THE end of this year's Catholic liturgical calendar made me reflect on how far our pandemic journey has taken us. As a new liturgical calendar starts, we Catholics are ushering in an Advent and Christmas season where everything seems to be going back to normal. With the transition, we see some familiar things that we love and not-so-love: Christmas jingles, traffic brought by the holiday rush, thousands of people at the mall and more faces without face masks. It has been more than two years of the pandemic and, at least, the light at the end of the tunnel has never been so brighter. As we in the field would say, "back to business as usual."
However, wouldn't it be a wasted opportunity to just go back to our old practices? Our continuous improvement as a society rests on our ability to learn from great disruptions and evolve our systems accordingly. Our pre-pandemic nostalgia might blind us from thinking more critically and creatively on how we should face what's next. Thus, I offer three questions for reflection as we hopefully truly move toward the post-pandemic era.
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