Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian

Happy New Year! Did you know that Advent marks the beginning of the Church year? Even though we're already a week into it, there's still time to say, Happy "Church" New Year! to someone today. P.S. Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception! It's a Holy Day of Obligation -- so get thee to Mass!

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Today, at any moment when you begin to feel impatient, take a deep breath, look around you, and be present in this moment of waiting.