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When some friends from Switzerland visited Rome recently, I was standing in the Basilica shop at Saint Paul’s without the Walls waiting for them to finish buying ‘stuff’, when my eyes settled on the Jubilee Candle, part of the merchandising for the Holy Year 2025. Mysteriously, it costs \u20ac25, very expensive indeed for such a small candle. But it comes in a nice presentation box, which drew my eye to the Motto for the Jubilee Year, printed in green, probably because that is often the colour that represents hope.<\/span><\/p>\n I couldn’t help noticing that the Latin Motto has not been translated correctly. It is PEREGRINANTES IN SPEM, which <\/span>does not mean “Pilgrims in Hope”,<\/span><\/i> but literally “Pilgrims <\/span>Into<\/span><\/i> Hope”. There must be all sorts of creative ways of translating it which are faithful to the original meaning, for example “on a pilgrimage towards hope”, or “pilgrims on the way to hope”, or whatever brilliant idea you can come up with.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s not just a question of being pedantic. Those of you who know me well (or think you do) will probably agree that pedantry is right up my street, but there’s much more at stake here.<\/span><\/p>\n “Pilgrims in Hope” implies that we take up an attitude of hope and set off on pilgrimage, either by going to a place of pilgrimage or setting out a pilgrimage in our hearts – but the implication is that we already <\/span>have hope<\/span><\/i> or <\/span>know what hope is<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n “Pilgrims into Hope” is very different, and I think it’s a stroke of genius, a really inspired motto, so why lose the inspiration behind it?<\/span><\/p>\n People who set out on a Pilgrimage into Hope have recognised they have a lot to learn about hope, and they want to discover more. It’s a really dynamic idea of pilgrimage. I feel called to hope, and I would love to hope more, to have hope as a really firm anchor on my spiritual journey towards the heart of God.<\/span><\/p>\n I do hope, but I would love to hope more; I want to go on a pilgrimage of discovery in my heart in order to get closer to God’s heart. Is this the true meaning of “De profundis clamavi”? Is that <\/span>real hope<\/i><\/b>, when I realise, in the depths of despair, that I can still call on God and hope for a response of some kind?<\/span><\/p>\n On my <\/span>Pilgrimage into hope,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I have so much to learn about hope, and if I set off on a <\/span>Pilgrimage into Hope,<\/span><\/i> I know I will be one of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, of people who hope, but want to hope more.<\/span><\/p>\n I want God to hold my hand and lead me deeper and deeper into hope. Will you come, too?<\/span><\/p>\n Just a thought.<\/span><\/p>\n Mgr. Peter Fleetwood When some friends from Switzerland visited Rome recently, I was standing in the Basilica shop at Saint Paul’s without the Walls waiting for them to finish buying ‘stuff’, when my eyes settled on the Jubilee Candle, part of the merchandising for the Holy Year 2025. Mysteriously, it costs \u20ac25, very expensive indeed for such a small candle. But it comes in a nice presentation box, which drew my eye to the Motto for the Jubilee Year, printed in green, probably because that is often the colour that represents hope. I couldn’t help noticing that the Latin Motto has not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22626,"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589\/revisions\/22626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centesimusannus.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nLecturer in Philosophy at the Pontifical Beda College, Rome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"