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Ordinary Time
"Ordinary
Time" has nothing to do with what we ordinarily
call ... well ... "ordinary."
It pertains to time "ordered" to an end --- and
at this point in our life in Christ , it is
"ordered" toward preparation for Lent.
In a sense, it is the time to gather into
sheaves the nettles and thorns of our sins and
waywardness --- to bind them, through bonds of
love and filial obedience, into the hands of God
--- and to immolate them, together with
ourselves, unto ashes until all the dross of
selfishness and sin is burned away, and we lay
naked in our need before God on Ash Wednesday.
It is a time for humility, for the realization
that for all our puissance and pride, our hubris
and pretension ...we are not God --- and
therefore not our own ends.
Now is the time to take account of what we will
burn to ashes ...
Let us make a conflagration of sin ... and
sprinkle our heads with the dead embers of
desires that would carry us to death ... on a
plume of smoke gone with the first wind.
For extraordinary souls, it is extraordinary
time.
February
2006
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Ty
Mam Duw
Poor Clare Colettine Nuns |
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