Welcome to the Advent 2025 edition of the Dunkeld News.
I was delighted with the feedback we received for our first edition, with the smiling face of our Holy Father on the front page. My thanks to all the team for their hard work producing it.
As we enter a holy season of the year preparing for Christ to be born among us and renewed in our hearts, we reflect in these pages on Pope Leo’s first exhortation Dilexi Te, in which the Holy Father reteaches St Francis’ lesson that a preferential love for the poor can renew both the Church and society. Pope Leo urges us to recognise the growing numbers of people living in poverty, its structural roots and calls for action addressing the deeper causes of poverty and a change in social attitudes…