Tedium or Te Deum? New Year’s for Catholics

Ring in the new year with a chant and an indulgence

The end of the calendar year is a time when a certain melancholy tends to grip people, since it puts before our faces the inevitable passage of time that brings death ever closer. This momentary awareness of the evanescence of all things at least partly explains why there is so much merrymaking that often ends in drunkenness and stupor. Nothing is easie…