If you are Catholic and you didn’t make a New Year’s resolution may I suggest that you don’t bother. They are quite ridiculous for the most part. When was the last time you heard anybody at a New Year’s Eve party talk about being successful at fulfilling the previous year’s resolutions? Most resolutions are wishes and seem so big that after trying for a month (or a day) they are conveniently forgotten.
Far more realistic are the resolutions we make
all during the year particularly when preparing for and celebrating the sacrament of confession. For those who practice regularly (monthly) we have the constant reviewing of what is going well in our lives and where we are missing the mark, to identify weaknesses, build on strengths, and making resolutions to do better over the next four weeks. Unlike a New Year’s resolution, it isn’t fixing everything with one day’s fell swoop resolve, it is the inching every day toward that better version of the self with the constant help of self review and Divine assistance. It is a far better plan than a once-a-year promise made after one glass of champagne too many.
So perhaps there is a great New Year’s resolution after all: to make better and more regular use of the sacrament of resolutions: The sacrament of Penance.
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