As another year passes into eternity, the world marks the moment with noise, lights, and forced cheer. Glasses are raised, resolutions proclaimed, and men congratulate themselves for having survived the turning of the calendar. Yet Holy Mother Church, ever the teacher of souls, invites us to a far more serious—and far more hopeful—reckoning.
For the Catholic, the year does not end at midnight with a countdown, but at the foot of the Judgment Seat of Christ.
To greet one another at the close of the year is therefore not merely a social courtesy. It is an act of charity—an acknowledgment that we have been given time, that time has been spent, and that an account must be rendered. It is in this spirit that Radical Fidelity addresses its readers at the year’s end.
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