We Have Been Given Hope
(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we have been given hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of which we can face our present: the present, even if it is arduous, can be lived and accepted if it leads toward a goal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal is great enough to justify the effort of the journey. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI