Hope

It's that most wonderful time of the year again and I wanted to share a few things with you.

Advent is a time of HOPE and I love what the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1817) says about it:

"Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life as our happiness...Relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit...Christian hope takes up and fulfills the hope of the chosen people which has its origin and model in the hope of Abraham, who was blessed abundantly by the promises of God fulfilled in Isaac, and who was purified by the test of the sacrifice. Paul'sLetter to the Romans says of Abraham that "hoping against hope, he believed, and thus became the father of many nations" (Rom 4:18).

And Psalm 56:9 "When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust without a fear. What can flesh do to me?...This I know, that God is for me."

May God's words fill you with consolation and strength. Keep your hope in Him.