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Sunday, December 03, 2017
New Church Year Resolutions
The following is a re-post of one I wrote 3 years ago, and I still think the idea of Advent resolutions is a good one since we are beginning a new church/liturgical year.
Advent Resolutions:
Today is the first Sunday of Advent, and it marks the beginning of a new Church year. I never have been too keen on New Year's resolutions as the whole new year thing always seemed rather arbitrary to me.
After all, who made January 1 the first day of the new year? Julius Caesar? Pope Gregory XIII?
Do we really want our year's beginning be a remembrance of a two faced god?
Janus: the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past.
Nope, not me, no way.
Perhaps every day should mark a new beginning, and it should demand new resolutions from us.
Nope, that would be too tough.
The liturgical year begins today, so why not start the year with Advent resolutions?
I can hear it now, "Are you nuts?"
Yes I am.
So this year I resolve to...
Oh God, I hate resolutions, and I hate to write them down. That makes them so permanent.
Alright, I resolve to pray daily.
Today I will pray for peace as our Choral Society will today when they sing Vivaldi's Gloria which includes "Et in Terra Pax".
Luke 2:14 "Gloria in altissimis Deo et in terra pax in hominibus bonae voluntatis."
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