Tue Nov 29, 2022 – 12:29 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – We all want to have hope. Many of us do. Our hope is in the Lord, we say. Indeed it is. But what is the expectation of that hope?
As the world spins out of control, at what appears to be an accelerating pace, we hear this cri de coeur lifted to the skies among peoples everywhere.
There is a sense that the people of our age hope that somehow God will intervene and make things in our families, cities, countries, and our world, “right.” That we will be preserved from a significant, life-altering, perhaps unprecedented, disruption in our lives.
In short, that just this once in the history of humankind, God will not be the God he has revealed himself to be.
That he will not permit man to bear the consequences of his own choices freely made.
But if this God is truly as perfectly just as he is perfectly merciful, how would he explain that to our first parents? Or the people of the Covenant? Or even the first Christians who suffered the consequence of Jesus’s rejection in Jerusalem?
Our Lord himself appeared
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