Welcome to the Advent issue of the Light of the North.
We hope you’ll find plenty in this issue to help you enter more fully into the Advent season including Bishop Hugh’s Letter (p3) where he issues a clarion call for Advent-hope. Also, be inspired by Carlo Acutis, the young Italian boy who died at the age of fifteen from leukaemia, and who will become the first millennial saint next year (p17). In addition, Kirsten Schouwenaars-Harms warns about the pitfalls of merging the Advent and Christmas seasons (p18), Fr Benedict Hardy reflects on the occurrence of bees and their honey in scripture (p25), and Hilde Bardell recalls the remarkable priest, Fr Theophilus Verstraeten, who saved Lerwick from smallpox (p27). And there’s lots more…
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