“The more immense the hope … the more we know instinctively that it will be realized only by resolutely and patiently committing ourselves over the long term. We will have to live [our hope] one day at a time in order to maintain it. All our little gestures will speak of it. A cup of water offered or received, a morsel of bread shared, a helping hand, will tell more accurately than a theology manual about what it’s possible for us to be together.
“We are marked, all of us, by the call of a beyond, but the logic of this beyond is first of all that there is more to do between us, today, together. A new world is in gestation, and it is incumbent upon us to reveal its soul.”
