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Globally, the outlook for 2025 is quite frightening.  How can we live joyfully, or at least cheerfully, in a world full of other people’s suffering?  I will argue that good cheer is a useful contribution to a disturbed world and suggest some ways to achieve it.  This is a follow up to my January 2022 homily on the Discipline of Joy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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