Why is it that we tend to make New Year’s Resolutions that make us crabby? You don’t like treadmills – do that! You don’t like salad – eat lots more of that! After all, as Catholics, the whole year is not meant to be a season of penance (though I’m not one to knock healthy habits). Perhaps we could resolve to add more of something to our lives that we enjoy and ought to do more.
When we look into the future of a fallen situation – as many in the Catholic Church are doing today – we tend to find ourselves faced with two options. The first option is to conserve what has worked in the past with a disregard for the reality of the present. The second is to progress beyond the present with a disregard for what really has worked in the past. There really isn’t much difference between the two.