“You are the living fountain of hope. Hope is the one station where the great train of ete

“You are the living fountain of hope. Hope is the one station where the great train of eternity makes a brief stop. You are the living fountain of hope for, without hope, there is no chance for life.
“The person’s life is hope, it is hope that I invite your eyes to seek–your eyes that have been sharpened in these days by the many voices you have heard.
“O Lady, among mortals you are the living fountain of hope.
“The figure of Our Lady is truly the figure of hope, the certainty that in the pavilions of the universe (as medieval people would say) she is the spring of water that can be heard running day and night, night and day.”
~ Luigi Giussani. August, 2002, Rimini Italy. 
[At the Mother of God Oak, 1835 - Karl Bryullov] 

• Luigi Giovanni Giussani was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator, public intellectual, Servant of God and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. For more:  https://english.clonline.org/fr-giussani 

• Bryullov saw beauty in the profusion of sensations in life, in the immediacy of human feelings, in simple everyday things. More: http://artroots.com/ra/bio/bryullov/bryullovbio.htm