On The Journey This Week: Fr Chris Sarkis says only prayer, sacrifice, and graced personal holiness of life can straighten what has become twisted and buried in the moral and human turmoil. Mother Hilda says God is like the freezer repair man, checking the gas of grace that keeps us ticking over. Plus, Fr Tony Percy says Mark’s Gospel prologue sets the scene for the remainder of his Gospel, Fr John Nguyen OFM Cap says on the eight hundredth anniversary of the creation of the nativity scene, choose to see the living Babe of Christmas, like Saint Francis did 800 years ago, and Br Lewis Harwood says the scripture readings this coming week contain a simple message: move out of the wilderness and return to the land of hope.