Do not let hope be stolen

The Pope last Sunday at his audience explained that Jesus is our friend, our brother and thus a Christian can never be sad. “Our joy comes from having encountered a person, Jesus. (…)We accompany, we follow Jesus, but above all we know that he accompanies us and carries us on his shoulders. This is our joy, this is the hope we must bring to this world of ours. Let us bring the joy of the faith to everyone! Please do not yourselves be robbed of hope! Do not let hope be stolen! (…)Jesus on the cross feels the full weight of evil and with the force of God’s love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection. The Cross of Christ embraced with love never leads to sadness, but to joy, the joy of being saved and do a little what he did that day of his death.”

I asked myself how can I bring that hope. Loving one neighbour at a time by exercising patience and all the qualities of love with them, we enter into communion with the whole of humanity and really give our lives to God, who will take them where they are needed. It is the communion of saints. It is also a way of contemplation because, as Chiara writes, "just as one of a billion hosts is needed to nourish us on God, so is just the one brother/sister, that the will of God puts next to us sufficient - to communicate with Jesus is mystically present in the whole of humanity.”