Ordinary Time

So we had some snow this weekend.  It was a light snow with no wind, and God painted some wonderful scenes.  We had a good 10-12" here, and I took this photo of snow piled on an ornament atop my Christmas tree in the rectory courtyard.
 
We celebrated the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus, and so it is with some sadness that the Christmas season is over and we enter into Ordinary Time.  And yet, as the Ordo suggests, Ordinary Time is anything but ordinary.  It is what identifies the Chrsitian community - how we live out our faith in the everyday, mundane tasks that fill our days and weeks.

And so, as I put away my Christmas decorations this week, I remind myself that Jesus needs me to be faithful to the same mission he undertook - building the Fahter's Kingdom of true and lasting peace.