Happy New Year to all of you and may it be a year in which we all grow stronger in our Faith and in the relationships we have with one another!

This month we’ll have three parts to our regular meeting and all are focused on building our own spiritual lives:

• We’ll be talking (for a short while) on our New Year’s resolutions; Do we make them and, if so, how successful have we been in keeping them?  Why is it so difficult to do?  Even with the best intention (and prayer), many of us find it difficult to stick to them. 
• Secondly, with a lot going on in our churches today, particularly within our Diocese, we’d like to spend some time looking at what has been helpful in building up our own Faith.  What have we found helpful in our parish life, in our personal lives and what more would we like to see happen. 
• Lastly, in the Fall we talked about the ACTS retreats.  Brendan McDonald, along with several others, shared their experiences of this powerful retreat-based Faith weekend.  The opportunity for participating is coming soon and Brendan is coming back to share how we can be part of the next one in February. As Brendan and many others have related, it’s a life-changing, Faith-deepening experience.