Hope, the theme for the Jubilee of 2025, opens the door to a certain evangelical realism. There is today a great need for hope, because this new culture we live in causes people to experience fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. This can lead to feelings of desperation if people are not properly supported. Humanity needs to hear a message that restores the certainty of true hope.
Jubilee of Hope is an invitation to be strong in a faith that supports hope. Christian hope does not deceive or disappoint because it is grounded in the certainty that nothing and no one may ever separate us from God's love.
To live the Jubilee year well, we must delve deeper into the virtue of hope and foster hope for the pastoral renewal of our communities.
Pages | 176 |
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Copyright | 2024 |
ISBN | 978-1-63966-323-1 |
Item | T2967 |
Prophet of Hope places Sheen in dialogue with eight of the leading thinkers of his day — John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Henry Luce, Margaret Mead, B. F. Skinner, Jack Kerouac, Betty Friedan, and Michael Harrington — showing how he confronted the key philosophical, psychological, economic, and societal issues facing the world in his time. Drawing on his radio broadcasts, television show, and writings, this book presents Sheen grappling with the influences that shaped modern culture, including atheism, isolation, cynicism, anxiety, and despair. His prophetic voice of hope still resonates today.
Sr. Josephine Garrett, CSFN, is a woman full of hope, and she's here to help you uncover authentic hope in your life, too. What she offers is real hope - not wishing on a shooting star or hoping you win the lottery, but the messy and risky kind. She also takes an unflinching look at the painful parts of hope, our struggles with hope, and our labors in hope.
Throughout the history of the Catholic Church, in her most troubled and turbulent times, God has raised up great saints as beacons of hope in the midst of darkness. Among these great saints, the four women doctors of the Church stand out as models of courage, wisdom, and trust and are relevant to the challenges of our own day.
In giving us his Son, the Father has given us the very mystery of prayer, of the possibility of praying — that is, of entering into real communion with him. Prayer, in its deepest core, is nothing other than our welcoming of this desire of God to be with each of us personally, to give us himself, to make us participants in his life.