CHRISTMAS 2025

We are the times

 

When we are dismayed and troubled by the world we live in, the ancient politician Cicero knew how we feel. On several occasions, in his speeches, he lamented the way things were going with the phrase Such times, such customs!

A few centuries later, another Roman orator, St Augustine, gave this sentiment a Christian slant: Bad times, troublesome times! This is what people are saying. But let our lives be good; and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

You and I are not, thank God, responsible for everything. However, each of us can make a difference in our family, our community and even sometimes beyond. Our actions may seem small to the world, even to ourselves, but God measures differently.

May the Beloved Son, who has entered our world to redeem it from within, give you hope and peace as we rejoice at his birth.

 

+Michael McKenna
Bishop of Bathurst

Wilderness to the Word
Charlotte, St Matthews Catholic School, Mudgee