St. Mary Catholic Church1625 Adams StAshland NE 68003 stmaryashland@windstream.net Map |
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St. Joseph Catholic ChurchOak & North StreetsGreenwood NE stjosephgreenwood@windstream.net Map |
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Ordinary Time Each year, the Church's liturgical calendar begins with Advent and Christmas, a brief ordinary time, and then the great seasons of Lent and Easter. These are followed by the feasts of the Most Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi, the celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ. After all of this it can seem kind of let down to have a long season of ordinary time, almost half the year! That feeling is partly because we associate the word ordinary to mean boring, common or nondescript. But we must not forget that God calls us to sanctify the ordinary, to find holiness and live our faith in our ordinary lives. One becomes a saint not because of doing extraordinary miracles, but by faithfully fulfilling out the duties of daily work and family life. The Second Vatican Council reaffirmed that ordinary and holiness are not opposites. Indeed it said everyone, including ordinary lay men and women are called to holiness; thus professional work can be a means to holiness and marriage is a way to become a saint. We need to seek personal sanctity in the midst of the world. Sanctity should be normal and ordinary, because we all had a duty to become saints. Bookmark this Website at home.windstream.net/stmaryashland |
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