Dear Parishioners,
A new beginning like that offered with each new day, but for a whole year! So now is the time to get out a calendar and to block out the year ahead, week by week, month by month, season upon season. What activities do you plan to do this year? What things would you like to accomplish? Have anything to wrap up this year? Maybe something to start?
That is what the New Year is all about: a time to begin, a time to finish, a time to look forward, a time to recall, a time to seek, a time to fund, a time for us all to be all that we are and all that God created us to be!
From the viewpoint of both the Church and the secular world, we will now be in a new year of Grace. For the Church, New Year's came on the First Sunday of Advent, and for the world, it comes on January 1st. With God there is no time. God is eternal, without beginning and without ending. A thousand years in God's sight is but a moment past. We, however, live in time, the time given to us by God, the Creator of time. Time is given to us to live in, for and through God. Time is made holy (or unholy) by how we use it, either to the glory of God, or to the glory of ourselves, as we are known to God.
May your New Year be the happiest of your life and may many blessings be yours.
Fr. Jan
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