An image of hope: a boy who has all the toys but doesn’t want to play because he will break them. Another can find dung and look for a horse.
St. Augustine says to be alive we need three things: to believe, to hope and to love.
What does hope consist? How are we saved in hope? How does hope not disappoint?
We have a basis better than the world, one that can’t be stolen or robbed. Faith gives us a new basis, a new foundation on which we built. There is already present within us the things we hope for. These truths of God are thus not only informative but performative. Hope gives an inner direction, promise of eternal life gives us out dignity.
Hope is born of love, I am loved, and whatever happens I am awaited for by the one who loves me. Hope is based in a happiness, but again not a happiness that can fade or end. Hope keeps life alive.
Hope then because a journey through many difficulties and eases. On that journey we are called to have patience. We blur past our lives, we need patience to keep us united and to look and see the world of frenetic haste.
On our journey we are called to leave ourselves and to seek the true meaning of life. It is with great joy that during the Christian’s journey of life, the Holy Spirit lights a lamp in the church to guide the way and to offer a period of intensifying out journey. We begin the Jubliee Year of Hope.
We are called in this year to intensify our pursuit and journey of hope in a world that has no hope because it has no God. We are called to look again, in a slower pace of life, at the things that give us true meaning and true dignity: eternal life.
First thing is again renewing our call to confession. Confession is the starting point of the journey we call metanoia which means a changing of our mind to follow him.
We seek pilgrimage during this time to Holy places. Not only to Rome and those places, but even near and far: every Cathedral and church is a holy place of pilgrimage.
Indulgences: We are offer indulgences when we visit holy sites and when we perform acts of charity.
Reach out to and honor and respect the life we have been given. This year of Jubilee 2025. End with the story of man in prison.