HOPE

Every year we begin the liturgical year anew. Can we expect something new? The Church says "YES" by giving us Advent Season, a time in which we renew our waiting and it is a banal waiting, but waiting for God, the waiting for Christ, the Lord and Saviour of the world.

This expectation is so important, so capable of filling our hearts and learn to feel it within ourselves and in everyone and everything, we understand that it is the fulfilment of our entire humanity. It is the fulfilment for those who trust, for those who have everything as well as those who have lost everything.

Saint Paul reveals to us how the expectation of Christ gives the passing of time a meaning that is the contrary compared to instinctive feeling. The passing of tome does not bring us closer to the end, but rather makes salvation, that is, the coming of the Saviour ever more imminent.

"You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep, our salvation is nearer now then when we first believed. The night is far gone, the day is near." (Rom 13)