The life of an authentic Christian is a virtuous life: following the Virtuous One Jesus Christ, God and Man. A virtuous life is the life of a disciple of Christ who practices virtues: the Seven Magnificent Virtues which according to St. Thomas Aquinas make a good Chattian, namely, faith, hope and charity (the theological virtues), and prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance (the cardinal moral virtues).
Human life is indeed a narrative of hopes in the plural – human hopes – and of hope in the singular – Christian or theological hope. The 2025 Jubilee Year is the Holy Year of Hope. We wish to reflect on hope. Thereafter, we meditate on the nature of Christian hope, on the dimensions and properties of hope, on sins against hope, on hope as creative fidelity to the present. Finally, the author tells us how he nurtures his hope and hopes, mainly his theological hope.