3. Blue Monday

The third Monday of January has been dubbed 'Blue Monday' since it is taken to be the most depressing day of the year: it is Monday, it is winter, the Christmas fun is over and has left us in debt, our New Year's resolutions have failed and we have put on weight – but perhaps above all because now our life seems so prosaic. It is especially now that St Josemaria's invitation to 'turn the prose of ordinary life into heroic verse' becomes so relevant.  A meditation by Fr Gavan Jennings