He also highlighted that the The Church needs hope, so that, “even when she experiences the weight of fatigue and fragility, she never forgets that she is the Bride of Christ, loved with eternal and faithful love, called to guard the light of the Gospel, sent to bring all the fire that Jesus brought and lit in the world once and for all.”
Finally, the Pontiff stressed that “each one of us needs hope; Our sometimes tired and wounded lives need it, our hearts thirsty for truth, goodness and beauty, our dreams that no darkness can quench. “Everything, inside and outside of us, longs for hope and seeks, even without knowing it, the closeness of God.”
“May the risen and ascended Lord give us the grace to rediscover hope, to announce hope and to build hope,” Pope Francis concluded.