Got Hope?

It what must be in the running for “the understatement of the season,” we are passing through the most difficult, unique, and somewhat frightening Easter Season ever! Today’s Scriptures include the line from the First Letter of St. Peter: “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope.” A probing question today is: how is our hope?

St. John Paul II reflected on the theme of hope and came up with this: “It is Jesus that we seek when we dream of happiness. Jesus is waiting for us when nothing else we find satisfies us. Jesus is the beauty to which we are so attracted. It is Jesus who provokes in us that thirst for fullness that will not let us settle for compromise. It is Jesus who urges us to shed the façade of a false life. It is Jesus who reads in our hearts our most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in us the desire to do something great with our life, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow ourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit ourselves humbly and patiently to improving ourselves and society with the aim toward the common good, making the world more human and more loving.”

Got hope? Yes! Want more? Yes! Well, then let’s hang in there, together, with Jesus, the source of our hope!

Thank you to our essential ministers at Mass this weekend: Ursula Cawley (reader); Steve and Greg Thomas (sacristans); Bob Kerns (camera/audiovisual); RJ Tagorda (computer/audiovisual); Anna Lageson-Kerns (music leader); Mark Iven (vocals); and Eric Boughton (piano/vocals).

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