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Showing posts with label January 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label January 1. Show all posts
January 1: New Year
A New Year Prayer
Holy Father,
God of our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows.
We praise You for Your unequalled greatness.
Jan 1: Mary, Mother of God - Liturgical Prayers
Greeting
A. Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Option 1)
God sent his Son, born of a woman,
to enable us to become God's children.
Through the Spirit of the Son we can cry out to God:
"Father, my Father!"
May Jesus, this Son, be always with you.
R/ And also with you.
Jan 1: Mary, Mother of God: Stories and Illustrations
From the Collection of Fr. Tony Kadavil and Others
1: Smiling child and his mother: There is a
beautiful little story about a long, tedious train journey, made one
Christmas day by some elderly residents of a nursing home who were on
their way to a vacation spot. At one station, a young mother with a
small child entered the train. The child smiled at all the grim faces
around him and began moving from one lap to another talking, shouting with
joy and chatting with everyone. Instantly, the grim and
silent atmosphere in the train was changed to one of joy and happiness.
Today we remember with joy and gratitude, how Mary and her Divine Son
Jesus transformed a hopeless, joyless and sinful world into a place
of joy and happiness.
New Year: Quotes, Prayers, etc
What’s in a Name?. . . . . . . . . . . . .Complete Speaker’s Almanac, p. 22
"Here we are in a month named after the Roman god Janus, an appropriate personification of the start of the new year. This particular Roman god had two faces so that he could look ahead toward the future and back at the past at the same time. As we get rid of an old year and look forward to a new one, we all try to be a little like Janus. We know through experience what we did wrong and what we did right, and hope to do better this year. Some people make ambitious new year’s resolutions; others just take a deep breath and hope for the best.…"
Jan 1: Mary, Mother of God
New Year 2014 from heartnoi2k
Thomas O’LoughlinGeneral Notes
The most basic fact about today is that it is New Year’s Day, the public holiday that marks the end of the holiday season, and the beginning of any number of other things from diaries to keeping accounts of various sorts. In everyone’s eyes it is a special day. If we think of time as made up of ‘stressed’ (= special days; special time) and ‘unstressed'(= ordinary days; everyday time) periods, then this is a ‘stressed’ day par excellence.
Jan 1: Mary, Mother of God - Liturgical Prayers
Greeting (See second Reading)
God sent his Son, born of a woman,
to enable us to become God's children.
Through the Spirit of the Son we can cry out to God:
"Father, my Father!"
May Jesus, this Son, be always with you.
R/ And also with you.
Introduction by the Celebrant
God sent his Son, born of a woman,
to enable us to become God's children.
Through the Spirit of the Son we can cry out to God:
"Father, my Father!"
May Jesus, this Son, be always with you.
R/ And also with you.
Introduction by the Celebrant
NEW YEAR - Illustrations
Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth
Proverbs 27:1.
Come now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away
James 4:13-14.
Proverbs 27:1.
Come now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away
James 4:13-14.
Jan 1: Mary, Mother of God
New Year 2014 from heartnoi2k
Thomas O’LoughlinGeneral Notes
The most basic fact about today is that it is New Year’s Day, the public holiday that marks the end of the holiday season, and the beginning of any number of other things from diaries to keeping accounts of various sorts. In everyone’s eyes it is a special day. If we think of time as made up of ‘stressed’ (= special days; special time) and ‘unstressed'(= ordinary days; everyday time) periods, then this is a ‘stressed’ day par excellence.
New Year
A New Year Prayer
Holy Father,
God of our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows.
We praise You for Your unequalled greatness.
January 1: Mary, Mother of God and New Year
Thomas O’Loughlin
Introduction to today’s Celebration
Introduction to today’s Celebration
This is a great day of joy the world over: a new year has
just begun and with it is the hope of new relationships of peace, new
endeavours to make life better for the human family, and resolutions to start
afresh in many areas of our individual lives. We as Christians share this joy
for our good news is that the Father of mercies is always extending his love
and care so that we can return to him and start over afresh. In sending us his
Son as a human being born of Mary in Bethlehem he showed the depth of that
love: he offered a new era to the whole human race, and now we are celebrating
the beginning of the two thousandth and twelfth year of that era. Now let us
reflect on all that we want to start afresh in the coming year, let us ask the
Father to help us overcome the old ways of sin and death, and to give us his
help in our new endeavours.
Jan 1-Mary, Mother of God - Homilies and Stories
Anecdote: There is a beautiful,
little story about a long, tedious train journey made, one Christmas day, by
some elderly residents of a nursing home who were on their way to a vacation
spot. At one station, a young mother with a small child entered the train. The child
smiled at all the grim faces around him and began moving from one lap to
another talking, shouting with joy and chatting with everyone. Instantly, the
grim and silent atmosphere in the train was changed to one of joy and
happiness. Today we remember with joy and gratitude, how Mary and her Divine
Son Jesus transformed a hopeless, joyless and sinful world into a place of joy
and happiness.
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A boy asked his father, "Dad, if three frogs were sitting on a limb that hangs over a pool, and one frog decided to jump off into the pool, how many frogs would be left on the limb?"
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A boy asked his father, "Dad, if three frogs were sitting on a limb that hangs over a pool, and one frog decided to jump off into the pool, how many frogs would be left on the limb?"
The dad replied, "Two."
"No," the son replied. “Here is the question again: There are three frogs and one decided to jump, how many are left?"
The dad said, "Oh, I get the point! If one decided to jump, the others would too. So there are none left."
The boy said, "No dad, the answer is three. The frog only DECIDED to jump."
Does that sound like our last year’s resolutions? Great inspiration and great resolutions, but oftentimes we only decide, and months later we are still on the same limb of doing nothing.
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New Year - Another Prayer
A New Year Prayer
Holy Father,
God of our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows.
We praise You for Your unequalled greatness.
Thank You for the year behind us and for the year ahead.
Help us in Your new year, Father, to fret less and laugh
more.To teach our children to laugh by laughing with them.
To teach others to love by loving them.
Knowing, when Love came to the stable in Bethlehem, He came
for us.
So that Love could be with us, and we could know You.That we could share Love with others.
Jan 1: Mary, Mother of God and New Year
Mary, Mother of God and New Year
Anecdote: There is a beautiful, little story about a long, tedious train journey made, one Christmas day, by some elderly residents of a nursing home who were on their way to a vacation spot. At one station, a young mother with a small child entered the train. The child smiled at all the grim faces around him and began moving from one lap to another talking, shouting with joy and chatting with everyone. Instantly, the grim and silent atmosphere in the train was changed to one of joy and happiness. Today we remember with joy and gratitude, how Mary and her Divine Son Jesus transformed a hopeless, joyless and sinful world into a place of joy and happiness.
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