OPI

“Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it embraces our lives forever. Hope does not disappoint!”

“The one who has hope lives differently.”

“Hope never cuts everyone off.”

Maria “Montse” Montserrat Alvarado, president of EWTN News (the “global Catholic network”), was speaking to the women of the Knights of Columbus, gathered in Washington, D.C., for the annual convention of the Catholic fraternal organization. The lunch is mostly for wives of leaders in the Knights — women who are community leaders in their own right, albeit usually without the colorful titles the Knights are known for.

Montse shared the quote about joy, which comes from St. Augustine on his mother, St. Monica. His life was a moral disaster. It was an excruciating cross for his mother to bear. But she prayed. She pra

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