22 May 2018
In the old liturgical calendar there really wasn’t “Ordinary
Time.” The weeks were laid out as: “The
1st Sunday After Pentecost, the 10th Sunday After
Pentecost, the 18th Week After Pentecost,” and so on. The reference point was Pentecost, that
moment when the disciples’ lives took a definite turn. There was no “going back” after one had been
struck by the Holy Spirit.
And this is reflected, maybe, in the very first line of the
gospel today: “Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey….” Just two days ago we celebrated Pentecost;
the coming of the Holy Spirit into the life of the Church, into the hearts of
the faithful. The question is: Where are
we going from here? Are we going anywhere?
Is this the Tuesday after Pentecost, or do we go back to “Ordinary
Time,” as usual?
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