A 5th Sunday after Pentecost Thought About Our Blessed Mother
We continue with our Sunday thoughts about Our Blessed Mother. Father Leen remains our sure guide. Here we find an important connection between Mary and Hope. Hope is one of the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope , and Charity. If you think about it, the first and last - Faith and Charity - may be clearer in their meaning than Hope. What exactly is Hope? And we're not talking about the ordinary use to which we put this word: I "hope" you're listening isn't it. I "hope" the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup isn't either. (Not only isn't it an example of Hope as a Theological virtue, but for so many years it's been an unfulfilled and frustrating version of hope!) Our Theological Virtue of Hope is a decidedly spiritual matter. We're into the supernatural world when we think of it, speak of it, and, ideally, practice this virtue daily. And being in the supernatural, we've lifted ourselves out of the material world - that which is t...