The saga of salvation history (Pentecost Sunday)

“We tend to focus on extraordinary things, like the Apostles being able to speak in many languages and everybody’s surprise about this. But the Holy Ghost doesn’t come to give us extraordinary powers for the sake of giving us extraordinary powers.”

Making all things new again (Sunday X of Ordinary time)

We have slipped back into ‘ordinary’ time, after the great festivals of our holy religion. The word ‘ordinary’ used here is something of a misuse of the Latin in the books; a better word is ‘ordered,’ to more accurately describe the sequenced Sundays that begin at Sunday X today and end just before Advent withContinue reading “Making all things new again (Sunday X of Ordinary time)”