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Happy New Year to you and those you love! I hope it’s the best one ever!
In many societies, it is a tradition to make a New Year’s Resolution, something you hope to accomplish in the New Year. Last New Year’s Day, for example, I resolved to publish two books. I’m happy to say I was able to do that plus a bit more.
This year, I plan to publish three books: my 2023 journal and two volumes in my Catholic Missionary Heroes series. That’s easier than it sounds, for I have most of the work done for this project already.
But in the Catholic Church, New Year’s Day is also World Day of Peace. Pope Paul VI declared, in 1967, that henceforth, every January 1 would be World Day of Peace in the Catholic Church. “Peace,” for Catholic Christians, is more than the simple absence of war. Rather, it refers to creating a world where every person is treated with the dignity and respect they deserve as children of God. That means fighting against “social sins” since as poverty, homelessness, joblessness, disease, hunger and loneliness. It also means that we actively engage in caring for our environment so that all of God’s creatures can thrive with clean air and water.
So, as you begin the New Year, please keep world peace in your prayers. And remember, peace begins in our hearts and homes.
Happy New Year!
