resolution

“If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands!”
That’s the way the old refrain goes, and with all the blessings our people enjoy you’d think we’d be getting tired of the noise made by all of those hands…

I’m less inclined to make New Year’s resolutions than to make daily (and especially monthly) resolutions when I go to regular Confession. For Catholics, making resolutions is an ongoing activity. We are taught to make a daily examination of conscience…

Admit it or not, we still make resolutions – New Year’s resolutions, if you will – because the beginning of a new year seems an especially good time to start one. No one knows exactly when the tradition began, but…