Living With Hope

Is our hope in ourselves or is it in Christ? Dave “I’ll lift weights in your living room” VanVickle and I discuss the importance of the theological virtue of hope as we journey towards Christ and help others encounter him as well.

We are pilgrims on earth and citizens of heaven, our ultimate hope is eternal life in Christ.

“Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” -Romans 5:1-5

Practical Takeaways

1. Read and pray with the Catechism’s definition of the virtue of hope. The teaching can be found in CCC 1817-1821.
2. Pray a daily act of hope.
3. Do an examination of conscience based on the virtue of hope.
4. Read Spes Salvi (Saved in Hope), Benedict VXI, encyclical, 2007
5. Say a special prayer to end the persecution of Christians in China.

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