If it is true that the Epiphany takes away all the holidays, this year the Jubilee also goes away with it. With all its events, meetings, occasions, with Rome a crossroads of people from everywhere, and with lots of traffic and construction sites… We return to normality, which is the melancholy, oppressed, bored, desperate, at times excited, or predictable, grey, distracted daily life; or normality is reality transformed by the salvation of a present God, loved and understood in his beauty, in his gratuitousness.
With more or less consciousness the recurrence of this word, Jubileeput a little joy back into my heart. He reminded us that we can always be grateful, that there is a reason to look up and start again. It was the Jubilee of hope and hope doesn’t go away on January 6th.
“Hope does not disappoint us,” St. Paul tells us, “because the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Spirit who has been given to us.”
Hope is not a superstitious sigh about the fate that awaits us, who knows, maybe, fingers crossed. Hope must rest on a certainty or it is an illusion, a deception.
Hope is there redemptionit is God made man, child, and then dead and resurrected, who promises us the Eternal. Only this can save wounded humanity and my poor life. Only in Him can we hope.
The Jubilee of Hope brought back the name of Christ in the world: the anchor to hold onto our fragilities. We can pretend and look the other way, or remember it and drink from that certain hope.
“To hope one must have received a great grace,” writes Péguy in his Mysteries. And by the mystery of an election, this grace was given to us, with the responsibility of bringing our hope to the world.
As the morning prayer says, which many years ago we learned in catechism: «I adore you my God… I thank you for having created me and made me a Christian». This is grace, this is the source of our hope.
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