Saint Gertrude Parish - Lasne

Our lives are punctuated by countless events, filled with nuances and diverse experiences. Sometimes we feel joyful, sometimes sad, sometimes fulfilled, sometimes stressed, sometimes gratified, sometimes demotivated. We live busy lives, we focus on achieving results, we even reach lofty and prestigious goals. Conversely, we remain suspended, precarious, waiting for success and recognition that are slow in coming or never come at all. In short, we experience a paradoxical situation: we want to be happy, but it is very difficult to be so continuously and without shadows. We must accept our limitations and, at the same time, with an irrepressible desire to try to transcend them. Deep down, we feel that something is always missing.

In truth, we were not created for lack, but for fullness, to enjoy life and life in abundance, according to the expression of Jesus in the Gospel of John (cf. 10:10).

This boundless desire of our hearts can find its ultimate answer not in roles, not in power, not in possessions, but in the certainty that there is someone who guarantees this fundamental impulse of our human nature; in the assurance that this expectation will not be disappointed or extinguished. This certainty coincides with hope. It is not a matter of thinking optimistically: optimism often disappoints us, sees our expectations implode, while hope promises and keeps its promises.