I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions because I usually forget them by the second day of the year. This year, I thought that I would not go for any big resolution that I wouldn’t be able to accomplish through the course of the year. Rather, I have decided to be much more practical and to make small resolutions that I will be able to keep throughout the year. Since this is a religious blog, I thought that I would talk about several of the resolutions that I have taken with regard to my Faith.
1. Daily Morning and Evening Prayers: Although this sounds like a no brainer to a lot of people, I really have a hard time with this, but I have decided that I will recite my morning and evening prayers thise year no matter how busy I am. It’s important to start and end the day right by spending time with Our Lord. After all, He is with us almost every day and yet we cannot spend a couple of minutes every morning and evening? Come on, people, we should spend as much time with Him as we can.
2. To recite the Breviary daily. Although I am by no means a monastic or a priest, I think that it is important to be attuned to the life of the Church as it goes through the regular cycle of seasons. There are a lot of books out there that can be read through the course of a year on this topic, but I think that the Breviary is the book par excellence. After all, it is one of the Church’s official prayer books and it contains edifying commentaries on the Scriptures and King David’s Psalter. What better way to talk to God than through the Breviary and what better language than Latin, English, or the Slavonic tongues?
Are there any resolutions that you are making that you would like to keep this New Year? Let’s pray for those as well.
Our Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for us!
St. Alphonsus Liguori, pray for us!
