The birth of Jesus and becoming God as told in the Christmas story enables us to enter the New Year with confidence and trust, said Archbishop Daniel Bohan in his New Year’s Homily. Holy Rosary Cathedral was almost at capacity for the January 1, 11:00 a.m. mass celebrated by the Archbishop with Monsignor Ken Miller, Cathedral Rector Reverend Lorne Crozon and Reverend Deacon Barry Wood.

In his Homily the Archbishop spoke of the poor shepherds to whom the angels appeared, men who had little public respect because of their occupation, were chosen by God to be the first to hear the good news of Christ’s birth and the first to proclaim the good news. “One does not need to be great to be favoured by God. When our world, or the events in our own lives, makes us feel we are at the bottom of the heap, we can turn and look at the Shepherds of Bethlehem. ”

The mass was followed by the Archbishop’s annual levy held in the Cathedral auditorium. Hundreds greeted the Archbishop, Monsignor Miller, Reverend Crozon, Deacon Barry Wood and his wife Sheila. The levy, for the first time, was sponsored by the Regina chapters of the Knights of Columbus. In past years it was left to the Cathedral Council and the Cathedral to pay the levy’s costs.