Q) With the start of the New Year, I always feel like I should make a resolution. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. Either way, I never end up keeping them, and it just feels like I never change. What do you recommend?
Many couples are proud of the fact that they cooperate well together. I have heard couples say, in a self-congratulatory manner, “We are good at give and take. We compromise very well. We go 50-50 on lots of things. It goes my way about half the time. It goes my spouse’s way the other half. It is workable. It is practical. We are getting along just fine.”
A woman in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults admitted that she had almost no knowledge of Christianity until she met her husband-to-be. In fact, she said, the only thing she knew about Jesus when she was growing up was what she had heard in a few Christmas songs.
Are you looking for the Lord this Christmas? Then consider casting your gaze closer to home than you might at first feel inclined to do, the Gospel of John seems to suggest in the immensely thought-provoking and highly familiar Gospel reading heard this Christmas Day during Masses in Catholic churches.
One of the highlights of a pilgrimage I took to the Holy Land with grandparents from our archdiocese three years ago was to celebrate Sunday Mass in one of the caves outside of Bethlehem where the shepherds were watching their sheep on Christmas night.