What’s your New Year’s faith resolution?
We asked, and you answered! Catholics from around the Archdiocese of Seattle share their New Year's faith resolutions.
- Written by Northwest Catholic
Catholic Voices
How confession and Communion go hand in hand
Do you want the Eucharist to change your life? One of the most fruitful ways we can celebrate the Year of the Eucharist as the people of God is to look at the lives of the saints who have gone before us. Seeing how the Eucharist changed their lives offers a pattern for how it can change our lives.
- Written by Father Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P.
Family: A school of deeper humanity
Christians see the world differently. Many in our culture see life as an opportunity to define ourselves and live our dreams. In contrast, we Christians follow Jesus who “humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8).
- Written by Deacon Eric Paige
12 New Year's eucharistic resolutions
It is common to begin a new year defining 12 resolutions that will help us to be better. As we celebrate the Year of the Eucharist in the Archdiocese of Seattle, I propose the following resolutions to benefit from this jubilee and grow even closer to the Eucharistic Jesus.
- Written by Mauricio I. Pérez
Finding God in silence
When I was young and somehow given the chance to stay home alone, I loved to sit in the quiet house and hear what I could hear. It was strange to me that even without my sisters playing or my great-grandmother’s television blaring, the house was not quiet. I could hear the hum of the refrigerator and the lull of the cars on the main street beyond ours — even our house crackled as it settled.
- Written by Shemaiah Gonzalez
What difference does Mass make?
Dear Kianna,
So many people go to Mass, and it seems like it makes no practical difference in their lives. What’s the point?
– Seeker
- Written by Kianna Garmanian
What’s the best non-material gift you’ve received?
We asked, and you answered! Catholics from around the Archdiocese of Seattle share the best non-material gifts they’ve received.
- Written by Northwest Catholic
Imagining the infant Christ
I couldn’t sleep. It was a cold and cozy December night. Maybe I ate too many cookies. Or had a list that wouldn’t stop unrolling itself in my head. All I know is I was awake. I left my husband snoring deeply in our bed, curled up on the living room couch with the remote and searched for something to watch on television.
- Written by Shemaiah Gonzalez