|
Click here to go back to the archive menu.
| |
| Hope |
| |
|
‘Christ my hope’ means that all my yearnings for goodness find in him a real possibility of fulfillment; with him I can hope for a life that is good, full, and eternal, for God himself has drawn near to us, even sharing our humanity.
|
|
Urbi et Orbi
Easter Sunday
St Peter's Square
8 April 2012
|
| |
|
| |
| Hope |
| |
|
Although the dominant culture of relativism all around us has given up on the search for truth, even if it is the highest aspiration of the human spirit, we need to speak with courage and humility of the universal significance of Christ as the Savior of humanity and the source of hope for our lives.
|
|
Address
World Youth Day Prayer Vigil
Madrid, Spain
20th August 2011
|
| |
|
| |
| Hope |
| |
|
It is not always easy to see the light of the Spirit all about us, the splendor of the Risen Lord illuminating our lives and instilling renewed hope in his victory over the world (cf. Jn 16:33).Yet the word of God reminds us that, in faith, we see the heavens opened, and the grace of the Holy Spirit lighting up the Church and bringing sure hope to our world.
|
|
Homily
St Patrick's Cathedral
New York
19 April 2008
|
| |
|
| |
| Hope |
| |
|
Knowing how to wait, while patiently enduring trials, is necessary for the believer to be able to “receive what is promised”…
In the New Testament this expectation of God, this standing with God, takes on a new significance: in Christ, God has revealed himself. He has already communicated to us the “substance” of things to come, and thus the expectation of God acquires a new certainty.
|
|
Encyclical Letter
'Spe Salvi'
|
| |
|
| |
| Hope |
| |
|
We need the greater and lesser hopes that keep us going day by day. But these are not enough without the great hope, which must surpass everything else. This great hope can only be God, who encompasses the whole of reality and who can bestow upon us what we, by ourselves, cannot attain.
|
|
Encyclical Letter
'Spe Salvi'
|
| |
|
| |
| Hope |
| |
|
Human hope goes beyond the legitimate expectations of social and political liberation because what Jesus began is a new humanity that comes "from God" but, at the same, time germinates on our earth, to the extent that it lets itself be fertilized by the Lord's Spirit. Thus it is a question of fully entering the logic of faith: believing in God, in his plan of salvation, and at the same time, striving to build his Kingdom. Justice and peace are in fact gifts of God, but require men and women to be the "good ground" ready to receive the good seed of his Word.
|
|
Angelus Address
St Peter's Square
7 December 2008
|
| |
|
| |
| Hope |
| |
|
Man's great, true hope which holds firm in spite of all disappointments can only be God—God who has loved us and who continues to love us “to the end,” until all “is accomplished” (cf. Jn 13:1 and 19:30).
|
|
Encyclical Letter
'Spe Salvi'
|
| |
|
| |
| Hope |
| |
|
Man is worth so much to God that he himself became man in order to suffer with man in an utterly real way—in flesh and blood—as is revealed to us in the account of Jesus' Passion. Hence in all human suffering we are joined by one who experiences and carries that suffering with us; hence con-solatio is present in all suffering, the consolation of God's compassionate love—and so the star of hope rises.
|
|
Encyclical Letter
on Christian Hope
'Spe Salvi'
|
| |
|
<< Back
1
2
3
4
5
6
More >>
|
