Here is a provisional English translation of the reflection prepared by the Quebec Group on Contextual Theology. See the French version below.
In the preceding two texts about the economic crisis (Who will help us cross the desert? April 2009; New World Coming, February, 2010. See http://gtcq.blogspot.com/), we tried to discern paths that might serve not only to come through the crisis, but also to deepen our hope. Wishing now to raise questions and to share, we finish this series of texts by proposing a reflection on the mobilizing strength of hope.
Spontaneously, hope can be associated with waiting, and so be seen as contrary to active and committed mobilization. We believe rather that it is required for engagement: without it, why continue, especially when the results hoped for are not realized or when they are few and far between? Some interpretation is required. In a Christian perspective, it is the search for coherence between our current action and what has been promised by God for our common future. The new world comes unceasingly toward us; it awakens us and comes about through our commitments. (See the earlier texts.) In real life, how can we link the reception of this new life with the responsibility to make it bear fruit? How can we link hope and mobilization in a context of crisis and of multiple questioning?
