Hope Does Not Disappoint Us

Before the sadness and sorrow aroused by the terrorist attacks in London, we would like to join our Holy Father Benedict XVI, in offering “fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn”. While we condemn “these barbaric acts against humanity”, we are spiritually close to all people suffering at this time of grief.

In front of these atrocities, man cannot but cry out: “the world cannot be like this. We desire to build a better world”.
How is this possible? A human effort is not enough. Only hope sustains man in this desire. In front of death and hatred, man cannot do anything if there does not exist a Presence that has defeated death and evil and to Whom he can entrust his desire for life, his thirst for a meaning.

The events of 7 July ask each one of us to change, to become truer. We entrust ourselves to you, Holy Mary, “living fountain of hope”. May this living fountain of hope be every morning the most gripping and tenacious meaning of life possible.

Communion and Liberation