In hope we are saved

“For in hope we were saved. Now hope that sees for itself is not hope. For who hopes for what one sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait with endurance.” (ROM 8: 24-25)

Someone called the three virtues—faith, hope and love—sisters. And the smallest one, in the middle of the two big ones, is hope. But she is the one who leads her bigger sisters. Neither love nor faith can help when there is no hope, who gives us strength to “wait with endurance.”

“Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom.” (Gospel Acclamation)