{"id":173858,"date":"2025-08-12T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=173858"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:34:00","slug":"immortal-openness-to-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/immortal-openness-to-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Immortal Openness to God"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cWhom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever\u201d (Psalm 73:25-26). <\/em><\/p>\n

Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, which instantiated Communism in Russia and established what was perhaps history\u2019s first explicitly atheist regime, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats attempted to capture the spirit of the age. \u201cTurning and turning in the widening gyre\/The falcon cannot hear the falconer\/Things fall apart; the center cannot hold\/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold\u2026 It is, perhaps, still an apt expression for our fragmented society \u2013 and for our own quest for self-fulfillment. The more we try to hold things together by our own power, the more we realize how hopeless the endeavor truly is.<\/p>\n

Death, from one perspective, is the final falling apart. We lose control one last time: and this loss appears definitive. As Pope Benedict XVI described it, death is \u201cthe impossibility of giving oneself a foothold, the final collapse of self-determination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christ, however, is the one in whom all things hold together (Colossians 1:17). As we cede control to him, our hearts open to life and begin to flourish; and death loses its sting.<\/p>\n

Each August 15 the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Assumption to remind us of that truth. For in Mary, we see someone fully opened to the Lord. In Mary we see someone who surrendered everything to God; someone who, instead of shrieking, \u201cI want it my way!\u201d trustingly replied, \u201cLet it be done to me according to your word.\u201d Where that openness to God is present, the body\u2019s earthly life still ends, but eternal life, body and soul united in the glory of God, is assured.<\/p>\n

Things do indeed fall apart, but we can choose our response. We can clutch and grasp to the bitter end, or we can surrender everything to the God who loves us.\u00a0 And in that daily letting go, which is a very real sort of death, we enter more deeply into the mystery of Mary\u2019s Assumption as the fulfillment of God\u2019s promise and the joyful auspice of our own calling to eternal life.<\/p>\n

God bless you,<\/em><\/p>\n

Fr. John Pietropaoli
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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\/173858","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=173858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173858"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=173858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}