{"id":99835,"date":"2026-02-10T00:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setonshrine.org\/?p=99835"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:39:15","slug":"un-amor-mas-grande-frente-a-la-cuaresma-con-madre-seton-y-santa-escolastica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setonshrine.org\/es\/a-greater-love-facing-lent-with-mother-seton-and-saint-scholastica\/","title":{"rendered":"Un amor m\u00e1s grande: Afrontar la Cuaresma con la Madre Seton y Santa Escol\u00e1stica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Falta menos de un mes para la Cuaresma. Eso significa penitencia, abstinencia, sufrimiento.<\/p>\n

O eso podr\u00edamos pensar.<\/p>\n

If thinking about Lent this year is making you feel down, oppressed\u2014like all those practices and sacrifices are just another thing to \u201cdo\u201d on top of everything else\u2014it is time for a reboot.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s return to the basics. Lent is the preparation for Easter. It is the heart\u2019s oblation, the winnowing away of all that holds us back from Easter joy. And Easter is the offering of Christ\u2019s unimaginable life to us.<\/p>\n

Pero tenemos ya<\/em> received that life in us at baptism\u2014which means that Lent is about discovering a gift that is already given, something that is happening in our lives here and now. It is about encountering Christ who gives himself to us today.<\/p>\n

Y la respuesta m\u00e1s natural a este don es la oraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Pero, \u00bfy la oraci\u00f3n? \u00bfTambi\u00e9n te parece dif\u00edcil? \u00bfEs abrumador? \u00bfUna tarea?<\/p>\n

Remember when you first fell in love? Was it \u201cwork\u201d to talk to that person, \u201cwork\u201d to find time for them? Prayer is being with the One whom you love. So, if prayer is work, then we need to take one step back from that, too. We have to go inside ourselves to listen to the cry of the heart. We have to discover our need for Christ.<\/p>\n

Such need was the driving force for Scholastica, the sister of the great monastic founder, Saint Benedict\u2014and that is practically all we know about her, the one little story that illustrates her entire life.<\/p>\n

As Saint Gregory the Great tells it, Scholastica lived in a convent quite close to her brother\u2019s famous monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy. Once a year, brother and sister would meet for a day of spiritual conversation in a little house in between.<\/p>\n

La \u00faltima vez que lo hicieron, poco antes de morir Escol\u00e1stica, ella, tal vez presintiendo su pr\u00f3xima muerte, rog\u00f3 a su hermano que se quedara m\u00e1s tiempo de lo normal, para hablar con ella hasta bien entrada la noche. Pero Benito insisti\u00f3 en que deb\u00eda irse. La regla mon\u00e1stica (la misma que \u00e9l escribi\u00f3) estipulaba que no deb\u00eda estar fuera del recinto del monasterio despu\u00e9s del anochecer.<\/p>\n

When she heard these words, Scholastica leaned her head forward on her hands and prayed. Suddenly, a thunderstorm blew up that was so violent that there was no way Benedict could leave the hut. He turned to his sister in his irritation. \u201cGod forgive you, what have you done?\u201d he asked her. And she replied, \u201cI desired you to stay, and you would not hear me; I have desired it of our good Lord, and he has granted my petition.\u201d Benedict was stuck, and he remained the rest of the night and talked with Scholastica.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on this, Gregory concedes that the miracle wrought by Scholastica in that moment was greater than what Benedict could do. And the reason why? \u201cGod is love\u201d and \u201cshe who loved more, did more.\u201d<\/p>\n

But how precisely did Scholastica best her brother in love? I don\u2019t think we can make this about \u201cpeople versus rules,\u201d as though Scholastica\u2019s desire for time together with her brother trumped Benedict\u2019s sense of attachment to the rules of the monastery. After all, the Benedictine Rule was nothing if not a way to form men and women in charity.<\/p>\n

No, creo que aqu\u00ed pasa algo diferente. A lo que tenemos que prestar atenci\u00f3n es a c\u00f3mo resuelve los problemas Escol\u00e1stica. \u00bfEn qu\u00e9 encuentra su fuerza? En un momento en el que quiere pasar m\u00e1s tiempo con su hermano, no se lanza sobre Benedicto para que le d\u00e9 lo que quiere, sino que busca una respuesta en la oraci\u00f3n. Consulta su propio coraz\u00f3n y lanza un grito a Aquel que la ama.<\/p>\n

Saints are those who confess their raw need, who cry out constantly for the love of God. This is the motivating force, the energy that drives them. It is this poverty that draws God\u2019s mercy upon them, as suddenly and swiftly as that thunderstorm blew in.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting that our first canonized American saint was an impoverished widow who was, historically speaking, flanked by powerful men who were overseeing dioceses and founding educational institutions. But Elizabeth is the one whom God graced. A poor woman with mouths to feed was the vessel for God\u2019s love, communicated through her charity then and radiated even today by the sisters who are her spiritual daughters.<\/p>\n

All of this came from Elizabeth\u2019s seeking the Lord. The source of her sanctity was the unfailing, almost crazy, desire she had for him. It is the constant theme of her life and her writing.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth, like Scholastica, shows us the way. You can\u2019t meet these women without being struck by their desire, this relentless energy directed at the One who made them and loves them.<\/p>\n

This Lent, let\u2019s follow them. Do we know this love to be the center of our existence? And if not, what is standing in the way?<\/p>\n

LISA LICKONA, STL,\u00a0is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Saint Bernard\u2019s School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, New York, and a nationally-known speaker and writer. She is the mother of eight children<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Esta reflexi\u00f3n se public\u00f3 anteriormente. Pulse aqu\u00ed<\/a> para ver todas las Reflexiones Seton.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n puede escuchar esta reflexi\u00f3n\u00a0en nuestra p\u00e1gina Podcast.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Imagen:\u00a0Sainte Scholastique, Franz Joseph Stoeber<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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