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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Lectionary: 74

This coming week is National Marriage Week.

“Among the many blessings that God has showered upon us in Christ is the blessing of marriage, a gift bestowed by the Creator from the creation of the human race…It is a source of blessing to the couple, to their families, and to society and includes the wondrous gift of co-creating human life.”

Pope Saint John Paul II tells us that “The family, which is founded and given life by love, is a community of persons: of husband and wife, of parents and children, of relatives. Its first task is to live with fidelity the reality of communion in a constant effort to develop an authentic community of persons.”

Today, we see a bit of Saint Peter’s family life.

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Lectionary 71

Jesus is priest, prophet, and king. At our baptism, we are anointed and called to fulfill the offices of priest, prophet, and king in our own way. 

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Lectionary: 65

Today’s Gospel selection is a bit unfortunately chosen. The beginning of the thirty fifth verse of the first chapter of John does not begin as I read it today as “John was standing with two of his disciples…” Rather, it begins: “The next day John was there again with two of his disciples…”

Lectionary: 21

Is Christmas over? Well, that depends upon whom you ask. The US Bishops say yes. Today’s Feast of the Baptism of the Lord marks the last feast of Christmas time, and is simultaneously the first Sunday of Ordinary time. Prior to 1969, the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord or the Purification of our Lady closed the 40 day Christmas season. In much of the world, Christmas trees and such are brought down even before the Feast of the Epiphany. In other parts of the world, the manger scene stays up until the Feast of the Presentation. And that’s just in the Latin Rite churches.

People really get into arguing about the church seasons, cycles, and times. Well, people who like to argue like to argue about it, anyway.

I think it might be a bit of a blessing in disguise.