This blog will feature reflections and meditations on everyday life.
I have worked on an off as a parish priest for over forty years. During this time, I have written many meditations on what it means to live the Christian life. Many of these were written in harmony with the seasons of the Church calendar, particularly, with the calendar of the Episcopal Church.
The seasons of the church year are dominated by the mystery of the Incarnation — Christmas — and that of the Resurrection, the Paschal mystery, otherwise known as Easter. Before each of these seasons are respective seasons of preparation, Advent and Lent. The other times of the year, flexible in duration, are Epiphany, stretching between Christmas and Lent, and the season of Pentecost, beginning with the Sunday fifty days after Easter and stretching to the beginning of Advent. In the Roman Catholic calendar, time in the Episcopal seasons of Epiphany and Pentecost is called “Ordinary Time.” The Roman Catholic Council of Bishops notes that, “Ordinary Time is a time for growth and maturation, a time in which the mystery of Christ is called to penetrate ever more deeply into history until all things are finally caught up in Christ.”
While ordinary time has a specific meaning in the church calendar, it is a wonderful term to refer to all of all of human life, in which we each are called to grow and mature in the mystery of Christ.
In the coming months, I will begin to share my reflections on living and flourishing in ordinary time.
In These Times 