As we prepare to end one year and enter another, let us look forward with hope and trust in the Lord who is stronger than all darkness. As we look back over the year and think perhaps with mixed feelings, of all its joys and sorrows, all the promises kept and opportunities wasted, it is important for us to be reminded that our Father is the Lord of all time, and in Him all things are truly made new. It may be that we find ourselves looking back on the resolutions which we made at the beginning of the year, on all our good intentions to improve our commitment to prayer and our spiritual life, and feeling disappointed at our inability to live up to our ideals. Perhaps we find ourselves struggling with the same pat terns of sinfulness which we did a year ago and more.
The Church tells us that today is not a day for disappointment over how little we have achieved but a day for joy and anticipation over what God has achieved. Today’s Gospel invites us to turn our eyes away from the slow passage of days and years and to look instead towards the free unending horizon of eternity.
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