As we celebrate the last few days of the Christmas season and begin the New Year, Jesus turns around and asks us point blank: "What are you looking for?" What do we hope for in this Christmas season? What do we hope 2012 will bring? Some of what we are looking for is straight from the heart of God, but some of it is against the heart and will of God. We should differentiate our self-centered desires from our God-centered ones. We must repent of looking for the wrong things and believe that the Lord will fulfill those desires which are according to His will. Many times we not only have wrong desires; we also have incomplete ones. We don't want and believe in all that God wants. As the song goes, all some people want for Christmas is their "two front teeth." All they want in life is a certain degree of comfort. These desires are too limited to be worthy of a human being and especially of a child of God. We need to be great-souled people desiring, believing in, and receiving the fullness of God's love (see Jn 10:10). What are you looking for in the next four days and in the next year? If you look for God's will, you'll find it (see Jer 29:13-14).One Bread, One Body
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Saint of the Day
1 John 3:7-10
View ReadingsPsalm 98:1, 7-9
John 1:35-42
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Elizabeth Seton was born on August 28, 1774, of a wealthy and distinguished Episcopalian family. She was baptized in the Episcopal faith and was a faithful adherent of the Episcopal Church until her conversion to Catholicism.
She established her first Catholic school in Baltimore in 1808; in 1809, she established a religious community in Emmitsburg, Maryland. After seeing the expansion of her small community of teaching sisters to New York and as far as St. Loius, she died on January 4, 1821, and was declared a saint by Pope Paul VI on September 14, 1975. She is the first native born American to be canonized a saint.