This time of year, we find ourselves in Ordinary Time — named not for being mundane, but for its ordered-ness. We count the weeks. We follow the numbers. But there’s a fitting metaphor in the name anyway.
What struck me over the past couple of months is how many parables and miracles we heard at Mass. And how familiar they’ve become. So familiar, in some ways, that they can start to feel — ordinary.
But look at how our Lord teaches. Look at what He uses. Farmers and seeds. Fishermen and nets. A woman searching her house for a lost coin. He performs miracles around food, around storms, around the weather. The stuff of everyday life.
It’s a reminder that our faith is not meant to be lived separately from our ordinary life — our work, our home, our families, our daily needs. The Lord belongs in all of it. He’s not just waiting for us in the extraordinary moments. He’s present in the ordinary ones.
Let us pray. Lord, help us to find You in the ordinary — the small moments of each day. Open our eyes to Your presence right where we are. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
