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Here you find the English text of the speech I delivered in the Saint Nicholas Co-Cathedral Basilica in Amsterdam at the New Years reception of this year 2026. Several themas are dealt with, regarding church-life and society in the Netherlands.

At the beginning of this Jubilee Year 2025 we started our New Year's reception with an Evensong and a Word about today's situation... (Under the English text you find an Italian translation; sotto il testo Ingelese si trova una traduzione Italiana).

On the 12th of january we celebrated an Evensong in the basilica of Saint Nicholas in Amsterdam and we were together for our New Years's reception in the adjacent hotel. It was again a beautiful event, in which many people took part. A nice start of the new year. Our world however is not so nice and calm. How can we build a "civilisation of love"?