A Sign of Hope: A Letter From the Netherlands Conference â22

I am not an event person and I tend to be cautious in my pronouncements, so when a friend asked me how the âMissionary Parishâ conference went and I said, it was âfantastic!â
She looked at me, surprised, and said, âReally?â
Really.
It was, I told her, the most hopeful development Iâve seen in the Church in the Netherlands in the last twenty years: a thousand people from around the country and from Flanders, all eager bring on better days in their parish.