Testimony Of Hope

Every year Pope John Paul selected a preacher for a course of Spiritual Exercises for himself and the Vatican’s Roman Curia. For the Jubilee 2000 , he chose Vietnamese Archbishop Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan. This book is the complete text of those Spiritual Exercises. Here he addresses the need for hope at the beginning of the twenty-first century. As a prisoner in various Communist prisons for thirteen years, nine of them in solitary confinement, he faced what he describes as “the agonizing pain of isolation and abandonment.” Faced with any darkness, we have a reason for confidence: Christ, Hope of the World.