The End of Ordinary Time

In today’s Gospel, our Lord warned about “the anxieties of daily life” leading us to be unprepared to stand before him.

Daily life does indeed have its anxieties: it can also have its monotony.

It is truly Ordinary Time.

Some people say they wish that every day was Christmas.

However, Because of our earthly human psychology, if every day was Christmas, then Christmas would no longer be special: Christmas would be mundane and we would lose heart.

Ordinary Time is the basic fabric of our lives: it is the simple background against which our special celebrations and seasons of remembrance shine more brightly and resonate more deeply.

This afternoon, Ordinary Time ends.

This evening, something wonderful will begin.