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🗓️ 1 January 2020
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0:00.0 | We are on the threshold of a new year 20 20 20 |
0:07.8 | 20 and for most of us that means reflecting on the previous year what went right, what went wrong, and then |
0:15.8 | making a game plan for the next coming year. |
0:20.0 | So I'd like to help you today prep for an outstanding Catholic year. We're going to talk about |
0:26.0 | liturgy and theology and scripture and health and all that and setting proper goals. Now, you might be kind of turned off by that or resolutions |
0:36.2 | but it's a great time to rethink what you do on a daily basis a weekly basis a monthly basis and a yearly basis and also look at the reason why most if not well not all but most goals most New Year's resolutions fail they say within the first 21 days. |
0:53.3 | And I'd like to take a look at why that is |
0:55.8 | and how you can fix that before we jump in |
0:58.1 | to the more Catholic stuff. |
0:59.7 | As I said last year, the key to making proper goals, and I really do think you should make |
1:04.2 | goals because if we're Catholics if we're Tomists we realize that everything |
1:10.0 | about our lives is teleological there's's a telos, there's a final causality and everything that |
1:15.8 | we do in this life is supposed to point us to that final goalpost of the finish line. |
1:22.3 | And for us, as as Catholics it is the |
1:24.7 | beatific vision it's to be a partaker of the divine nature so that's the goal |
1:28.8 | so everything we do on a hourly daily daily, weekly, monthly basis and annual basis should point us to that |
1:36.6 | final goal. |
1:37.6 | So goals are embedded in Catholic life. |
1:41.6 | We are habituated people. We even say that grace is habitual, |
1:45.7 | sanctifying grace is habitual grace. The virtues are habits. |
1:50.3 | Everything that we're doing is habitual and goals are what helps us find that |
1:55.4 | final causality and execute the habit. So in order to have a proper goal it has to be |
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