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Catholic Activity: New Year's Family Resolutions

Here is an introspective practice, to see whether or not your family has kept its past New Year's resolutions.

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On New Year's Day, the Octave of Christmas, formerly called the feast of the Circumcision, the family might write out its resolutions for the coming year and put them away in a sealed envelope, to be examined next New Year's Eve, just to see . . .

Activity Source: Homemade Christians by Mary Reed Newland, George A. Pflaum, Dayton, Ohio, 1964

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