Homily for Thursday of the 2nd Week of Lent

“Blessed are they who hope in the LORD.”

Hope is a very important thing in our faith lives and in our everyday lives. When hope is there, even when all else seems lost, we have a reason to keep going; we have a reason to think that things will get better.

God gives us the gifts of faith, hope, and love. Even when faith and love seem absent, hope keeps our eyes fixed on God, trusting that even when all seems lost, it will all be brought together again in us by the mercy and providence of God.

May this season of Lent, then, be a season of hope; hope that God is always with us to guide us and to give us all that we truly need.+