We’re kicking off the New Year by talking about the importance (and pitfalls) of making resolutions, setting goals, and crafting a vision for the year. How, as Catholics, should we approach these things? And how, as Catholics, do we make sense of God having different plans for our year than our own?

Show Notes:

Catechism of the Catholic Church 1500: “Illness and suffering have always been among the gravest problems confronted in human life. In illness, man experiences his powerlessness, his limitations, and his finitude. Every illness can make us glimpse death.”

Steubenville’s Nutcracker Village

On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, , Singing, Dancing by Father James Schall, SJ

St. Thomas Aquinas on Smell (Summa, Prima Pars, Q. 91)

“Will Video Kill the Audio Star in 2025?”

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