2025.01.26 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - The Sunday of The Word of God

Dear Parishioners,

Another Christmas season has just passed us by and we now find ourselves in Ordinary Time.  There is often excitement and interest linked with some feasts and seasons of the Church year: Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter. By comparison “Ordinary Time” sounds pretty dull, uninteresting and commonplace. But is it? Ordinary Time, meaning ordered or numbered time, is celebrated in two segments from Monday following the Baptism of our Lord (January 13) up to Ash Wednesday (March 5) and from Pentecost Monday (June 9) to the First Sunday of Advent (November 30). 

Ordinary Time can be called a season of Sundays, interspersed by a certain number of holy days and special feasts. Ordinary Time allows us to fully celebrate the special character of Sunday, the Lord’s Day, our original feast day. Sunday was the day early Christians held precious as the day when the Lord rose from the dead. It also came to be associated with the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. It is a fitting day, then, for Christians to come together as a community to celebrate the Eucharist. Ordinary Time is simply the way the Church organizes liturgical books, assigning Sunday a number, counting each week one after another.

Fr. Vijai, C.S.C. ~ Pastor