EVENING PRAYER

Merciful Lord,let the evening prayer of your Churchcome before you.May we do your work faithfully;free us from sinand make us secure in your love.We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,God, for ever and ever.— Amen. (Liturgy of the Hours)

HOPE as an Anchor.

All of us, brothers and sisters, are in great need of hope, which is not optimism; no, it is something else. We need hope. Hope is depicted as an anchor, there at the shore, and in clinging to its rope, we move toward hope. We need hope, we need to lift our gaze to horizons…

HOPE is born of Love…

Hope is born of love and based on the love springing from the pierced heart of Jesus upon the cross: “For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life” (Rom 5:19). That life becomes…