Hope - it's our calling

"In you there is hope, for you belong to the future, just as the future belongs to you. For hope is always linked to the future; it is the expectation of "future good things". As a Christian virtue, it is linked to the expectation of those eternal good things which God has promised to man in Jesus Christ.(3) And at the same time, this hope, as both a Christian and a human virtue, is the expectation of the good things which man will build, using the talents given him by Providence."

APOSTOLIC LETTER
DILECTI AMICI
OF POPE
JOHN PAUL II
TO THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD
ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL YOUTH YEAR