Holy Name + January 1, 2017
M Campbell-Langdell All Santos Oxnard ( Numbers 6:22–27; Ps. 8; Gal. 4:4–7; Luke 2:15–21) Happy New Year! Today is a day when many of us think of how we want to live in the coming year. Maybe we want to do more exercise or a project or graduate from a school program and we sit down to make those plans around now, when the year feels fresh. And these goals are good ones. But I would like to say that none of these goals matters if we don’t focus on who we serve. When you think about your goals for the next year, do you focus on serving God? Do you think of this question: in whose name do you serve? Because we are called to serve in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. And today, in addition to the New Year’s Day of the calendar, we celebrate not just when Jesus was given a name and circumcised, since Mary and Joseph were good Jews; but we also celebrate the day on which we remember in whose name we live. Because all of our efforts should be in Jesus’ name. I read an arti...