From my family to yours, I want to wish you a very Happy and Joyful New Year! I pray that Mary, the Mother of God, on this most holy Solemnity of her Motherhood, may continue to bring you closer to Our Savior, Jesus Christ, during this new year. May Our Lady, as Mother, be our aide to grow closer to Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church.

With the Clergy on our Wedding Day.

To welcome in this new of 2019, I want to go back to 1999, 20 years ago, to give you the words of the great Polish Pope of the 20^th century, Pope St. John Paul II,

“A Happy New Year to all of you, men and women of every part of the world!

As we cross the threshold of the new year I would like to knock at the door of every home, to bring to each of you my cordial good wishes: a Happy New Year to everyone in the light which shines out from Bethlehem upon the whole universe!

I wish you a year filled with peace: the peace proclaimed by the angels on that holy night; the peace of Christ, who out of love became a brother to every human being!

I wish you a year filled with serenity and happiness: May you always be certain of God’s love for us. As he did 2,000 years ago, Christ comes today with his saving Gospel to guide the uncertain and faltering steps of peoples and nations, leading them towards a future of true hope.

I ask him to bless this moment of festivity and good wishes, that it may be the promising beginning of a new millennium filled with joy and peace. Let us enter the year 2000 with our eyes fixed on the mystery of the Incarnation.

Christ, yesterday, today and forever.

To him belong time and the ages.

To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen!”

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