Happy New Year!
Every year, New Year's Day falls on the 8th Day of Christmas. As we've noted, Christmas didn't end on December 25th. It just got started. Today we begin the home stretch of the 12 Days of Christmas, a time once heartily celebrated by Christians. Now, sadly, too many of us have succumbed to the secular celebrations that began around Thanksgiving and more or less ended on Christmas Day. A few of our neighbors have even taken down their decorations already.
I hope we're all able to get to Mass! Yes?
We're focusing on Mass today because so many Catholics don't attend anymore. Don't be one of them.
Remember the virtue of temperance. Ideally we've called on that virtue during our New Year's Eve celebrations.
On of our posts during Advent addressed the need for the virtue of temperance, especially as it might help us through the work day. For now, let's just recall the definition we shared then:
Temperance: the
righteous habit which makes a man govern his natural appetite for
pleasures of the senses in accordance with the norm prescribed by
reason. Temperance controls the yearning for pleasures and delights which most powerfully attract the human heart. Think: moderation.
This doesn't mean you can't celebrate, of course. Do so, and do so heartily, if you're so inclined. But let moderation keep you sane and safe from sin.
But now we're greeting the New Year: 2026. Hard to believe isn't it. 2025 slipped away - just like that!
Well, that's all for now. Hope you enjoy however you'll ring in the New Year. Oh, and...
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