Hope ~ Msgr. Daniel Hoye

If we didn't have this listing of the Apostles, we probably never would have known there was a Simon and a Jude.  Simon has one line in John's Gospel at the Last Supper when he says "are you going to reveal yourself to the world now?"  And Judas never speaks.

We know Jude because he is known as the saint of hopeless causes.  Maybe that is where we can focus today.  We always have to be a person of hope; that there is nothing that can defeat us because we are no longer strangers or sojourners.  I like the old translation better, we are no longer strangers or aliens, that we are always at home with the Lord.

Maybe as we gather in prayer today we can pray, perhaps for ourselves or for those friends of ours who might be tempted to be without hope in their life today.