Christian Hope
Here are the catecheses on Christian Hope which Pope Francis gave us at the Wednesday General Audiences between December 2016 - October 2017. They followed on from his Catechesis on Mercy during the Jubilee of Mercy, and preceded those on the Holy Mass.
There were 38 catecheses in this series:
1) Comfort my People
2) How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace…
3) The Nativity of Jesus, Source of Hope
4) Abraham, father in faith and hope
5) Rachel “weeps for her children”, but... “there is hope for your descendants”
6) The false hopes in idols
7) Jonah: hope and prayer
8) Judith: the courage of a woman gives hope to a people
9) The Helmet of Hope
10) Hope, source of reciprocal comfort and of peace
11) Hope does not delude
12) In hope we recognise all the saved
13) Lent as a journey of hope
14) Rejoice in hope
15) A hope founded on the Word
16) Hope against all hope
17) Give reason for the hope that is in us
18) The hope of the world & the hope of the Cross
19) The Risen Christ, our hope
20) I am with you always, until the end of the world: the promise that gives hope
21) The Mother of Hope
22) Mary Magdalen, Apostle of Hope
23) Emmaus, the pathway of Hope
24) The Holy Spirit makes us abound in hope
25) God’s fatherhood, source of our Hope
26) Beloved Children, the Certainty of Hope
27) The Saints, Witnesses & Companions of Hope
28) Hope, the Strength of the Martyrs
29) Baptism: Door of Hope
30) Divine Forgiveness: Engine of Hope
31) "Behold, I make all things new". The Novelty of Christian Hope
32) The Memory of Vocation revives Hope
33) Educate to Hope
34) The Enemies of Hope
35) Missionaries of Hope today
36) The Vigilant Wait
37) Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
38) Paradise, the goal of our Hope