Fr. Frank Majka, SJ – The Bridge

Faith Hope and Love Today

These three are linked together as virtues that mark a Christian’s life. They are virtues of heart, mind and soul that we need in order to make it through the challenges of life

Faith is not just about having a correct understanding about God’s existence and attributes, but also about putting our trust in God, in effect saying to God, “We believe it when you say you love us and will hold fast to your promise to always love us.”

Hope is depending that God’s power and care can “do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.” (Ephesians 3: 20-21). Even when we do not know precisely when or how that will happen, we know that it will.

Love, according to St. Paul, is the greatest of God’s gifts, opening our hearts to love God, our neighbors and ourselves. It lets us see that we are all brothers and sisters to one another and that we are one family.

Truly, we need to ask God to continue to bless us with faith, hope and love. But we also need to practice “doing” them by consciously and frequently entrusting our lives to God, putting our hopes and desires into his hands, and being patient and kind, not being inflated, pompous or rude.(1 Corinthians 13:4-6)

Then, even in difficult times like our own, we may live gracefully and with peace.