Celebrate Christmas through Epiphany by hosting a Twelfth Night party at your newly blessed home (see page 3 for the blessing). Holding such an event is especially fitting if your goals for the year include living more liturgically at home or increasing your hospitality. If you have a willing crowd, you can sing Christmas hymns, particularly “We Three Kings.” Although it doesn’t have to be as grand as the Twelfth Night balls and village parties during medieval times, you can serve traditional food and drink such as an English Twelfth Night Cake and wassail. Find more ideas at www.twelvedays.com and a recipe for wassail at www.themagicalslowcooker.com.
If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution and need some help keeping it, it may be helpful to remember to ask Our Lord for help. You may also seek the intercession of a favorite saint or one related to your resolution such as St. Sebastian for health and exercise goals or St. Jude for overcoming a bad habit. Even if you don’t plan to make a resolution for 2024, Lent is fast approaching, and it can be helpful to start discerning what you may be called to do. Prayer can give you strength to keep those resolutions, too. Find one at www.aleteia.org.