It is almost a year since my first blog, and I cannot believe how quickly the year has passed. We now enter the Advent Season and await the coming of the infant Jesus. The most beautiful season in the Church calendar is upon us. There is no better time to reflect on some hidden lessons the Holy Family has to teach us. Nativity scene under our Christmas tree, 30 November 2021 In Luke's gospel, Joseph took his pregnant wife, Mary, and travelled about 130 km from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be enrolled for the census. We know enough to realise that St. Joseph was not particularly well off and probably did not own a donkey or cart to make the journey a little easier. So imagine your pregnant wife, with swollen feet, a sore back, and uncomfortable under the weight of carrying the tiny infant in her womb, setting off to travel on foot to the next town. Bethlehem was full as travellers were coming in from different places and would have been packed with people bumping past each other,...