Day 7 Advent Reflection

Hope is the force that drives the hearts of those who depart, leaving home, their homeland, at times their relatives and families – I am thinking of the migrants – in search of a better life, one which is worthier of them and their loved ones. And it is also the impulse in the heart of those who welcome: the desire to encounter, to get to know each other, to dialogue. Hope is the force that drives us “to share the journey” because the journey is made jointly by those who come to our land and by us who go toward their heart, to understand them, to understand their culture and their language.

(~ Pope Francis, “A Light in the Night – Meditations on Hope.” (Jubilee 2025), Pandora’s Box)

He has come to the help of his servant Israel
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our ancestors,
to Abraham and his children forever. Amen