In the midst of a turbulent week (aren't they all, eh?) in the world, in the Church, and I dare say in the individual details of your own lives... here's something to cheer you right up. Well, two things actually.
Here's the first: today is the actual feast day of the actual Blessed Lucy of Narnia. It really, really is. I promise you.
Of all the great characters from children's literature, who better to have a namesake to intercede for us in heaven? (At least, in the absence of a St Bofa of Sofa.) After all, it was she, of all the Pevensie children, who first believed. Nor should we forget, not least as we approach Advent, that it was she who once said:
