The Annals of Saint Anne - Summary

November-December 2025

Editor's desk François-Marie Héraud

Welcoming Peace

In our world of constant motion, where everything must be instantaneous and where images reign supreme, it is easy to be misled and to believe that all we see on our phones, tablets and televisions is true.

Do we not chase after the latest news spread across social media and news networks? Do we realize that artificial intelligence creates images designed to please, persuade or even provoke? How often do we allow appearances to guide our hearts?

How, then, can we welcome truth and learn to recognize what is real? At Christmas, the Gospels present to us a humble woman, Mary. She is the one who, at the Annunciation, answers “Yes,” entrusting herself fully to God, who had first chosen her. One silent night, far from home, Mary brings a Child into the world. She wraps Him in swaddling clothes and lays Him in a manger, in all simplicity and poverty.

Mary is a woman of silence and listening, of thanksgiving and discernment. From her earliest days, she hears the Word of God, ponders it deeply, and keeps it in her heart. A woman of deep faith, she abandons herself completely to God.

This Christmas, let us dare to ask Mary, the Mother of God, for the grace to teach us how to welcome and receive God’s Peace in our hearts.

May Mary show us how to live with humility!

May Mary teach us to pray with trust!

May Mary help us to surrender our fears as we turn towards God!

Then, at Christmas, we shall be ready to welcome the Christ Child and the Peace He offers us!

 

Merry Christmas 2025 and a Happy and Holy New Year 2026!



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Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix – Archbishop of Québec

New Year’s Greetings

The beginning of a new year lends itself to the expression of wishes that we exchange with the hope that they may come true over the months ahead. Health often tops the list, as if we felt the need to be spared from the many illnesses that now seem to pollute the air of the world.
Another of these threatening afflictions is the absence of peace. The sounds of war continue to echo through many regions of the world. Closer to home, quarrels, arguments and divisions of all kinds stand in contradiction to the coming of peace. Christians who ritually exchange the wish for peace during the celebration of the Eucharist could take it as a commitment to make that peace a reality at every moment of life.
For Jesus transforms His disciples into lovers of a life that becomes fruitful through every expression of the peace which He calls us to build. Let us then use our tears to water the soil of tolerance, our compassion to console, to support, to heal and to love. Aware of the deep thirst for peace that dwells in those who suffer from loneliness and in those seeking comfort and courage to carry on, let us welcome the grace that flows from the Merciful Heart of the Lord, so that our own hearts may be tender to the suffering of others. Then the song of the angels proclaiming the coming of Emmanuel, the Prince of Peace, will resound in our hearts, within our communities and throughout our world.
I wish you a happy, healthy and holy New Year filled with peace!




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