{"id":165946,"date":"2025-04-08T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=165946"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:01:53","slug":"a-cross-shaped-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/a-cross-shaped-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cross-Shaped Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"165946\" class=\"elementor elementor-165946\" 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<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Dear Friends<\/strong><b>,<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Faith, Hope, and Love abide, these three\u2026<\/em> (1 Corinthians 13:13)<br \/><br \/>Love, in the end, is always cruciform. Perhaps that\u2019s what T.S. Eliot means in his<br \/>magnificent Four Quartets when he observes: \u201cTo apprehend\/The point of<br \/>intersection of the timeless\/With time, is an occupation for the saint\/No occupation<br \/>either, but something given\/And taken, in a lifetime&#8217;s death in love\/Ardour and<br \/>selflessness and self-surrender.\u201d<br \/><br \/>No matter how hard we seek substitutes, only this sort of love satisfies. No matter<br \/>how much we flee a cross-shaped love, peace will elude us until we accept it. And<br \/>the first step to acceptance is to ponder the mystery of God\u2019s love for us, the God<br \/>who loves us and gives himself for us.<br \/><br \/>St John puts it well. \u201cIn this is love, not that we have loved God but that he has<br \/>loved us and sent his Son to be the atonement for our sins\u201d (1 John 4:10). In other<br \/>words, we can love with a cruciform love because first, last, and always, we are<br \/>loved that way by God.<br \/><br \/>As the holiest days of the year draw near, the Church invites us to contemplate this<br \/>overwhelming love, to accept it, and to respond. I can think of no better expression<br \/>than St. Anthony of Padua\u2019s &#8220;Sermones Dominicales et Festivi&#8221; in which he writes:<br \/>\u201cChrist who is your life is hanging before you, so that you may look at the Cross as<br \/>in a mirror\u2026 If you look closely, you will be able to realize how great your human<br \/>dignity and value are\u2026 Nowhere other than looking at himself in the mirror of the<br \/>Cross can man better understand how much he is worth.\u201d<br \/><br \/>And by God\u2019s grace that understanding will lead to acceptance, and that<br \/>acceptance will lead to response, so that we, too, can love God and others with a<br \/>cross-shaped love.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>God bless,<\/p>\n<p>Fr. John Pietropaoli<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkAb19jdHDmifJbs9WHa_Ozx5VIGOhyIh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Two Priests and a Mic podcaster<\/em><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, &nbsp; Faith, Hope, and Love abide, these three\u2026 (1 Corinthians 13:13) Love, in the end, is always cruciform. Perhaps that\u2019s what T.S. 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He served as chaplain at Divine Mercy University in Virginia from 2014-2017, as superior of the Legionary community in Philadelphia from 2017-2020, and as a professor at the Legionaries of Christ College of Humanities in Cheshire from 2021-2023. Currently stationed in Northern Virginia, he serves as superior of the Legionary community based at Divine Mercy University (DMU) and teaches in DMU\u2019s spiritual direction program. His contributions to RCSpirituality include writing\u00a0Retreat Guides\u00a0and\u00a0RC Essays,\u00a0co-presenting podcasts at\u00a0Two Priests and a Mic,\u00a0and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/jpietropaoli\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165946"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=165946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}