Resolution for 2015

Try to do my best what Pope Francis suggested to Vatican employees on December 22, 2014.

Below is the English translation by ZENIT:

It was pride that transformed angels into devils; it is humility that renders men like the angles (Saint Augustine).
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Therefore I exhort you:

1. To take care of your spiritual life, your relation with God, because this is the vertebral column of all that we do and of all that we are. A Christian who does not nourish himself with prayer, the Sacraments and the Word of God, inevitably withers and dries up. Take care of the spiritual life;
2. To take care of your family life, giving your children and your dear ones not only money but, above all, time, attention and love;
3. To take care of your relations with others, transforming the faith into life and words into good works, especially towards the neediest;
4. To take care of your speech, purifying your tongue from offensive words, from vulgarities and from worldly decadent language;
5. To take care of wounds of the heart with the oil of forgiveness, forging persons who have wounded us and medicating the wounds we have caused others;
6. To take care of your work, completing it with enthusiasm, humility, competence, passion, with a spirit that is able to thank the Lord;
7. To rid yourselves of envy, concupiscence, hatred and negative sentiments that devour our interior peace and transform us into destroyed and destructive persons;
8. To rid ourselves of rancor that leads us to revenge, and of sloth that leads us to existential euthanasia, of pointing the finger that leads us to pride, of constant complaining that leads us to despair. I know that sometimes, to keep one’s job, there is talk of someone, to defend oneself. I understand these situations, but that way does not end well. In the end we will all be destroyed among ourselves, and this we must not do, it is of no use. Rather, we should ask the Lord for the wisdom to be able to bite our tongue in time, not to say insulting words, which then leave your mouth bitter;
9. To take care of weak brothers: I have seen many beautiful examples among you in this, and I thank you, congratulations! Namely, take care of the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers because we shall be judged on this;
10. To take care that Holy Christmas is never a feast of commercial consumerism, of appearance and of useless gifts, or of superfluous waste, but that it is the feast of joy of receiving the Lord in the Crib and in the heart,

To take care -- to take care of so many things, each one of us can think: “What is the thing I must take care of most?” To think this: “Today, I will take care of this.” However, above all take care of the family! The family is a treasure; children are a treasure. A question that young parents can ask themselves: “Do I have time to play with my children, or am I always busy, busy, and have no time for the children?” I leave you with that question. To play with the children: it is so lovely. And this is to sow the future.
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Read full Pope Francis address at http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-francis-address-to-vatican-employees