Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
Anticipatory Joy
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Besides joy in our Savior, a second reason for joy: we look forward to the fulllness of salvation – “an inheritance... kept in heaven for you... until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice" (1 Pt 1:4-6). Anticipatory joy might be compared to the hopes of a child on Christmas Eve. Unlike our fleeting earthly joys, however, the joy that looks ahead to heaven is based on "a hope that does not disappoint us" (Rom 5:5).
This excerpt is from the book The Art of Loving God by John H. Hampsch, C.M.F., originally published by Servant Publications, 1995. This and other of Fr. Hampsch's books and audio/visual materials can be purchased from Claretian Teaching Ministry, 20610 Manhattan Pl, #120, Torrance, CA 90501-1863. Phone 1-310-782-6408.
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About the Author
The Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F., ordained as a Catholic priest in 1952, is a member of the Claretian Missionaries, and is founder and director of the Claretian Teaching Ministry. Listed in Who’s Who in Religion in America, he has served as parish priest, seminary professor and rector, college professor, lecturer, magazine writer, newspaper columnist, editor, retreat master, hospital chaplain, prison chaplain, campus chaplain, Cursillo director and director of suicide prevention programs in Texas and California.
He earned degrees in philosophy from Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles and from Notre Dame University, with postgraduate work at the University of Southern California and the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, in ascetical and mystical theology.
Find his many books and audio/visual recordings at www.Catholicbooks.net
