How Ordinary is Today?

As of Monday, the Church began the season of Ordinary Time. We're back to those beautiful green vestments again! But in the new translation of the Roman Missal, we call these weeks "The Weeks through the Year." We hear again the invitation from the Church to keep walking with Jesus as a disciple.

But we just heard on Sunday about the Baptism of Jesus. We were reminded that the focus of our discipleship is drawing deeper through Him into the relationship of the Trinity ... coming closer to that eternal relationship of love that created us in the first place. We learned once again that each of us, through our baptism, is "my beloved son (or daughter, as the case may be), in whom I am well pleased."

So, the question is, halfway through this First Week of the Year, can we accept that invitation? Can we see the actions of our life -- ordinary actions on an ordinary day -- as steps which help us to walk with Jesus as His disciple? Can we live and act from this identity of a beloved child of God in small moments as well as big and important ones?

Sure we can ... because we're walking "through the year" with Jesus, toward the love of the Trinity.