TO YOU ALL

“I wish you all, dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, a Blessed and a Healthy New Year 2012.”
May your life in the New Year be full of Peace, not the Peace where there is no strife, no wars or no troubles, but that interior Peace, the Peace that only God can give. The Peace that results from intimate union with HIM. When we are free from all types of problems, such as, ill-health, family problems, social problems, and poverty, we might feel comfortable, maybe happy, but we might still lack the interior PEACE. May you have PEACE through HIM.

Yes wealth might provide us with a big, spacious, expensive house, a mansion, but never a HOME. Wealth might give us access to too much sex life, but we will never discover LOVE. Wealth might help us to consult all the medical experts in medicine, but cannot always restore HEALTH, much less to ACCEPT. The answer is always, to consult HIM. May you all be wealthy in your relations with HIM.

May your life in the New year be full of Love, not the Love commercialized by the media, the cheap love of self and egoism, but the Love which springs out of the ocean of Love, out of the Source of Love, that Love which is a ‘spark’ from from God Who is Love itself. May you discover the source of LOVE and live in it.

May your life in the New Year be full of health, not the health that makes us strong and unbeatable in the face of rivals, nor the health that puts our mind at rest and forget others who are weak, sick and poor, but that health of Mind and Spirit. Let us never forget that a bed-ridden person, with all the ailments in the world might be a ’happy’ person, whilst others who are healthy and strong, yet, they lack peace of heart …….. these are the sick persons. May you all have health in HIM.

May every day in the New Year be always a New Life, not a new life because you do not grow older in years, not because you look younger every day, not because you feel stronger every day, but because you feel close and closer to HIM, who sustains each and every one, because of your intimacy with LIFE itself…..”I am the LIFE”. May you all have a NEW LIFE in HIM.

We can have a New Life every single day of our life, whenever we receive the Source of life in us, whenever we receive the Holy Eucharist, whenever we become one with Christ. We might be old in age, but the Eucharist gives us new life, new strength, new peace, and fills us with Love, and keeps us young in HIS Love.

This is what I wish from the bottom of my heart, whenever I greet someone with the Seasonal Wishes of ‘A Happy New Year’. This Greeting has become so commonplace, even toddlers can say it, but, what we really mean by that wish is hidden deep down in our hearts.

May you ALL have a New Life full of Peace, Love, Health and New Life throughout the New Year, through Jesus Christ.