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William Zambrano MD
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(Rom 5:3-5) And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience trial; and trial hope; And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.
POPE LEO XIV: “Perhaps at times more prominence is given to the virtues of faith and charity; yet, hope has a vital role on our earthly pilgrimage”.
BULL OF INDICTION OF THE ORDINARY JUBILEE OF THE YEAR 2025: SPES NON CONFUNDIT
CERC: Living in Hope: Saints Joachim and Anne
MARK MALLET BLOG: True Hope
Knowing something of the future is not so much a matter of hope but of bolstering your faith, of seeing with your own eyes that God’s Word is true and, therefore, you need only put your trust in Him, especially when these things begin to unfold. But faith in God has to go deeper than mere intellectual assent if it is to generate hope. It has to take me into the heart, into the “interior life” where I encounter the indwelling Trinity. Through a life of prayer, that is, conversation, listening to God’s Word, pouring my heart out before Him and letting Him respond — in other words, genuine friendship — I encounter Him. And in that encounter of truth, mercy, forgiveness, instruction, and especially love, hope is renewed, it grows, its light overcomes the darkness and divine strength flows where there was once weakness. And this hope should ultimately overflow into charity toward those around us.
ANTONIO CARDINAL BACCI MEDITATION: The Mystery of Life
1. “Life,” said the poet Tommaseo, “is only a remembrance, a hope, and a passing moment.” How true this is. This life which preoccupies us so much is only a point of time which continually passes and evades us. We live on memories and on hopes, but in reality our life is no more than an elusive period of time flowing into the ocean of eternity.
Yesterday we did not exist, and tomorrow we shall be no more. Yesterday God called us forth from nothingness, and tomorrow He will summon us from this fleeting existence in order to reward or punish us in eternity. It is the great mystery of life that so much depends on a vanishing moment of time. We have two alternatives. We can direct our course in life towards God, in which case we shall one day be happy with Him forever. Or we can travel in the opposite direction in pursuit of sensual satisfaction and transitory worldly success, in which case we shall one day be rejected by God and shall be doomed to everlasting unhappiness. Let us reflect on the importance of our choice.
2. We know that the past can never return and that the future is so uncertain that it may not even exist for us. We realise that our life is nothing more than a passing moment. If we meditate on these truths, how can we be attached to worldly objects? Even if we could attain the objects of our desire, they would soon be snatched away from us. Let us aim at those lasting values which are not passing, which can remain with us during life, comfort us at death, and accompany us into eternity. We know what these substantial values are - holiness, the grace of God, the conquest of our sensible appetites, and the final enjoyment of God in Heaven. These things do not pass away, but will remain with us forever.
3. These reflections reveal to us the transience of this life and make sorrows and hardship seem easier to endure, and even welcome if we know how to offer them to God. What difference will the sufferings of a past existence make? What will remain tomorrow of the trials which we have encountered today? Only a consoling memory, as long as we have offered them to God. Let us examine all our affections, desires and sufferings in the light of eternity. Viewed in that relationship, they can all become a source of self-sanctification.
Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 2- "On Detachment"
1. The man who really loves the Lord, who has made a real effort to find the future Kingdom, who is really pained by his sins, who is really mindful of eternal torment and judgment, who really lives in fear of his own departure, will not love, care or worry about money, or possessions, or parents, or worldly glory, or friends, or brothers or anything at all on earth.
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August 11, 2025(Rom 5:3-5) And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience trial; and trial hope; And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.
POPE LEO XIV: “Perhaps at times more prominence is given to the virtues of faith and charity; yet, hope has a vital role on our earthly pilgrimage”.
BULL OF INDICTION OF THE ORDINARY JUBILEE OF THE YEAR 2025: SPES NON CONFUNDIT
CERC: Living in Hope: Saints Joachim and Anne
MARK MALLET BLOG: True Hope
Knowing something of the future is not so much a matter of hope but of bolstering your faith, of seeing with your own eyes that God’s Word is true and, therefore, you need only put your trust in Him, especially when these things begin to unfold. But faith in God has to go deeper than mere intellectual assent if it is to generate hope. It has to take me into the heart, into the “interior life” where I encounter the indwelling Trinity. Through a life of prayer, that is, conversation, listening to God’s Word, pouring my heart out before Him and letting Him respond — in other words, genuine friendship — I encounter Him. And in that encounter of truth, mercy, forgiveness, instruction, and especially love, hope is renewed, it grows, its light overcomes the darkness and divine strength flows where there was once weakness. And this hope should ultimately overflow into charity toward those around us.
ANTONIO CARDINAL BACCI MEDITATION: The Mystery of Life
1. “Life,” said the poet Tommaseo, “is only a remembrance, a hope, and a passing moment.” How true this is. This life which preoccupies us so much is only a point of time which continually passes and evades us. We live on memories and on hopes, but in reality our life is no more than an elusive period of time flowing into the ocean of eternity.
Yesterday we did not exist, and tomorrow we shall be no more. Yesterday God called us forth from nothingness, and tomorrow He will summon us from this fleeting existence in order to reward or punish us in eternity. It is the great mystery of life that so much depends on a vanishing moment of time. We have two alternatives. We can direct our course in life towards God, in which case we shall one day be happy with Him forever. Or we can travel in the opposite direction in pursuit of sensual satisfaction and transitory worldly success, in which case we shall one day be rejected by God and shall be doomed to everlasting unhappiness. Let us reflect on the importance of our choice.
2. We know that the past can never return and that the future is so uncertain that it may not even exist for us. We realise that our life is nothing more than a passing moment. If we meditate on these truths, how can we be attached to worldly objects? Even if we could attain the objects of our desire, they would soon be snatched away from us. Let us aim at those lasting values which are not passing, which can remain with us during life, comfort us at death, and accompany us into eternity. We know what these substantial values are - holiness, the grace of God, the conquest of our sensible appetites, and the final enjoyment of God in Heaven. These things do not pass away, but will remain with us forever.
3. These reflections reveal to us the transience of this life and make sorrows and hardship seem easier to endure, and even welcome if we know how to offer them to God. What difference will the sufferings of a past existence make? What will remain tomorrow of the trials which we have encountered today? Only a consoling memory, as long as we have offered them to God. Let us examine all our affections, desires and sufferings in the light of eternity. Viewed in that relationship, they can all become a source of self-sanctification.
Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 2- "On Detachment"
1. The man who really loves the Lord, who has made a real effort to find the future Kingdom, who is really pained by his sins, who is really mindful of eternal torment and judgment, who really lives in fear of his own departure, will not love, care or worry about money, or possessions, or parents, or worldly glory, or friends, or brothers or anything at all on earth.
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