s we face a new year with unknown challenges but also unknown opportunities, I encourage you to remember Mary and her simple but important faithfulness to the purposes of God. By some she is venerated, held in very high esteem. By others she is simply thought about once a year and then forgotten. But her story, her actions, her life, serves us as a reminder that faithfulness to the simple and important roles in life, when done in service to God and for others in His name, matter. Jim Kane