAEvtvVCs9cOOjr?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 11\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Following the Light<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My special hope for you is this: that you will always have a great love for truth \u2014 the truth about God, the truth about man and the truth about the world. I pray that through truth you will serve humanity and experience real freedom. In the words of Jesus Christ: \u201cYou will know the truth and the truth will set you free\u201d (John 8:32).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 St. John Paul II, Address, September 11, 1987<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emotions provide the energy we need to take action in life. But they need to be educated so they can move us toward actions that truly contribute to what is best for us and for the world around us. The wild horse needs to be taught to obey its wise rider.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That rider may want to go in the right direction \u2014 his or her heart may be in the right place. But what if the rider simply doesn\u2019t know the way to get there? What if the rider\u2019s intelligence lacks the necessary knowledge and light and capacity to recognize the proper landmarks and follow the true path? In that case, it will be impossible to make progress. This is why our Lord singled out this capacity of the human person when he gave us the great commandment: \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God . . . with all your mind\u201d (Mark 12:30).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A Darkened Mind<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Original sin ruptured the original harmony that God had built into the human family\u2019s relationship with himself, with the created world, and with each other. It also wounded human nature from within, including our spiritual faculties (intelligence and will). Before the Fall, our first parents saw and grasped clearly God\u2019s plan for themselves and for the world. They saw things as God saw them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, after the Fall, humanity became \u201csubject to ignorance,\u201d as the Catechism puts it (CCC, 405). The world became a place full of shadows and threats. God became distant and mysterious, and religion degenerated, in most cases, into fear-inspired superstition. The human person became a puzzle to himself; the true meaning of human life, our origin, our purpose, and our path to achieve that purpose, became shrouded in darkness. Mankind became lost in a labyrinth of confusion that our own rebellion against God had constructed. St. Paul reveals the starkness of the situation, commenting on the persistent wickedness of a fallen race:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes. Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (Romans 1:21\u201325)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Coming of the Light<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An essential ingredient in God\u2019s plan for redeeming such a benighted human family, therefore, was light \u2014 the light of truth. The story of salvation includes a gradual, gentle, and glorious revelation of the truth about God, the world, and ourselves. This revelation began immediately after the fall of our first parents, continued and developed throughout the history of the Old Covenant, and reached its culmination in the incarnation, life, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Covenant in Jesus, also known as the New Testament, explains and brings to fulfillment all that went before in the Old Testament. In Christ, we have been given new access to the truth that our minds were created to discover, explore, and grasp. We have been shown a sure path out of the deadening ignorance that forms part of the inheritance of sin: \u201cI am the light of the world,\u201d Jesus proclaimed (and he certainly proclaimed it with a beaming and inviting smile, not with a fierce and ferocious frown); \u201cwhoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life\u201d (John 8:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Deepest Questions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who are we? Where do we come from? What is our purpose? What will make us truly happy? Why is there evil in the world? How can we live life to the full? What happens after death? How are we supposed to deal with the challenges and sufferings of life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mankind has posed these questions throughout its turbulent history. They are the basic questions of the human mind, because they respond to the fundamental human need and desire to know the truth \u2014 not just a few individual truths, like the laws of physics and the contents of our neighbor\u2019s cupboards, but the truth, the way things are. Until we know that, or at least some key elements of it, we cannot be completely free to flourish as God means us to; our minds remain unfulfilled, groping in the dark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since human nature is always the same, these questions are always the same. Every epoch, every culture, every religion has to face them. We are compelled by our own nature to answer these questions somehow, for the good of our minds, just as we are compelled by our own nature to find food and shelter for the good of our bodies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Fullest Answer<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the real reason why the different religions seem so similar when they are looked at from certain perspectives: They all seek to give answers to the same basic questions that come with our fallen human nature. And some of the answers that the different religions and philosophies offer contain shards of the truth, because our minds are made to find truth, and we can indeed find some truth through sincere searching. St. Paul also made this point in his discussion about the wickedness of idolatry:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse. (Romans 1:20)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, if our own efforts were sufficient, Jesus would never have had to come to give us his revelation. Only in that revelation do we have access to the fullness of truth that we crave and are created for, the truth that will free us from darkness and allow us to live life abundantly, now and for all eternity:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, \u201cIf you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.\u201d (John 8:31\u201332)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the Catechism instructs us, human reason unaided by the light of revelation will always remain, at some level, frustrated (see CCC, 37-38). Learning to love God with all our mind \u2014 coming to know, understand, and accept deeply all that he has revealed to us about himself, ourselves, and the world \u2014 is the path out of that frustration. We cannot truly seek God\u2019s kingdom without following it.<\/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;\">Recall the time in your life when you first began to ask deeper questions. Are you still hungry for the truth that will set you free? Why or why not?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How well do you know the truths that God has revealed to you through Christ? Have you ever tried to explain the gospel to someone who hasn\u2019t heard it yet? If not, would you be able to do so?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Dominic, the medieval founder of the Dominican Order of Preachers, required a radical poverty from his first members. They weren\u2019t allowed to own anything at all, either individually or corporately. They were to travel by foot, spreading the gospel. The only exception to their extreme austerity was books. He wanted all his men to be able to take their books with them wherever they went so they could constantly renew and deepen their knowledge of God\u2019s saving Word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What will you do today to deepen your knowledge of God\u2019s revelation?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will make a list of questions I have about the faith and then make an appointment to talk to a priest or expert about them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will read the testimony of a non-Catholic who converted to Catholicism. (A resource for such testimonies is The Coming Home Network, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chnetwork.org\/converts\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.chnetwork.org\/converts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/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;\">Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of both sin and ignorance. Give me a sharp sense of understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations, and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in completion; through Christ our Lord. 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