{"id":162662,"date":"2025-03-11T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=162662"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:08:37","slug":"our-ultimate-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/our-ultimate-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Ultimate Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"162662\" class=\"elementor elementor-162662\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63572ad1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"63572ad1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13b6ecba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13b6ecba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>Dear Friends<\/strong><b>,<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><em><br \/>Faith, Hope, and Love abide, these three\u2026 (1 Corinthians 13:13)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his <em>Ballad of Reading Gaol<\/em>, Oscar Wilde offered a pithy diagnosis: \u201cWe did not dare to breathe a prayer\/Or give our anguish scope\/Something was dead in each of us\/And what was dead was Hope.\u201d In our world there are many hopes: hopes for better houses, better cars and better jobs; hopes for health and eradication of illness; hope for happiness. These hopes are not wrong. But if they are not anchored in an ultimate Hope, in the end they are not enough. They wither and die.<\/p>\n<p>In his magnificent encyclical <em>Saved in Hope<\/em>, Pope Benedict XVI recalled the life of Blessed Josephine Bakhita, an enslaved Sudanese girl who suffered horrific trauma. When she discovered Christianity she discovered a new hope, a hope not bound by the circles of this world. As Pope Benedict put it, \u201cNow she had \u2018hope\u2019\u2014no longer simply the modest hope of finding masters who would be less cruel, but the great hope: \u2018I am definitively loved and whatever happens to me\u2014I am awaited by this Love. And so my life is good.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am definitively loved, and whatever happens to me\u2014I am awaited by this Love\u2026 And so my life is good. This is the theological virtue of hope, by which we desire God, our ultimate Hope, above all else. Each Christian received this hope at baptism; the Lord invites us to exercise it. And Lent is an especially apt moment to do precisely that.<\/p>\n<p>Every time we pray, we exercise hope. We are placing our hope not in immediate results but in our ultimate Hope, in the living God who loves us and hears us and is always acting for our good.<\/p>\n<p>Every time we fast, we exercise hope. We are praying with our bodies, telling the Lord that we long for him more than we long for the good things of this world.<\/p>\n<p>Every time we show mercy to others (the meaning of the word \u201calmsgiving\u201d), we exercise hope. We are sharing the Lord\u2019s desire that all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4), often through ways known only to him. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As we pray, as we fast and as we show mercy this Lent, perhaps these words from St. Paul provide a fitting inspiration: \u201cHope does not disappoint us, because God\u2019s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us\u201d (Romans 5:5). \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>God bless,<\/p>\n<p>Fr. 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He served as chaplain at Divine Mercy University in Virginia from 2014-2017, as superior of the Legionary community in Philadelphia from 2017-2020, and as a professor at the Legionaries of Christ College of Humanities in Cheshire from 2021-2023. Currently stationed in Northern Virginia, he serves as superior of the Legionary community based at Divine Mercy University (DMU) and teaches in DMU\u2019s spiritual direction program. His contributions to RCSpirituality include writing\u00a0Retreat Guides\u00a0and\u00a0RC Essays,\u00a0co-presenting podcasts at\u00a0Two Priests and a Mic,\u00a0and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/jpietropaoli\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162662"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=162662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}