Ordinary Time

… the days of our Ordinary, “Growing” Time return.

Growing Time parables inspire our attention. The smallest of seeds becomes the largest of trees. Yeast transforms flour into bread. On it’s own, the earth produces of itself and a stalk shoots up from the ground.

Theologian, Sofia Cavalletti, invites us to ponder these simple stories and everyday miracles of life. They reveal the secret of creation, a force that works within the universe, an energy that surpasses our human capacity. Less is more. Immeasurable littleness becomes the greatest of realities.

In us, too, lies a hidden mystery that is planted in the depths of our own creative beings. We tend to it by waiting with patient trust. We surrender to it’s power that breathes life into us. We grow.

What is stirring to life in the depths of you?

Through the Ordinary

It is through the ordinary,
through ordinary
eyes and hands,
through our flesh and blood
and the flesh and blood
of our children,
that a Great Power
comes into the world.

Through simple lives,
humble and forgotten,
the Spirit races
through the world
touching everyone,
touching everything
with a sovereign dignity,
with a forgetfulness of self,
surrounding all with
an incomprehensible silence
that, for those who hear,
becomes the sound
of spirits singing.

And it does not matter
whether we move forward
or backward in time,
flesh and blood are there,
and the Silence,
and this immense Song
which we, too, can sing
if only we allow it
to enter our ordinary bodies
and change us
into something entirely new.

Pat Twohy, SJ

Fr. Pat Twohy, SJ, with Christine, Dorrene and Vernelle Lane from the Lummi Tribe at St. James Cathedral, Seattle