Christmas is over….now let’s get into Ordinary Time!

I’ll admit it, Christmas isn’t Christmas for me until after Christmas! Well, after Christmas day anyway. Then I can enter into the season and the celebration that Christmas should be. This is because working in parish ministry means that you are doing just that – working – to help everyone else enter into the feast. Once that is all taken care of and all of the rehearsals and Masses are over I get my turn! I only wish the kids didn’t have to go back to school because for me that is the heart of Christmas. Christ comes into the world into a family. Family time over Christmas break is the best. Either way, on to Ordinary Time. My kids were just lamenting yesterday “how boring” Ordinary Time is. I had to remind them that Ordinary Time is because that’s when we hear all of the accounts of healing and miracles! I know that the Church uses the phrase “Ordinary Time” because in the Latin, ordinalis means “numbered.” As we know the weeks in Ordinary Time are numbered. But I also think it should be called Ordinary Time because as i said, here we have the awesome accounts and stories of healing and miracles. These are things that should be ordinary in the life of Christians. Jesus still wants to heal and perform miracles just as he did during His public ministry while on earth. I will be praying for whatever healing and miracles the Lord wants to give me and my family during this Ordinary Time!