This homily, based on Luke 2:16-21, is for New Year’s Day and the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.
Today, New Year’s Day, there is one line that comes to mind. And I love saying it: “The best is yet to come!”
Yet it’s not always something easy to say–and to believe!
Not when things aren’t quite right. And especially not when the way the world is turning out isn’t quite to our liking–or the way people behave is, to say the least, bewildering–or to tell it like it is, disheartening.