All The Lonely People By Maggie Fergusson

ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE by Maggie Fergusson Earlier this year, the government appointed a Minister for Loneliness: a response to what has been called an ‘invisible epidemic’. Why are so many of us - of all ages and backgrounds - afflicted by loneliness? What does it feel like to be very lonely? And is there a cure? MAGGIE FERGUSSON is Literary Editor of The Tablet and a freelance writer. In the spring, she published a long piece on loneliness in the Economist magazine 1843. This resource is provided free. If you would like to support our mission to communicate and nurture meditation in the Christian tradition as passed on through the teaching of John Main OSB, please contribute here: tiny.cc/donatetoWCCM