Dear friends, Christian hope is not born in noise, but in the silence of an expectation filled with love. The Virgin Mary teaches us this: she embodies this expectation, this trust, this hope. Dear friends, Christian hope is not born in noise, but in the silence of an expectation filled with love. The Virgin Mary teaches us this: she embodies this expectation, this trust, this hope. True joy is born of indwelt expectation, of patient faith, of the hope that what has been lived in love will surely rise to eternal life.