As always, the season of Advent flies and seems to disappear like the blink of an eye with all the busyness in and around us. What a lovely time it is for many with all the excitement and anticipation of the season, holy and secular. Advent, Christmas and the restful days post-Christmas days often encourage a nostalgic looking back on what has been in the year just gone by. That’s before the energy and new beginnings of the fresh year around the corner kicks in. In Church and religious terms it was a lively and energetic year with so many things getting off the ground again, as was the case with several other areas of life, post-Covid. It was great to see people able to gather safely again for funerals, weddings and various sacred rituals and rites of passage. The international Synodal Pathway led to many fruitful meetings, discussions and times of discernment all over the world and in the …
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