The Catholic Register Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:20:18 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb The ChristianƵapp ‘Mission Possible’ is to create hope /opinion/columnists/item/35308-the-christian-s-mission-possible-is-to-create-hope /opinion/columnists/item/35308-the-christian-s-mission-possible-is-to-create-hope

Every so often a song comes into my life that makes me cry in a flood of deep spiritual emotion. The latest one made my wife cry first. She heard it at a performance where our kid is a Grade 12 student at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. It was a choral rendition of Low LilyƵapp song “Hope Lingers On,” arranged by Andrea Ramsey. She inspired an online search for it. This article is best read to that soundtrack.

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lstocking@catholicregister.org (Luke Stocking) Register Columnists Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:15:00 -0500
Hooked on a feeling? Choose hope instead /opinion/columnists/item/34839-hooked-on-a-feeling-choose-hope-instead /opinion/columnists/item/34839-hooked-on-a-feeling-choose-hope-instead

If you are feeling discouraged about the state of the world and the Church these days, please remember that hope is one of the three theological virtues infused into you at your baptism. St. Paul tells us that “…these three remain: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13); but perhaps the “hardest of these” can be hope.

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burnsh@catholicregister.org (Sr. Helena Burns, FSP) Register Columnists Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:19:17 -0400
Leah Perrault: Soften our hearts to believe in hope /opinion/columnists/item/34153-leah-perrault-soften-our-hearts-to-believe-in-hope /opinion/columnists/item/34153-leah-perrault-soften-our-hearts-to-believe-in-hope

As the world feels like it might give way into dust, I’m clinging to a promise of hope. I can still feel the faint dry spot on my forehead where it was marked with ashes. We haven’t been promised permanence, and that annoys me. And still. The eternal Word promised to be with us always. Hope is falling, even here.

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lperrault@catholicregister.org (Leah Perrault) Register Columnists Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:30:00 -0400
Robert Kinghorn: The lethal absence of hope /opinion/columnists/item/34003-robert-kinghorn-the-lethal-absence-of-hope /opinion/columnists/item/34003-robert-kinghorn-the-lethal-absence-of-hope

I am often asked to speak to groups about my experiences on the streets of the city, and what it means for each of us to be the Church on the Street. Recently at the end of one of these talks I was asked, “What do those on the street need the most?” I could do no better than to quote one of my heroes, Fr. Greg Boyle who works with the gang members in Los Angeles and who said, “Gang members need hope. They live with a lethal absence of hope.”

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robert.kinghorn@ekinghorn.com (Robert Kinghorn) Robert Kinghorn Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:30:00 -0500
Ian Hunter: Rejoice in hope /opinion/guest-columnists/item/33999-ian-hunter-rejoice-in-hope /opinion/guest-columnists/item/33999-ian-hunter-rejoice-in-hope

The Christian faith acknowledges three theological virtues: faith, hope and charity (today usually rendered “love”). The greatest of these may well be love (as St. Paul told the Corinthians) but in real life the most difficult virtue to practise — particularly in this broodingly ominous time — is hope. 

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ianhunter@catholicregister.org (Ian Hunter) Guest Columns Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:30:00 -0500
God's Word on Sunday: Hope gives us the strength to endure /faith/columnists/item/32661-god-s-word-on-sunday-hope-gives-us-the-strength-to-endure /faith/columnists/item/32661-god-s-word-on-sunday-hope-gives-us-the-strength-to-endure

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 7 (Year B) Job 7:1-4, 6-7; Psalm 147; 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39

Our perception of time depends a lot on our experience. When we are successful, happy, fulfilled and loved, time is swift indeed. It seems as if the party is over all too soon and we are reluctant to move on. But what about our experience of time when life is a gruelling and painful burden?

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fr_scott@catholicregister.org (Fr. Scott Lewis, S.J) Fr. Scott Lewis Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:00:00 -0500
Luke Stocking: The hope inside me comes from God /opinion/columnists/item/32658-luke-stocking-the-hope-inside-me-comes-from-god /opinion/columnists/item/32658-luke-stocking-the-hope-inside-me-comes-from-god

Over my 14 years working at Development and Peace – Caritas Canada I have given a countless number of public presentations and workshops on our mission. This has involved sharing story after story of the violence, poverty and injustice of our broken world. Of all the questions people have asked me, there is one that arises again and again: “How do you stay hopeful?”

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lstocking@catholicregister.org (Luke Stocking) Register Columnists Sat, 30 Jan 2021 14:30:00 -0500
Francis Campbell: A spirit of hope in ChurchƵapp new reality /opinion/guest-columnists/item/32204-francis-campbell-a-spirit-of-hope-in-church-s-new-reality /opinion/guest-columnists/item/32204-francis-campbell-a-spirit-of-hope-in-church-s-new-reality

The times they are a-changin’.

Writing in 1962 about anticipated dramatic changes to family, racial, social, political and sexual dynamics, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan warned the old guard that their existing road was rapidly aging and they’d better get out of the way if they couldn’t lend a hand to those driving world change.

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fcampbell@catholicregister.org (Francis Campbell) Guest Columns Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:14:38 -0400
Peter Stockland: A shadow of hope emerges in crisis /opinion/columnists/item/31603-peter-stockland-a-shadow-of-hope-emerges-in-crisis /opinion/columnists/item/31603-peter-stockland-a-shadow-of-hope-emerges-in-crisis

On the doorstep of what would become the COVID-19 crisis of spring 2020, a wise woman I encountered called me out on the distinction between hope and expectation.

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peterstockland@catholicregister.org (Peter Stockland) Peter Stockland Sat, 16 May 2020 11:05:06 -0400
On Good Friday, papal preacher says cross brings hope to the oppressed /faith/item/29359-on-good-friday-papal-preacher-says-cross-brings-hope-to-the-oppressed /faith/item/29359-on-good-friday-papal-preacher-says-cross-brings-hope-to-the-oppressed

VATICAN CITY - The cross serves as a warning to the powerful and a message of hope for the poor and oppressed, said the preacher of the papal household.

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