We are already two weeks into the New Year! Before we know it, the time will have passed us by again, and we will be asking "Where did 2017 go?" Canon Sheehan in one of his sermons said that we will feel the same way on our deathbed - "Where did my life go?" Therefore let us treasure each moment as a special gift and put it to good use.

"Another long span of life is passed for each of us, one of those multitudes of moments which men call years is at an end, and again it is my duty to remind you of a few solemn truths, which, if not periodically meditated upon, very soon lose their vast solemnity and significance....

"I pity the man who is self-satisfied in this world, who is too proud to examine himself, too blind to detect his faults, too puffed up by conceit to confess that he is human, who lives a life of self-complacency, and never hears the bitter warnings of remorse. 

"But there is something truly sublime about the soul, that in a good heart, and a very good heart, is ever striving to be better, is ever dissatisfied with itself....If therefore we feel remorse for our remissness during the past year, it proves, at least, that we are sincere, and to the sincere man all things are possible. The present is yet in our power and the future."

~ Sermons of P.A. Canon Sheehan, D.D., edited by M.J. Phelan, SJ, imprimatur 1920.