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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEASON’S GREETINGS I
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By Chaplain (Colonel)
Constantine E. Zielinski
The advice given in this sermon
by Father "Zielinski, Catholic Chap
lain, L’.S. Air Force Academy,
Denver, Colorado, at the begin
ning of 1956, merits repetition and
ivider circulation now that we are
approaching another New Year.
Read and “soberly reflect on the
nature of time” before engaging
in the customary New? Year’s Eve
diversion of making resolutions.
fragile thing, for its thread may whooping it up about haying three
be snipped in an instant by the Cadillacs in the garage, a mansion
timeless God of our creation. full of priceless * paintings and
Nobody, celebrates “time” with furniture and a bank vault full of
more pagan exuberance than peo- money, when you really don’t
pie of our age! Nobody knows own a thing in the world,
less about what time is and to God, as an Eternal Being,
what degree they possess it, no- knows no time. Existence is His
body cares less about it than peo- Essence. He cannot not be. There,-
pie of our age!' It’s just like (Continued on Page 22)
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According to custom of long
standing. New Year’s Day in some
mysterious way is supposed to
knife through time like a sur
geon’s scalpel and split our lives
into two very well defined seg
ments of the old and new! It’s ail
a figment of the imagination since
the only real division of time
consists of the second that just
passed, the second that is right
now and the second that will fol
low, if God gives us to live it.
People on New Year’s Day are
wont to think of time in great
big chunks. Mid all the hilarity
and gay abandon of bidding fare
well to the Old Year and ex
tending a raucous welcome to the
New Year/they love to think that
they are losing automatically a
whole year and gaining automa
tically a full year.
A year consists of 31,538,000
seconds. You neither lose nor gain
that much time at the stroke of
midnight on New Year’s Eve. All
you get is an actual, present sec
ond of life. The second that pre
ceded it immediately tumbles into
the abyss of eternity—irrevocably.
The second that is to follo-w is
entirely dependent upon God as
far as our living through it is con
cerned. This is true not only at
the stroke of midnight on New
Year’s Eve. It is true of every
second through which we live ev
ery hour of every day of each
year.
People who think of time in
great big chunks are simply de
ceiving themselves. Time isn’t
meted out to us by God in that
manner. We are mortal beings!
The only bit of time which we
can actually claim as our own is
the present second through which
we actually live. The past doesn’t
belong to us anymore. Once it .has
been lived through, the only pos
session we retain from it is our
accountability before God for all
acts of commission of omission.
The future doesn’t belong to us
in any proper sense. We actually
possess the future only when God
permits us to live through a sec
ond of it.
TIME-POOR
This is all very sobering. Reflec
tion on the nature of time and our
possession of it reveals us to bo
time-poor—very, very poor in
deed. Our possession of time is a
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