Summer 2023

As Christmas approaches each year, I’m increasingly aware of those around me who have lost loved ones in the previous 12 months. I think this awareness began the year my father died. His death was in September, and I recall being very touched by those who remembered dad at Christmas and took the trouble to acknowledge my family’s first Christmas without him. 

Every year I have the same thought. This is the year I am going to do Christmas right. It will be relaxed. It will be meaningful. It will be holy. It will be organised within an inch of its life. Every year I dream of having the sort of Christmas you could use as a model for best practice. An ideal for Catholic Family Life.