New Year : what falling apart has to do with hope ? ..
"Sadly New Year can be a terrifying anti-climax", says Monsignor Fleetwood , " to
a period that has revealed problems we had buried or never even recognized. Something
else about New Year can be itself unsettling: the newspapers, the television and
the radio, even the priest in Church have us reviewing the past twelve months. It
can be dispiriting to have to face our failures or to revisit the difficult moments
in the past year... "