“Know that the Kingdom of God is at hand.” Lk. 21:29-33

The Gospel leads us along paths of life and meaning, where in contemplating them we recognize shoots of hope. Only a contemplative look in the silence of nature can appreciate the sprout of life and thus it will become valid and current: “heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away”. Therefore, the suffering of many human beings, their pain, loneliness, sadness, untreated illness, exclusion and displacement, must be signs that we are still alive and that there is a task to be done; to be the hands of God, who build the Kingdom, saving and freeing the most vulnerable from oppression.

 How do we manage to work with hope in a world of so much darkness?