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Seeing 2020 with eyes of faith

The year 2020 harkens to people having 20/20 vision, so to mark the new year, the Catholic Standard heard from Catholics with different backgrounds from throughout the Archdiocese of Washington, in effect to get a Catholic slant on New Year’s resolutions in this special year. How will you deepen your faith and draw closer to Jesus in the new year?

In this series

Catholic teens reflect on drawing closer to Christ in 2020

As part of a special new year’s series for the Catholic Standard newspaper and website of the Archdiocese of Washington on “Seeing 2020 with eyes of faith,” Catholics from across...

Sister, priests, deacon, bishop and seminarian offer insights on 2020

As part of a special new year’s series for the Catholic Standard newspaper and website of the Archdiocese of Washington on “Seeing 2020 with eyes of faith,”...

Family that became Catholic in 2019 rings in new year with faith

The year 2019 was one of special blessings for Sameer Patel and his wife Zeena Lafeer and their sons Zayd, Rayn and Raif, who were baptized as new Catholics at the Easter Vigil in...

Catholic family members offer insights for drawing closer to Christ in 2020

As part of a special new year’s series for the Catholic Standard newspaper and website of the Archdiocese of Washington on “Seeing 2020 with eyes of faith,”...

Lay Catholics offer new year faith resolutions for 2020

“I want to look more deeply at each person as a piece of the mosaic of beauty God created – and focus -- so that my words and actions will reflect my faith in each...

Catholic young adults offer insights on deepening their faith in the new year

“Recently, I have been struck by the deacon’s words at the end of Mass, ‘Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.’ In 2020, I am going to try...

Archbishop Gregory reflects on drawing closer to Jesus in the new year

The actual changing of the calendar to welcome in a new year has never been a particularly important event for me personally. I don’t attend festive gatherings. I am usually...

January Junior Saints: Ways we will grow in faith in the new year

For the January Junior Saints, schoolchildren throughout the Archdiocese of Washington pondered and then wrote about and drew pictures showing how they will deepen their faith and...