{"id":173786,"date":"2025-07-08T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=173786"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:05:02","slug":"strength-through-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/strength-through-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength Through Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"173786\" class=\"elementor elementor-173786\" 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>Hello Everyone,<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>I will not fail you or forsake you\u2026 Be strong and of good courage\u2026For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go (Joshua 1:6-9).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord! (Psalm 27:13-14).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Evelyn Waugh\u2019s extraordinary novel, <em>Brideshead Revisited<\/em>, Lord Marchmain, a lapsed Catholic, approaches death and has \u201cno strength other than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.\u201d Observing this, Charles Ryder comments to the doctor, \u201cHe\u2019s got a wonderful will to live, hasn\u2019t he?\u201d The doctor, however, disagrees: \u201cWould you put it like that? I should say a great fear of death.\u201d Perplexed, Charles responds, \u201cIs there a difference?\u201d \u201cOh dear, yes,\u201d the doctor replies. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t derive any strength from his fear, you know. It\u2019s wearing him out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fear, an aversion of one\u2019s whole being to danger, is a natural emotion. We should be afraid of some things. But because of Original Sin\u2019s effects on us, we tend to fear the wrong things or to fear in the wrong way. Fearing the wrong things or fearing in the wrong way saps our strength because it\u2019s an attempt to live alone, under our own power. We don\u2019t want to lose what we think we have. We don\u2019t want to surrender our spurious control, even to God. Therefore, the fear of death is a summary of all our fears.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t have to be that way. The Letter to the Hebrews puts it like this: \u201c<em>[Christ] himself partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage<\/em>\u201d (Hebrews 2:14-15). \u00a0In other words, our participation in Christ\u2019s suffering, death, and resurrection through Baptism means that we no longer live for ourselves, and we no longer die for ourselves. \u201c<em>Whether we live or die, we are the Lord\u2019s<\/em>\u201d (Romans 14:8).<\/p>\n<p>If we live in fear, we derive no strength from our fear. It wears us out. But when we share it with the Lord, when we open our fear to his powerful and loving presence, something begins to shift. \u201cCourage,\u201d the old saw says, \u201cis simply fear that has said its prayers.\u201d What am I most afraid of? What, perhaps, is wearing me out? 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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\/173786","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=173786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173786"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=173786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}