Advent is a time where the liturgy is especially focused on how you feel and each week has a theme. This week HOPE.
Hope isn't just a feeling,
it's a yearning.
It's an impulse of faith.
Hope is a need when the world seems dark.
Hope is what spurns us to try, to endure, to risk disappointment.
Hope is the helper in the storm, the kind look when there are no words, the promise in our Lords Prayer that in time it will be "on earth as it is in Heaven".
You can donate to our Christmas appeal this Christmas to help us bring more hope to people across England and Wales: