I find it comforting to think of the rhythm of the liturgical year as a template for the cyclical nature of our lives.  Just like life, the church year holds times of great celebration, times of intense sorrow, and loads of ordinary time.  Our faith community has just ended weeks and weeks of celebratory time that began on Holy Thursday and ended with the feast day of Corpus Christi.  Now we enter ordinary time, the color of which is green.   We all need that kind of a breather, ordinary time, to lay back and take in the beauty of a tree awash in sunshine.  

As many of you know, my dear, ninety-five year old mom went to heaven in mid June and my soul mate Mike is making his way there as well.  As I think about this time in my life, it seems anything but ordinary and yet being born and dying, and having many or few years in between those two events, are two of the most ordinary, common things that we human beings experience.  Our lives take on the extraordinary as we let the light of Jesus shine through us, like sunlight through branches.  Our love and concern for others is what, in the end, defines each of us.  I thank you for the love and concern you have shown for our family as we walk these days of ordinary time. 

 

May you find in the love of others--family, small community, neighbors--the beauty of the ordinary permeated by the love of God.

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