“This is what Christian hope is: having the certainty that I am walking toward something that is, not something that I hope may be. This is Christian hope. Christian hope is the expectation of something that has already been fulfilled and that will certainly be fulfilled for each one of us.”
—Pope Francis
Enjoy this video interpretation of an excerpt from On Hope by Pope Francis.
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