In the liturgical calendar, yesterday (The Baptism of the Lord) was the last day of the Christmas season. Today we go back to the green vestments of "Ordinary
Time."
In today's reading from the Letter to the Hebrews it says
"In times past, God
spoke in partial and various waysto our
ancestors through the prophets;
in
these last days, he spoke to us through the Son ..."
Bishop Christopher Coyne says, "In
Church circles, we often talk about some things as being 'sacred' as
opposed to normal or ordinary or profane: sacred space vs. profane space;
sacred vs. ordinary books; sacred moments vs. ordinary moments.
"Yet, do
not all space and actions and things and time have the potential to be sacred,
to be of the Lord? After all, Christ's salvific death has ordered all of
creation to Himself and creation includes the dimension of time itself.
"So
while 'time' can be ordinary it has the greater potential to be 'sacred' by making whatever we do in that time of Christ by our
words, actions, and thoughts. After all, 'Hebrews' reminds us we are
in the 'last days,' days ordered towards God's plan.
"Hmm.
Maybe we should call today, 'The 1st Monday in God's Good Time.'"
In the liturgical calendar, yesterday (The Baptism of the Lord) was the last day of the Christmas season. Today we go back to the green vestments of "Ordinary
Time."
In today's reading from the Letter to the Hebrews it says
"In times past, God spoke in partial and various waysto our ancestors through the prophets;
in these last days, he spoke to us through the Son ..."
Bishop Christopher Coyne says, "In
Church circles, we often talk about some things as being 'sacred' as
opposed to normal or ordinary or profane: sacred space vs. profane space;
sacred vs. ordinary books; sacred moments vs. ordinary moments.
"Yet, do
not all space and actions and things and time have the potential to be sacred,
to be of the Lord? After all, Christ's salvific death has ordered all of
creation to Himself and creation includes the dimension of time itself.
"So
while 'time' can be ordinary it has the greater potential to be 'sacred' by making whatever we do in that time of Christ by our
words, actions, and thoughts. After all, 'Hebrews' reminds us we are
in the 'last days,' days ordered towards God's plan.
"Hmm.
Maybe we should call today, 'The 1st Monday in God's Good Time.'"
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