I believe it
Publish date 10-12-2025
Both personally and as a community, we are called to be witnesses of hope!
Every day we are struck by terrible news that fills us with sadness.
Hope, which is kindled by some fragile seed of peace, is immediately extinguished. Deaths, deaths, deaths, killed as always by power, bad faith, deception.
We adults are lost and ask ourselves: where is this world going? Is it the end of everything? Younger people withdraw into themselves, take refuge in social media, express their distress through indifference or violence...
These too are signs of our times. We see them, we recognize them, but what do they tell us? Where are they taking us?
I realize that it's not easy to lift our heads and look up; humanly speaking, we are in a truly dire situation. Yet, every day, in the darkness, the light is rekindled. It is precisely the darkness of the night that heralds the light of dawn. Hope is the key to this time, to help us understand today, to support those around us. And it's up to me to begin to look at reality with a gaze of hope. Let us ask ourselves if what we do in our days brings hope, let us question how we relate to people and the situations we experience. Both personally and as a community, we are called to be witnesses of hope!
The greatest value of hope, then, is found when we are with those who in the eyes of the world are the losers: the poorest, the most fragile, the most suffering and alone.
When we are close to one of these, we understand their simplicity, their essentiality; we learn that we can live with little, that we can have nothing, and yet never stop fighting, smiling, giving thanks, living.
These little ones and the poor are worth little or nothing to the world, but with their lives they are teachers of hope, they sustain our faith. To spend time with them, to host them in our homes is a privilege. The Lord allows them to be with us so that we can continue to feel his teaching alive. Looking at them, today we want to repeat to ourselves, "Others first, then us."
Ernesto Olivero
Editorial
NP December 2025
