A Father Who Keeps His Promises by Scott Hahn

Often we can focus on the “how” of being Catholic and forget the “why.” Why do I have to go to Mass on Sunday? Why is it important to be properly disposed before receiving Holy Communion? Why does the Catholic Church care about abortion or same-sex marriage? The entirety of the Catholic Church can be summed up by one word: Love. All we believe and do comes from an infinitely deep and wide love, namely God, who is Love itself. In his book, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture, Dr. Scott Hahn helps unpack the unfathomable gift of salvation God desires to bestow on us. Starting with the Garden of Eden, the Lord has wanted to be closer to us than we are to ourselves. That is why he made a covenant with us. A covenant, being an exchange of persons, is the most intimate relationship we can have with someone. It is so powerfully uniting that death is the only way to break it. That is why the Sacrament of Marriage lasts “until death do us part.” And God, the Creator of the Universe, Goodness, and Being itself, desired to have that kind of relationship with us. He was willing to put his own life on the line to have the chance to love us. But humanity rejected God and chose to go their way. When proposed to by the Creator of the Universe, we said no. Thankfully, this rejection did not deter the Divine Lover who pursued us through all of history, culminating in giving his own life to be with us on the Cross. Dr. Hahn’s book presents a rejected God who continually pursues his creation. What will our response be?