Francis by Patrick J. Marrin for December 02, 2024

We can indeed. I wish it were that easy. It wasn’t a good year. (Including for me. I was in the hospital twice in two months. Pneumonia is no joke.)

We need a massive miracle now. I feel much fear and despair, manipulated by awful people.

Meanwhile, the RC Church remains glued to his view of women.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." – Viktor Frankl.

If they choose hate, we can choose love. We can also choose hope instead of despair.

Do not allow other people to decide for you what feeling you have.

And as I mentioned last week, in the spirit of this comic’s title…Lord, let me be an instrument of your love

“Light the Advent wreath and start over!”

Good luck on starting over. Very few on our planet seem either willing or able to do so, and they will impact your lives.

I wish it were that easy, Brother Leo.

Linus: “It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”

Lucy: “YOU STUPID DARKNESS!”

I prefer to be a Linus.

It’s worth a shot.

2025 is a Jubilee Year in the Church. We are called to be Pilgrims of Hope. The world needs hope. And the action that is inspired and strengthened by hope. Hope — Light — even one candle. Even one person.

It’s too late to start over. WWIII is on the way. :(

amen

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes.

Let’s try an absurd concept: Love. Even love of your enemy. You don’t have to LIKE him, and you can do all in your power to defeat him, but do not return his hate with hate.

After war, hate is the ultimate negative sum game: nobody wins and both sides lose. Hate diminishes the hated and consumes the life of the hater.

I have an impossible dream: to turn a nightmare into a dream. My lance and steed are ready and my windmills await me.