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The Compendium of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church:

#387. What is hope?
Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire and await from God eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit to merit it and to persevere to the end of our earthly life.

Pope Benedict's December 2008 Mission Intention is:
"That especially in mission countries, Christians may show through gestures of brotherliness that the Child born in the grotto in Bethlehem is the luminous Hope of the world."

Act of Hope
O Lord God, I hope by your grace for the pardon of all my sins and after life here to gain eternal happiness because you have promised it who are infinitely powerful, faithful, kind, and merciful. In this hope I intend to live and die. Amen.



This second video shows a little more of the everyday life of NIck.



Proverbs 24:16 says, "For the just man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble to ruin."

This verse does not justify sin; but rather affirms that "all men are sinners" but that some sinners get back up and some do not. What type of sinner will we be? The just man examines his conscience and is aware of his thoughts and actions, shows sorrow for his sin, has a resolve to sin no more, confesses his sin and does necessary penance.

This five step processes of examination, sorrow, resolve, confession and penance, is the process of rising again. The wicked refuse to rise again and therefore stay in their sin and stumble to ruin. While we were sinners, Christ our Hope, comes to run and says to us, rise and follow me, follow me out of sin to new life.

Under the weight of our sin, Christ himself fell three times as He walked to Calvary. He got back up to show us that even under the heaviest weight of sin (which was the cross) Hope does not leave.

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