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Over the abyss of spiritual darkness, our faith in Christ allows us to cling to a thread of hope

I was clinging by faith alone, clinging to a thin thread of hope, suspended over a vast abyss.

With Christ, our prayer is worthwhile. We do not have to pray with eloquence - but with faith and hope and love.

With Christ, our prayer is worthwhile. We do not have to pray with eloquence - but with faith and hope and love.

Christ permits us to radiate His own light, thereby bringing light and hope to others.

Everyone on earth can choose to call out for God's help, hoping to be heard. Yet those who have been baptised into Christ, made adopted children of God, living in His light, can speak with God as with a friend, and have a sure hope of Heaven, if faithful to the end. Christ's Spirit, living in souls, gives knowledge of God, intimacy, and hope, and is a lamp for the Way.

Freed from the slavery of sin, each of us can look joyfully towards God and Heaven, hopeful about one day sharing God's glory.

How to Pray (Part One: Foundations)

We hope to follow the way opened for us by Christ's Sacrifice, and to join Him in Heaven.

Our "living-by-faith" resembles the training of a gymnast; without practice, we shall not be calm, sure, unworried and hopeful.

Every act of faith in God (as when we pray the creed, sincerely) is like a cry of hope and determination from a darkened world.

Every act of faith is like a cry of hope from a darkened world

In the heart of one who truly loves God, little weaknesses are like a 'muddy area' through which new shoots of grace emerge.

No evil force can undo what Christ does by His offering of His Holy Sacrifice. One who clings to the cross has hope.

One who prays in Christ's name for others bears up to Heaven in her arms some who, otherwise, would have no hope of joy.

Here amongst us, Christ offers His Holy Sacrifice, once offered on Calvary; yet He lives in Heaven, Risen now, and we live in hope.

Just as Christ toddled steadily forwards, held by His Mother, so we can walk like simple trusting children, unafraid and hopeful.

As a child might see the point of the teacher's many instructions only later on, as he paints the details of each letter in a huge word, so we who fulfil God's Will can hope for eventual understanding and glory.

The flame of love and faith is kept alight by Christ at work in us, leading us to give hope and consolation to others - helped by the prayers, here, of St Margaret Mary.

By confession of my weakness and selfish hopes, it is as though I open a high window within my soul. Light pours within.