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- Subject: "One Bread, One Body", Jan 1
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- Friday, January 1, 1993
- Mary, Mother of God
-
- Numbers 6:22-27 Psalm 67
- Galatians 4:4-7 Luke 2:16-21
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- THE SAME OLD "NEW YEAR'S"?
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- "The Lord bless you and keep you! The Lord let His face shine upon you, and
- be gracious to you! The Lord look upon you kindly and give you peace!"
- --Numbers 6:24-26
-
- Many people have the idea that what they do in the first minutes of the new
- year has something to do with the kind of year they'll have. Therefore, they
- bring in the new year with partying. They believe this will make it a good
- new year. Obviously, this doesn't work. But, if we brought in the new year
- by repenting, forgiving, praising, evangelizing, and praying, we would be
- well on our way to a great "new year."
-
- For almost 10 years, the Catholic Church has called us to begin the new year
- with a day of prayer for peace and justice. Most Catholics in the USA have
- ignored this calling and have celebrated the new year with parties and bowl
- games, just as those who don't know Christ. Shouldn't our relationship with
- Christ make us different than non-Christians on every day, and especially on
- New Year's Day?
-
- When Christians are distinctively different on New Year's, we will not have
- just a modified rerun of the secularized old year, but a new year which will
- lead to a new world. Then God's promise will be fulfilled: "If anyone is in
- Christ, he is a new creation. The old order has passed away; now all is new!"
- (II Cor 5:17)
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- Prayer: Mary, pray for me to love your Son in a new and deeper way. May I
- love Him as you do. Jesus, I begin this year by totally giving my
- life to You.
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- Promise: "Mary treasured all these things and reflected on them in her heart."
- --Lk 2:19
-
- Praise: Alleluia! Jesus was born of Mary! Alleluia!
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- From "One Bread, One Body", reproduced with permission.
- Nihil Obstat: Rev. Edward J. Gratsch
- Imprimatur: +Most Rev. James H. Garland, V.G.
- Archdiocese of Cincinnati, August 17, 1992.
-