Jesus...our source of hope

Friday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time (Year 2):

"For Jesus to be our source of hope, we have to place him squarely in front of us and we must keep our eyes on him. We have to let him block our view of what is going wrong and what we fear might go wrong. We have to let his crucifixion absorb the pain we're feeling. When we connect our sufferings to Christ's sacrifice, we also connect our lives to his resurrection." Terry Modica