This is New Year’s Eve and many of us will be celebrating tonight with friends and family and waiting for the stroke of midnight which will signal the arrival of 2011, the New Year. There may be much jollity, food and drink and, perhaps, some fireworks.
New Year’s Eve is celebrated worldwide. Midnight sees out the old year with all of its associated problems and welcomes in the new year with the hope that it will be a better one than the one that went before it.
Today is also the feast of St. Sylvester, a 4th-century Pope who reigned during the time of Constantine the Great. He was born in Rome, supposedly the son of a Roman soldier, and was pontiff for nearly 25 years. He died in 335 and is buried in the church he built over the Priscilla Catacombs.
Let us hope that the New Year will be a decent one and that, for those who choose to honour him today, St. Sylvester will look beneficently upon them. In both cases, I hope so.
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New Year’s Eve is celebrated worldwide. Midnight sees out the old year with all of its associated problems and welcomes in the new year with the hope that it will be a better one than the one that went before it.
Today is also the feast of St. Sylvester, a 4th-century Pope who reigned during the time of Constantine the Great. He was born in Rome, supposedly the son of a Roman soldier, and was pontiff for nearly 25 years. He died in 335 and is buried in the church he built over the Priscilla Catacombs.
Let us hope that the New Year will be a decent one and that, for those who choose to honour him today, St. Sylvester will look beneficently upon them. In both cases, I hope so.
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