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zimmerWhen we look into the future of a fallen situation – as many in the Catholic Church are doing today – we tend to find ourselves faced with two options. The first option is to conserve what has worked in the past with a disregard for the reality of the present. The second is to progress beyond the present with a disregard for what really has worked in the past. There really isn’t much difference between the two.

parkerPublished in 1853 by the Rev. J.M. Neale, the carol “Good King Wenceslas” tells of a cold, snowy night on which Wenceslas, the Duke of Bohemia, notices a man foraging in the woods near his home.