{"id":178719,"date":"2025-10-21T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=178719"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:10:39","slug":"keeping-it-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/keeping-it-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping it Real"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"178719\" class=\"elementor elementor-178719\" 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><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">A framed print hangs in my office of Mother Teresa and her quote, \u201cSacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty us of ourselves.\u201d I love Mother Teresa, but I often pass this frame, smile at her face, and twinge a bit from the words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a mission to Haiti, we traveled to a remote village suffering from a cholera outbreak. I\u2019ve never before or since seen a people who endured so much suffering coupled with such extreme poverty. The locals were severely malnourished following their country\u2019s crippling by a major earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>An image that stayed with me for years from that mission is of a young mother nursing her baby in the clinic\u2019s courtyard. The mother was completely emaciated and nearing the end of her own life from starvation. She was not feeding her child from her surplus; she was feeding her from her need. The baby, just as emaciated, was depleting what scarce nutrients the mother had left.\u00a0 This was love. Pure sacrificial love and, by Mother Teresa\u2019s standards, \u201creal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some reading this might be in a situation similar to the mother above. I pray for your perseverance. Most of us are probably not. So I ask myself, where is the Lord inviting me to make real sacrifices?\u00a0 Perhaps it looks more like visiting my mother in memory care for longer visits, repeating the same sentence ten times every five minutes, despite having hours of office work awaiting my return. Perhaps it looks like skipping a much-anticipated date night to watch my grandkids so my kids can have a night out. Or perhaps, its joyfully sliding to the middle of the pew between elderly couples whose hearing aids whistle all Mass, interrupting the sacred silence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am certain we all have moments when the Lord invites us to make real sacrifices; sacrifices that empty us of what we want, to love others more deeply. Sacrifice is not about giving from our surplus\u2014it\u2019s about giving from our need. 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