As we repent for the failures of the past year, reflect with gratitude on the great gifts it brought and resolve to "be better" and "do more" that is good in the coming year, we are always confronted with the reality of our human condition. We all know that many our resolutions to change often end in failure. That is, when fulfilling them relies on our own human efforts. We are prone; it seems, to making wrong choices in the stuff that is daily human life. We sin. There is a force at work in us that we simply cannot overcome on our own; an inclination. It is called sin. Only Jesus Christ can free us from that sin. That is why He alone can truly "make all things new!" - in our own lives and in the world and the universe.