Summer 2023

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.

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.