Saturday, July 1, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 308 - Part I.
(Youcat answer) Hope is the power by
which we firmly and constantly long for what we were placed on earth to do: to
praise God and to serve him; and for our true happiness, which is finding our
fulfillment in God; and for our final home: in God.
A deepening
through CCC
(CCC 1817) Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the
kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in
Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the
grace of the Holy Spirit. "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
without wavering, for he who promised is faithful" (Heb 10:23). "The
Holy Spirit… he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so
that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal
life" (Titus 3:6-7).
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment) Hope is
trusting in what God has promised us in creation, in the prophets, but
especially in Jesus Christ, even though we do not yet see it. God’s Holy Spirit
is given to us so that we can patiently hope for the Truth.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 1818) The
virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in
the heart of every man; it takes up the hopes that inspire men's activities and
purifies them so as to order them to the Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man from
discouragement; it sustains him during times of abandonment; it opens up his
heart in expectation of eternal beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved
from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from charity.
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