New Year - Ordinary Time

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As we begin our new year of 2012 and enter into Ordinary Time  in our Liturgical calendar, we should ponder on how ordinary things have become. We will be reading and listening to stories of Jesus in the beginning of His ministry and contemplating on what that means for us in our lives.


One thing to realize is that the Ordinary Time label is a little misleading. When Jesus was born on that Christmas Day and began to cry as a baby is want to cry, that voice resounded through the ages and turned the ordinary into the Extra-Ordinary! Every moment from that day on was graced by the presence of God in our midst.


We as humans tend to forget as time passes. And so it is with our relationship with Christ. Sometimes our masses go on as if by mechanics. Yup, just an ordinary mass on an ordinary Sunday with ordinary music sung by ordinary people living in an ordinary fashion among ordinary circumstances. It makes life so.............. ordinary.


But to shake things up, mass isn't so ordinary anymore. What? Well, we now have to read our responses because some of the words have changed. The priests and deacons have to pay particular attention to the words they read and proclaim. The prayers are starting to take on a new life in that we have to really think about what we are doing at mass. So the ordinary is becoming something else. So if we transform the ordinary it becomes EXTRAordinary right?


That's what Jesus came to do - make us really think about our ordinary lives and transform them, elevate them, cleanse them and sanctify them! He came and gave all that He had so that we can become all that we were meant to be by God the Almighty Father! We are destined for eternal life and from this realization we should understand that nothing is ordinary anymore. Even though this world looks ordinary and tries to drag us down to mediocrity and despair, we have the ultimate hope in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour!


So let's live as we should! Live extraordinary lives in and extraordinary manner!


God bless,
Deacon Jimmy