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We all have a tendency to think that SOMEDAY we will be happy, content and financially stable. But if we don’t start today, we’ll never get there.

Join us for 10 easy steps you can take today to improve your monthly finances: track your spending; review monthly payments; determine if you still need to pay PMI on your mortgage; earn more; review insurance; discern wants vs needs; question every purchase; set spending priorities; stop shopping as entertainment; quit comparing yourself with others.

Listen in and check out the Compass Catholic blog to learn more about ways to start improving your monthly budget today.

On December 28th a group of Jewish were attacked during a Hanukkah celebration. Today, I speak about the gift of the Jewish people in my life. I also speak about the dangers of language around these issues and anti-Semitism. My god continue to bless the Jewish people.

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I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions, but I do like to take some time at the end of the year to set goals. Resolutions are great; except we rarely follow through on them and that can make us feel like failures.  Why not try something different this year? Decide what you want to do less, then, find something opposite and positive that you want to do more.  In this podcast, Tony discusses more and less.

Scripture: “Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.” — Romans 12:2

Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds; if each of you deals justly with his neighbor; if you no longer oppress the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow; if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place, or follow strange gods to your own harm, will I remain with you in this place, in the land which I gave your fathers long ago and forever.” –Jeremiah 7:5-7

Reflections: What do you want to do more and less?  What are a few of your more or less goals? What changes do you want to make in 2020?

Drawing on his book Meeting the Protestant Challenge, Karlo Broussard asks: How can the Church teach that non-immersion baptisms are valid when the Bible speaks only of baptisms that were done by immersion? And how can the Catholic Church baptize infants when Jesus makes it clear that one must believe first and then be baptized?

Reflect on the wonderful, transformative moment when the Magi encounter and offer gifts to baby Jesus. Begin the year with a vibrant discussion on a beautiful Gospel for Sunday, January 5, 2020.