Engaging in a little cross pollination here.... 50 years is a long time for a sustained hope.
I share this here, in celebration of  Sr. McCormick, a quote from Wendell Berry.
"Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence” (What Are People For?)." and a link to the article that helped me into this Monday Morning... https://www.christiancentury.org/article/what-does-it-mean-hope 
It is still a struggle to be the same on Monday morning as I was on Sunday. God isn't different... I am