What Can We Do As a Family This New Year?

Here are a few positive steps you can take this New Year to become a little more like the Holy Family:

1. Try to schedule a daily or even weekly time of family prayer this year.

Even ten minutes of prayer will make a difference. Don’t worry if some of the kids don’t want to participate (or if that scowl seems to be a permanent impression on their faces!) Do the best you can and don’t give up.

2. Play Christian music around your home, songs that celebrate the truths of our faith in a style that appeals to the ages of your children.

3. Do your best to attend Sunday Mass together. Worshipping the Lord at Mass each week is the glue that binds your family. Perhaps you can stop on the way home for breakfast or donuts.

4. Throughout the year, try to do a better job of balancing your time between your relationship with God, your family, and the demands of your job. We sacrifice so much to our jobs throughout the…

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