ONWARD ORDINARY TIME..........

This week we have completed our two consecutive liturgical high seasons Lent and Easter, for a combined 95 days, and we as Catholics have returned to Ordinary Time, which is the longest Church Season of the Liturgical Year. Ordinary Time, named for the numbering of the Sundays and weekdays outside of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter, comprises thirty three and a half weeks of the year. But there is nothing strictly ordinary about Ordinary Time. During Ordinary Time we continue to celebrate the sacred mysteries of Word, Eucharist, prayer, worship, and ministry, that define our lives as Catholic-Christians. Living the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the values inherent in being People of God, is an everyday reality for Catholic-Christian Disciples truly committed to their Faith. We do not put on and then take off our baptismal garment of living faith at our convenience, but strive to do our utmost to lead lives of faith, fellowdhip, and fidelity. We bear witness to what we profess as believers in the Living and True God, by who we are, what we do, and we do it, within both the Church and the wider world of our homes, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and civic communities. As you begin this segment of Ordinary Time 2010, what part will your witness, ministry, and charity, play in your daily lives and the everyday opportunities presented to you, to do something pro-active as a Disciple of Jesus the Christ ? You possess the power of God's Spirit to make a difference here and now that can and will, serve the common good. And by serving the common good we achieve two significant goals of being Catholic-Christians : the building up of God's Kingdom by our constructive interaction with others and we affirm the greater glory of God our Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, without whom we are persons without the promise and hope of being anything more than finite humans and not the People of a loving, eternal, God..........Peace + Prayers, Fr. Troy