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December 30, 2022

Pastor’s Corner

Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! As we start the new year, we may think of the resolutions that we made. I usually like to remind people that you never have to wait a whole year in order to start afresh and get a clean slate. We can have a new start every day. When we wake up and give thanks for all the blessings that the Lord bestows upon us. As we do this, may we rededicate ourselves to His service.

We do this through prayer and penance and making a good soul cleansing and heart wrenching confession in order to start the New Year. On January 1, we celebrate the Solemnity of Mary. Eight days after the savior’s birth, Jesus was circumcised under Levitical Law. On the eighth day, “he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.” Lk 2:21.

The New year is very connected to the Blessed Mother as she was a new mother to our savior. Our lives become different when we become parents. We need to change. We need to make a better life for our own children as we recognize that we need to move away from the sins of our youth and step into the responsibility of being a parent. It is a happy burden, as it fulfills a vocation. In any walk of life, we look to Mary, the Mother of the Church as she ponders and embraces the role to be theotokos mother of God. She gives her assent to God, her fiat, and may we respond with this same willingness to follow Christ in the New Year.

I extend a New Year’s blessing taken from the Book of Numbers 6:22-27:

The LORD bless you and keep you!
The LORD let his face shine upon
you, and be gracious to you!
The LORD look upon you kindly and
give you peace!

Peace to you and your families!

Sincerely Yours,
Fr. David Aufiero
Pastor
003 - Mother of God

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