Happy New Year: I Firmly Resolve… Can New Years Resolutions Work?

Catholic Online ^ | 1/1/10 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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The celebrations have begun already in Sydney, Australia where 1.5 million people participated in massive fireworks displays and festivities. Final preparations are being made in Times Square, New York where authorities are expecting the largest crowd in the history of such New Years gatherings. At midnight, the ball will drop and a massive crowd will welcome a New Year with the sincere hope that it will offer them a new beginning.

The experience is nearly universal. Some Nations use different calendars, but the passing of one year to another is marked by a deliberate period of reflection over the past year and a pledge to begin anew, to change, in the one to come. New Years Eve is a great existential moment, ripe with expectations. It invites a spiritually cathartic reflection and offers possibility and hope. One of the nearly universal customs is the making of “New Years Resolutions”....

We all want to change as we end one year and look to a new one. In a rare moment of near universal reflection and honest self assessment, we admit our failures. We pledge to learn from them and move toward a better future...Without grace we simply cannot keep these New Years resolutions. But with grace - which is a participation in the very life of God - we really can.

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New Years Eve is a great existential moment, ripe with expectations. It invites a spiritually cathartic reflection and offers hope.We all want to change as we end one year and look to a new one. In a rare moment of near universal reflection and honest self assessment, we admit our failures. We pledge to learn from them and move toward a better future.

[YHAOS]

A resolution has worked for me for 45 years.

[redhead]

Bumping for later. This could get good!

[Tax-chick]

This year, that is, next year, I’m going to learn to use my scanner/printer, digital camera, photo printer, Photobucket account, and cell phone. It’s getting just *impossible* to get the technically-competent family members to do all this for me!

[GUNGAGALUNGA]

if you are married and want to have more sex in the new year...then no they do not work

[Salvation]

Instead of the perennial resolution
“I will lose weight this year.”

How about something better every way you look at it?

I will pray every day, read the Bible every day, go to Daily Mass.

What do you want to do to grow spiritually?

Those are the resolutions that God will help one keep!!!!!!!