Q: Archbishop J, how do we celebrate Christmas in this guava season? “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (Jn 1:14) It is a question I have heard often this year—sometimes spoken aloud, sometimes asked silently in worried hearts. At Christmas, we proclaim something so familiar that we risk no longer hearing how radical it truly is: God…
Q: Archbishop J, how do we hold on to Hope in a guava season? In Trinidad and Tobago, we know what a ‘guava season’ means. It is that time when the tree bears little fruit, when the cupboard is light, when ends refuse to meet—no matter how you stretch them. In our local speech, a ‘guava season’ is a time…
Q: Archbishop J, it’s so hard to wait through Advent for Christmas. Why bother? That’s an honest question—and one that echoes deep within many of us. We live in a world that does not like to wait. We fast-forward through commercials, swipe past slow content, and expect results in seconds. So, when the Church asks us to pause, to be…
Denise Scott For many Catholics, the start of Advent is the start of Christmas, and we get caught up in the commercialisation of Christmas and miss out on the lessons of the Advent season. In this First Week of Advent, the Church invites us to focus on Hope. Not the wishful, maybe-it-will-happen kind of hope, but the deep, steady, God-rooted hope…
Q: Archbishop J, what are you thinking about for this Advent season? This Advent feels unlike any I have ever lived through. Our nation finds itself caught in the crosscurrents of a global geopolitical struggle between powers far larger than us. The arrival of the US Naval Forces Southern Command—its ships, carriers, and aircraft filling our waters—has shaken our long-cherished…
