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This week, Fr James Hanvey SJ begins his Advent reflections. On the 30th anniversary of Dorothy Day's death, Fr Ashley Beck looks at the fiery activist's life; John Hinton reviews a book about the Quaker chocolate empires and Fr Adrian Graffy unpacks the Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini. Robin Baird-Smith, meanwhile, ruminates on the value of silence.