Always when the Church follows in the wake of secular ideology or culture, ridicule and failure follows. St. Paul points us to the power of God’s message, not human thinking.
In this time of cold and darkness in the Western Hemisphere, we listen to the voice of God, who, as Moses reminded the people of Israel, spoke “from the heart of the fire.”
Continuing our “New Year/new soul” motif, we listen to the words of one of the great Doctors of the Church, who reminds us to become lights beside the great Light - the Lord Jesus.
We are all familiar with Chesterton’s point that a New Year needs a new soul. There is something mystical in Christianity about the concept of the ‘new.’ Let us explore as we begin 2024 - and Happy New Year!