{"id":73015,"date":"2025-01-01T07:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=73015"},"modified":"2025-01-01T07:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T12:15:56","slug":"new-year-and-the-mother-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/new-year-and-the-mother-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year And The Mother Of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Jersey Catholic:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jerseycatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/marymoter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 1, Catholics celebrate Mary\u2019s motherhood of Jesus and observe the\u00a0<a href=\"jc: Are there any traditions Catholics follow in addition to going to Mass?%C2%A0Many%20people%20in%20the%20world%20present%20the%20New%20Year%20as%20a%20time%20for%20making%20resolutions.%20And%20there%E2%80%99s%20certainly%20never%20a%20bad%20time%20to%20make%20a%20resolution.%20In%20the%20Catholic%20tradition,%20we%20have%20lots%20of%20opportunities%20to%20make%20resolutions%20every%20day.%20Certainly%20when%20you%20go%20to%20confession%20to%20make%20a%20resolution%20not%20to%20sin%20again.%20When%20you%20go%20on%20retreat,%20make%20some%20retreat%20resolutions.%20Lent%20is%20a%20time%20of%20great%20resolution.%20So%20there%E2%80%99s%20nothing%20particularly%20sacred%20about%20resolutions%20for%20Jan.%201.%20But%20it%E2%80%99s%20kind%20of%20like%20a%20time%20to%C2%A0start%20all%20over%20again.%20It%E2%80%99s%20an%20opportunity.\">Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The title \u201cMother of God\u201d is a western derivation from the Greek \u201cTheotokos,\u201d which means \u201cGod-bearer.\u201d\u00a0 We are reminded of the role she played in the salvation of humankind.<\/p>\n<p>In the 13th and 14th\u00a0centuries, Jan. 1 was the date of the Feast of Circumcision. In Jewish law, circumcision would occur eight days after birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was considered to be the first shedding of Jesus\u2019 blood,\u201d said Father John Gordon, Secretary for Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Newark.<\/p>\n<p>When the Novus Ordo\u00a0was introduced in 1968, the liturgical calendar was revised, and the Feast of the Circumcision was sidelined for the Solemnity of Mary.<\/p>\n<p>When we celebrate Mary as the Mother of God, we are saying something not so much about Mary, but about Jesus. Jesus is both fully God and fully human and as the woman who bore him, Mary\u2019s unique role in the history of salvation is unparalleled, said Father Gordon. She is also a model for us on how to live and how to welcome Jesus into our hearts and our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Many people make resolutions on New Year\u2019s Day as an opportunity to start anew. As Catholics, we are blessed to have many opportunities to make resolutions not just on New Year\u2019s but throughout the year as well such as when we go to confession or attend a retreat. Lent is also a time of great resolution.<\/p>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<p><em>[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=LP7HG57HUU5HW&amp;source=url\">Donation: we appreciate it!<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1735715517\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"New Year And The Mother Of God\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Jersey Catholic: On Jan. 1, Catholics celebrate Mary\u2019s motherhood of Jesus and observe the\u00a0Solemnity of Mary, Mother of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}