Finding Hope When Life Doesn't Go as Planned | Fr. Michael Himes

How do you find hope when life doesn’t go as planned? Fr. Michael Himes shares the story of his diagnosis and how he continues to find hope in it. To go straight to this story, head to 21:24 on the video.

“The whole of the universe is your gift. And if at some point in the universe, it’s shaking a little bit, that doesn’t take away its grandeur, its beauty, its wonder, and its capacity for love.”

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:
• 41:52 – 5:37 // Optimism and hope are not the same thing
• 16:35 – 19:36 // Figuring out what you want to do with your life
• 21:24 – End // Story of his diagnosis and finding hope when life doesn’t go as planned

Fr. Michael Himes is a professor of theology at Boston College and a priest from the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York. He’s been awarded the “Teacher of the Year Award” at Boston College and the “Most Influential Teacher” award at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught before coming to BC.

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[danieldoyle]

Michael Hines is a gift to the Church, not only the local Church in Boston or the theological academy but for the universal Catholic Church. He will be remembered throughout the Catholic Church not only for his gifts as a moral theologian but in particular for the gift of the priesthood which shaped his way of doing moral theology. I have never known a more gifted priest and theologian. I am a personal guest of Mario Delpini, my classmate during doctoral studies in Rome, Archbishop of Milano since 2017. I swill share this with him today on the feast of Corpus Christi.

[McE]

Great talk - and more than a little relevant to COVID times...