Happy New Year from Catholic Answers, I'm Cy Kellett, your host.

Thanks so much for being here with us on this

first day of 21, which I am told from reliable sources is going to be the greatest year ever.

That's what I've been told. This is going to be the greatest year ever. So I can't tell you who my

sources are. But I'm just, they're my hopes, actually. I consulted my hopes, and that's what my

hope said. This is going to be the greatest year ever. Very, very happy New Year to you. But

for us Catholics, it's the first day of the year is not just a happy new year. It's also a

solemnity, the solemnity of Mary, the mother of God. And so, first of all, what's a solemnity?

A solemnity is a feast of the church. It's just a feast day like any other feast day,

except it's the top kind. It's the number one top kind of solemnity. So we start the year

honoring Mary with her title, Mother of God. And so who... And we also must continue to say,

Merry Christmas. And it's also Christmas. And that, of course, is the voice of the one person you

would want here to honor Mary Mother of God. Tim Staples, the author of the book,

Behold Your Mother, a biblical and historical defense of the Marian doctrines. Thank you for being

with us, Tim. It's great to be with you, brother.

I hope all has gone well because we're pre-recording this.

So I hope that New Year's Eve was peaceful and everything was great.

I always have this fear that like something happened and then we're going to sound like we're all happy and something bad happened.

But I hope nothing did.

And I hope all is well.

And it's the Christmas season. And I'm going to actually

start by asking you to defend Mary, because believe it or not, just before Christmas, in the

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