In the year since the tragedy, Sacred Heart and the wider Catholic community have rallied to support the families and others affected by the accident.

We stand before Christ, transcending time, awaiting the moment when the energy of light and life — unleashed at creation, and subsumed (just once) into the quiescence of a grace-filled womb — flares through that enshrouded body, reanimating, resurrecting.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church lays out a very different understanding of hope for the Christian, not merely as an expectation, but as a supernatural virtue:

Farms are in every state in the country, producing fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy and raising animals for consumption. It all makes its way to the nation’s dinner tables.

Immediately before leaving Rome’s Gemelli hospital after more than five weeks of treatment for breathing difficulties, double pneumonia and infections, Pope Francis greeted hundreds of people who gathered outside the hospital March 23.