The year 2023 is just a week old today.
With hopeful hearts we exchanged wishes for health, happiness and prosperity.
The stage curtain for 2022 has fallen, leaving joy and sorrow behind to welcome the new year with pounding hearts.
Hoping, always hoping…
But where does this exaggerated hope for better days come from?
As if the world would change. So the year 2023 would enchant us as if by magic?
As if, struck by grace, we live in joy?
Unless we are blinded by this belief in suffering humanity, we assume that 2023 could not be any worse than the ones before.
How ? Is there anything new under the sun?
Our young year 2023 rolls on the rails of the previous one.
The majority of people on the planet live under dictatorial regimes.
Our democracies are faltering in the face of the power of social networks, which bombard us with abbreviated information and full of false propaganda.
We are swimming in a sea of ”alternative truths and facts”.
Because Facebook and Twitter aren’t just used to share our photos of kittens, well-watered meals and vacations in the sun.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg serving the soup to the powerful who manipulate us… Frightening apostles.
It takes more than wishful thinking to lead us to the light.
Enough poopers played!
I forbid us to give up hope.
Let’s strive for a better world against all odds. Beginning with ours in Quebec, we boldly defend our language, our culture, and the values we hold dear.
I offer you my best wishes for 2023.
Yesterday the Epiphany was celebrated according to a Christian tradition that has its origins in the East.
We eat Galette des Rois, hoping not to lose a crown by biting into the bean.
Let’s hope for less little kings and more pancakes in 2023!
