{"id":12461,"date":"2024-10-20T16:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T16:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theboholtimes.com\/?p=12461"},"modified":"2024-10-27T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:28:35","slug":"be-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theboholtimes.com\/?p=12461","title":{"rendered":"<i>Be hopeful!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/theboholtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12a-min-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12462\" style=\"width:608px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theboholtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12a-min-1.jpg 748w, https:\/\/theboholtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12a-min-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theboholtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12a-min-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Hope is first of all not just a virtue that we produce, cultivate or keep ourselves. It is first of all a gift of God, given to us in abundance. It is the gift of Christ himself who, by the Holy Spirit, is made present in us through his words, his sacraments, his Church. All we have to do is to correspond to this wonderful reality as vigorously as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">That is why we need to be most mindful of the truths of our faith, giving time to meditate on them and to make them sink in our very consciousness. We have to be wary of our tendency to be carried away by our earthly concerns, no matter how legitimate they are. 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