Hope

Yearning

Longing for Transcendence

Here, then, is the need to seriously meditate on the meaning of life to recover the meaning of hoping and regaining the virtues that give value to life.

In today's modern and secular society, hope seems to have dissolved from the community to be relegated to the narrow space of private consciousness, without any social significance. It is a paradoxical and contradictory situation because, on one hand we are overwhelmed by efficiency, on the other we cannot look away from the earth to discover that we have, in fact, an immense thirst for hope.

The joy of living the everyday life is lacking, even if we have an immense need for it. We need to live our existence, even in the fragility and in the eventual poverty, having the hope for a companion, so that we can release new energy to live well.

The obvious sign of the forgetfulness of the meaning of life and of acting is oblivion, if not the rejection of metaphysical reflection on the existence of God. Yet man has a great need for truthfulness; first of all the truth about himself and later on his authentic identity.

For many the origin of life on planet earth, like that of the human race, has been determined by chance events. It is a hypothesis that does not fully satisfy the intellect, which is urged to search for the truth on the paths of God, an arduous but still accessible search.

Today the thought that is based on the medium and not on the goal to be reached, this entails as a consequence of living the earthly time without an end, without particular objectives. Well, in the desert of this reality it is clear to propose a coherent thought that has a light that pierces the darkness of the mind and revives the hope and joy of living.

Since the profound crisis of ideals and moral values is evident, it is possible to ask ourselves: is an existence without references and empty of ideals acceptable without sinking into failure? If on the one hand they took away these indispensable values, on the other, the same strategists, strongly argue that there can be no truth without values that support it. From this relativistic contrast comes the crisis of meaning that opens the door of nothingness; and it is an existential crisis.

The question that every living thing sooner or later poses is on the meaning of life that goes beyond simple vegetare. This question overcomes the simple hope of human things, but puts hope in something great that illuminates life and fills life with joy, because its "ability to hope" is placed where man's treachery cannot come.

Of course, well-being assisted by a swirling progress has inebriated the minds, has deluded the man to possess an unlimited economic and scientific power, launched towards a creative genetic manipulation such as to have in itself the illusion of being able to do without God Man's ego has replaced God with the creative idea of manipulating not only the earth, but extending its claims into the universe.

Of course, founding our certainties as our hopes on scientific research, on money, on materialism is considered by the most legitimate and desirable even if the first reflections begin to creep into enlightened minds. And if progress was not unlimited? And if the consumption of resources was not sustainable from planet Earth? And if the climate could not be explained only by mathematical complexes labored by man? What if the climate changes? What if new viruses scoured the earth? Well, the only one who proposed moral virtues and systems of life that must be based on love and love, and Jesus Christ.

No one in the history of mankind had reached these inaccessible levels, because He was the son of God, creator of the visible and invisible universe. He alone can be our present and future hope, because this hope is rooted in a beyond that surpasses human nature and is able to realize and fill all our deepest yearnings.