Mass for the 59th World Day for Peace, 1.1.2026

Homily:“I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown’.And he replied,‘Go into the darkness and put your handInto the hand of God.That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!”[1]The early lines from Minnie Louise Haskins poem ‘The Gate of the Year’ used by King George VI in his 1939 Christmas Day Broadcast.My aunt Mary, Mamma’s sister, was a nurse who served on duty during the Second World War. It was never talk