Lenten Retreat 2011, Talk 3 of 6

Lenten Spiritual Retreat 2011, Talk 3 of 6: Hope and the new logic Christ brought to the world. In the Sermon on the Mountain, Jesus invites us to seek God “in the secret.” Then, in the Our Father, he teaches us to invoke God as our “Father in heaven.” The relationship between each one’s “secret” (conscience) and heaven suggests that we are to be good for the sake of goodness and not in order to receive a visible reward. Hope, true hope, is based on this new “logic” in which the language of grace wins over the language of strict “trade.”