In Ordinary Time

 
If I wanted to sit at your feet,
your Presence was here.
If I wanted to hear you speak,
your Word is read.
If I wanted to see you,
your Body is held high.
To touch your garment,
I can embrace Communion.
 
If I wanted new beginning,
my journey starts with you, O Alpha!
Or to end my sorrows and slavery,
here, my Omega.
If I wanted the center of the universe
there was this liturgical moment
when East and West heaven and earth
meet in divine oblation.
 
And if I could not be here,
I could reach this all in prayer.
No need for pilgrim wandering
To find a teacher or an answer
Or rational explanation set beside your Mystery.

No, rather, we celebrate your Revelation.
Our belief is simple:
God came revealed, incarnate,
died, ascended
He left us, living after,
with his Spirit.
 
We Christians see the comings and the goings
of this world and now believe
we are His Body,
our actions in and for him.
We believe we are the Church,
living through the Spirit,
the aftermath of the Ascension.
Surrounded by miracles, we await God’s day
quietly, in Ordinary Time.  [i]  
 
                                                                        (1990s)


[i]   “Ordinary Time”.  Wikipedia.org. {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_Time } (accessed January 19, 2022).
“Ordinary Time … is the part of the liturgical year in the liturgy of the Roman Rite … which falls outside the two great seasons of Christmas-tide and Eastertide, or their respective preparatory seasons of Advent and Lent.”