“Transformed by Hope” is proposed as a space of listening and discernment on the Sunday Gospels that accompany our journey.

This initiative is situated within the horizon opened by the Jubilee and seeks to extend its grace, continuing to live our vocation as pilgrims of hope amid the challenges of our time.

Each week, in the light of the Word of God, we contemplate an aspect of the conversion to which we are called, allowing ourselves to be guided by the Spirit. 

In the Sixth Week of Easter, the reflection on the Gospel according to John (Jn 14:15–21) is entrusted to Sr Dorina Zanoni, Superior General of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

There is a mysterious and profound fear in the heart of every person: the fear of being left alone, abandoned… the fear of losing our dearest loved ones and becoming orphaned. It is deeply meaningful and beautiful that, in the Gospel of this Sixth Sunday of Easter, Jesus reaches out to His sad and frightened disciples with reassuring words: “I will not leave you orphaned” (Jn 14:18).

All Scripture is permeated by God’s loving declaration to His people: “I am with you.” It is the proclamation of a love that always remains, especially in difficult moments. In Jesus, this faithful closeness that never abandons us “became flesh” (Jn 1:14): a real presence, an experience that reaches the human heart, reassures it, and transforms it.

“I will not leave you orphaned” is Jesus’ promise, a promise fulfilled through the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete. Indeed, the Holy Spirit, gift of the Father, will always be with us, remain beside us, and dwell within us (cf. Jn 14:17).

For us consecrated women, the unshakable certainty of God’s presence in our lives and in the history of humanity is the source of all that we are and all that we do. Never feeling orphaned — especially in the complex moments of our personal history and before the challenges of today’s world — opens us with confidence to the people we meet and to the ministries we are called to carry out.

It is precisely from this deep awareness that there flows an ever-new energy, enabling us to approach every person with the maternal spirit of the Church, which lovingly cares for her children. Through the power of the Spirit, we become witnesses of a Hope that does not disappoint (Rom 5:5), bearers of a Hope capable of proclaiming through “words and deeds” to all humanity the certainty of being loved, never abandoned, never orphaned.