We asked, and you answered! Catholics from around the Archdiocese of Seattle share their New Year's faith resolutions.

In Catholic elementary school, I often heard a joke: “If you don’t know the answer on a test, just write ‘Jesus,’ because Jesus is always the answer.” At 22, that joke seems truer and truer. Jesus really is the answer to every question, but not quite in the way my classmates meant.

We asked, and you answered! Catholics from around the Archdiocese of Seattle share how another person has been Christ to them.

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When I was a high school freshman, most Saturday nights, you’d find me at some all-ages club or coffee house watching The Violet Burning. The goth band wore all black clothes and spiked their dyed hair into trapezoidal formations. My friends and I would barely dance, more like sway lethargically in the darkened venue, lit only with purple mood lighting.

We asked, and you answered! Catholics from around the Archdiocese of Seattle share the one thing they do every day to live their faith:

El filósofo Aristóteles argumentaba que la mejor amistad está basada en un amor por el bien. En su libro Los cuatro amores, C.S. Lewis se explaya más sobre esta idea utilizando la metáfora de que, en la verdadera amistad, no se mira uno frente a frente con su amigo, sino que está a su lado, los dos con la vista puesta en el bien.

Tenía casi 4 años cuando aprendí de memoria mi primer versículo de la Biblia: “Porque no es un espíritu de cobardía el que Dios nos otorgó, sino de fortaleza, amor y dominio de nosotros mismos”. (2 Timoteo 1, 7).