Ordinary time

Lord, ordinary is where You most often choose to dwell. Most of salvation history unfolds without spectacle. You lived thirty years in Nazareth – working, eating, resting, praying – before three public years that changed the world. No miracles recorded, yet the Church calls those hidden years holy. The Church reminds me that ordinary comes… Read more

What is ordinary? What feels ordinary to one personmay feel impossible,even extraordinary,to another. Ordinary?Nothing special?nothing distinctive?nothing worth noticing? But is that really true? Swimming is ordinary for me.Pull, breathe, kick.The body knows what to do.Years of repetition have made it instinctive.There is no need to think.Stroke after stroke,lap after lap,the mind settles. In the water,there… Read more