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Faith, hope and charity (2)
Hope is the virtue by which we seek the happiness of Heaven and place our trust in God giving us eternal life and the means to attain it and not relying on our own strength but on the help of the Holy Spirit.
1. Bases of Hope
- Hope is based on the promise of God of the glory of Heaven to those who love Him and do His will.
- Therefore, in every circumstance, each one of us should hope with the grace of God to persevere “to the end”.
2. Examples of Hope
- In the moment of temptation think of the Love that awaits you in Heaven; foster the virtue of hope – San Josemaria Escriva
- O Sinner – grown in sin, embedded to wickedness, despair not. To encourage you to greater confidence. God has provided you with a mediatrix, who, by her prayers obtains whatever she wills. Go, then have recourse to Mary, and you will be saved. -- St. Bernard
- Those who have sinned must not despair. Let that never be. For we are condemned not for the multitude of evils but because we do not want to repent and learn the miracles of Christ – St. Mark the Ascetic
- When tempted to despair. I have only one recourse: to throw myself at the foot of the tabernacle like a little dog at the foot of his master. - St. John Vianney
- So, rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulations and afflictions. Hope is expressed in prayer, especially in Our Father, the summary of everything that hope leads to desire. - Cathechism of the Catholic Church
3. Opposite of Hope is Despair which is a Sin. Do not despair for even in a suicide there is still hope. Who knows that between the bridge and the river, the suicide had in a brief moment asked sincere forgiveness from God and God in His infinite mercy granted his prayers?