Written by: host
Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Does the liturgical calendar suit the seasons of the northern hemisphere better than the south, as some have suggested? Pope Benedict XVI invites us to consider both autumn and spring as ‘seed-time’:

In the spring the farmer sows seed for autumn the coming year. Sowing seed always points to the future, for the waning year also points to a new future.

In both seasons the mystery of hope is at work and reaches its proper depth in the waning year, which leads beyond decline to a new beginning. It would be a great work of inculturation to develop this approach and to bring it into the common consciousness of Christians in the two hemispheres, southern and northern. The south could help the north to discover a new breadth and depth in the mystery, thus enabling us all to draw afresh on its richness.

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