Dear All, As you can tell from the extraordinarily long Mass schedule, this is the last bulletin for 2021 and the last of these columns for the year … and what a year it has been! And what a year it bids fair to be!

Dear All, In these Advent times, the Breviary is full of readings about the multiple ‘comings’ of Jesus. The first, most say, was his birth in Bethlehem; his last – and yet to happen – will take place when he comes to judge the living and the dead.