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As the new year begins, we often make resolutions and so, I offer the following possible new year's resolutions to consider if one is going to be serious about being an evangelizer. I offer them for myself as well as for those readers who chose to follow my advice.

Every year right after Christmas, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family. There is a reason for this. It’s easy to think “incarnation” means God took on a human body.
But there is much more to it than that.

Busted Halo sent Fr. Jack Collins, CSP, to Times Square to ask people what new year’s resolutions are going to be this year, what feast the Catholic Church celebrates on January 1, and if anyone knows about the biggest resolution ever made in all of human history.

With the glow of Christmas still burning brightly, it's a good time to contemplate the New Year in light of the gift of the Christ child. What does his coming mean to you and how can you take that with you into 2013?

"Americans are frustrated with political gridlock in Congress and want to see their elected officials do their jobs. Congress has not passed a budget in more than three years. Worse yet, it has created an artificial crisis in the fiscal cliff, which will punish American citizens if Congress fails to deal with the budget. There is a "Catholic" solution to this problem."

After the Newtown school schooting, trying to make sense of the senseless. The question on so many minds and in so many hearts is: Why?

"It’s the yearly debate about Advent, and it goes something like this: The first person began, “Why do we start to celebrate Christmas so early? The decorations are up in early November; the carols begin before Thanksgiving; the tree goes up now . . . no wonder we’re sick of Christmas by December 26th!”"
Let's look at what we can do!

"Advent is all about desire," an elderly Jesuit in our community used to say every year as November drew to a close. And whenever he said it, I would say, "Huh?"
But gradually it dawned on me. Christians who celebrate Advent, the liturgical season that precedes Christmas, desire the coming of Christ into their lives in new ways.