Faith-Focused Resolutions: A Catholic Guide to the New Year

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Get the full Girlfriends experience when you subscribe today at daniellebean.substack.comThis week, we are looking at a Catholic take on New Year resolutions, emphasizing personal growth through virtue, the liturgical year, and balancing body, mind, and soul. We share practical suggestions for resolutions that align with our faith, including sacramental living, working on our marriages, deepening relationships with Mary, and fostering community.

Let’s do this together! Let’s focus on small, achievable goals that lead to spiritual growth and fulfillment.

Takeaways

* Setting goals can lead to personal improvement.

* Balance resolutions across body, mind, and soul.

* Engage more deeply with the sacraments this year.

* Develop a closer relationship with Mary.

* Trusting in God is essential for spiritual growth.

* Small, consistent habits can lead to big changes.

* Building community is vital for support and growth.

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0:55.4	Danielle Bean at rooted for good.com. Girlfriends, episode number 453, a Catholic take on New Year
1:02.8	Resolutions. Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth is a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in daily living. This week, we are talking about New Year resolutions because it's 2025. And if you haven't made them yet, don't worry. I've got a fresh take for you. Let's get started.
1:36.6	Hey, girlfriend. How are you? Happy New Year. I think we can say that. I think we can still say it until the end of the month at least. I'm going to say we've got till February to say
1:41.3	happy new year. So, you know what? Maybe you haven't even been tuning
1:45.0	into the Girlfriend's Podcast. I know a lot of people take time off over the holidays. We for sure
1:50.5	did. So maybe we've been out of touch with each other for a little bit. So let's get connected
1:54.7	again. And what a topic. This is an important topic, especially this time of year.
1:59.9	If you're like me, you might have mixed feelings about resolutions. I love them in a lot of ways because I love setting goals. I like thinking about ways that things could be improved, including myself and making steps toward doing those things. But sometimes when we make a commitment, we don't follow through
2:18.5	and we end up feeling like a loser. So maybe that's happened to you at some point in the past.
2:23.6	And you just feel, yeah, I don't want to make any resolutions because I'm afraid I'm just going to
2:27.2	quit them. And we all know every year at our gym in January, there's so many people. It is like mobbed in there. And the people who are
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