{"id":177499,"date":"2025-09-09T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=177499"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:20:09","slug":"wait-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wait-and-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait\u2026 And Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"177499\" class=\"elementor elementor-177499\" 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-3d6f9c2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3d6f9c2\" 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-e844e9a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e844e9a\" 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 class=\"ai-optimize-6\">Dear Friends,<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\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).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Toward the end of <em>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>, Edmond Dant\u00e9s offers sage advice: \u201cNever forget that, until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: \u2018wait\u2019 and \u2018hope.\u2019\u201d If that is human wisdom, this is because it\u2019s first divine wisdom, expressed throughout God\u2019s Word in various ways.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast this with the attitude of Babel\u2019s builders, repeated often throughout history: \u201cCome, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth\u201d (Genesis 11:4). Each person\u2019s history also carries this inheritance of sin. It is difficult to wait for God. It is difficult to trust him. We don\u2019t want to rely on God; we would often prefer to earn our own way. We want not trust, but control.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when the Lord finds someone willing to wait and hope, his gentle omnipotence works new wonders. Each September we celebrate the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows; each September we recall Our Lady faithfully waiting and hoping at the foot of the Cross, trusting that, somehow, God\u2019s promise would be fulfilled and that \u201cof her Son\u2019s kingdom there would be no end\u201d (Luke 1:33).<\/p>\n<p>Mary reminds us, too, that this is no stoic resignation, but rather active receptivity of the very highest order: \u201cLet it be done to me according to your word.\u201d In this waiting and this hoping, the expression of her acceptance of God\u2019s loving plan, Our Lady cooperates in the redemption of the entire world \u2013 at that moment she is already Mother of the Church and Queen of Apostles.<\/p>\n<p>What might that mean for me? 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