{"product_id":"testimony-of-hope-spiritual-exercises-given-to-pope-john-paul-ii-9780819874078","title":"Testimony of Hope : Spiritual Exercises Given to Pope John Paul II","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery year  John Paul 11 selects a preacher for a course of Spiritual Exercises for himself and the Vaticans Roman Curia. For the Jubilee 2000  he chose Vietnamese Archbishop Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan. Testimony of Hope is the complete text of those Spiritual Exercises. In this moving work  Archbishop Van Thuan addresses our need for hope at the beginning of the twenty-first century. As a prisoner in various Communist prisons for thirteen years  nine of them in solitary confinement  Archbishop Van Thuan faced what he describes as the agonizing pain of isolation and abandonment. Recounting the details of those long years  he reveals the secret that allowed him to cling to hope in the midst of despair. Archbishop Van Thuans message to John Paul 11 is also for us: the hope he discovered in imprisonment is also our hope for the Church and the world at this momentous point in history. Faced with any darkness  we have a reason for confidence: Christ  Hope of the World. Francis Xavier Nguyen Van 7huan was made the bishop of Nha Trang in 1967  and in 1975  coadjutor bishop of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). Arrested only a few months after his appointment  Archbishop Van 7huan was imprisoned by the Vietnamese government for thirteen years and then released to house arrest. In 1991  Van Thuan was expelled from Vietnam. He went to Rome and began his work in the Roman Curia as Vice President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Since 1998  Archbishop Van 7huan has served as the Councils President. In 2001  Van 7huan was named a Cardinal. He entered eternal life on September 16  2002\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279944278069,"sku":"ByrdShop_0819874078","price":34.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780819874078.jpg?v=1780616416","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/testimony-of-hope-spiritual-exercises-given-to-pope-john-paul-ii-9780819874078","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}