Wednesday in Ordinary Time

As you all know, I think Ordinary Time is a cop out by the Vat. II Fathers so they didn't have to figure out something else to call it. The fact that there are 34 endless Sunday's of Ordinary Time, I guess, is to go along with the Ordinary Time that life itself really is. If you think about it, most of our days are blah and ordinary. So why shouldn't the church year reflect the blah and ordinary time?

As I've talked about before, the lessons and gospels of Ordinary Time are anything but ordinary. After a while you get the feeling that the whole season should be called the Season of Miracles. Of course, the Church in Her {cough} wisdom, would call that Innovation. Heaven forbid we should allow a breath of air to flow through the two thousand year institution that seems to be holding on by its fingernails. And, yes, I'm still proud to be a Roman Catholic. I'm just not blind.

Turning the clock back like Mother Angelica wants to do isn't going to change anything either. If anything it will kill real catholicism in a straight jacket of left over, has been, rituals that no one remembers why they started doing them in the first place. We have to push forward continually, even in the Ordinary times to find the will of God wherever it is. I'm not talking about some airy fairy business of flitting here and there after each and every odd doctrine, I'm talking about keeping the faith and keeping the door open at the same time.

Is that so hard? People talk about the ancient church. We don't know squat about the ancient church. How can we? Most of them found themselves being eaten by lions, or killed by gladiators, or hung on crosses and set afire to light the Appian Way! The ancient church was the church of the Martyrs.

People think they know things only when what they find from some source that declares itself ancient, and then don't bother to wonder how that source got to us. No one really started writing this stuff down until after Constantine. And then things got crazy! So, let's just keep with the faith of Christ Jesus, and Him Crucified and Resurrected. The rest of it, take as it comes, let go as it moves on. We already possess all we need for salvation. Christ Himself.

If I don't get excommunicated, I'll be back soon with another post.