Saint Gertrude Parish - Lasne

7. Besides drawing hope from God's grace, we are also called to rediscover it in the signs of the times that the Lord offers us. As the Second Vatican Council affirms, “the Church has the duty, at all times, to scrutinize the signs of the times and to interpret them in the light of the Gospel, so that she may respond, in a way appropriate to each generation, to humanity's perennial questions about the meaning of life, present and future, and about their mutual relationships.” [4] We must therefore pay attention to all the good that is present in the world so as not to fall into the temptation of considering ourselves overwhelmed by evil and violence. But the signs of the times, which contain the yearning of the human heart, in need of God's saving presence, demand to be transformed into signs of hope.