by Greg Beben | Dec 31, 2025 | Meditations
On this first day of the new year, the Church focuses our attention on Mary, the Mother of God. Why is this? As our Sunday meditation told us, the spiritual life is a continual interplay of God’s action and our response. God is always acting to bring us into union...
by Greg Beben | Dec 31, 2024 | Meditations
Today, as we begin a new year, we are especially aware of our existence as creatures who live in time. Another year has passed. For many of us, the years seem to go by ever more quickly. We know that we have a limited time on this earth, and moment by moment our time...
by Greg Beben | Dec 31, 2023 | Meditations
The first day of the new calendar year is usually a time when people extend good wishes to each other – “Happy New Year!” – and look forward in hope toward what the New Year will bring. It is also designated as the Church’s World Day of Peace, a day when we exercise...
by Greg Beben | Dec 31, 2022 | Meditations
We can begin our reflection today by pondering the first lines of the Psalm: “May God bless us in his mercy. May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us.” These words, which were written hundreds of years before Christ’s birth, continue...
by Greg Beben | Dec 31, 2021 | Meditations
Today is both the beginning of the new calendar year and the final day of the Octave of Christmas – the one continuous Day of Christmas in which we ponder the greatest blessing God could ever give his people, his own Son. On this eighth day, we celebrate the joyful...
