Thursday, February 21, 2019

Rare Readings


This coming Sunday is the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.  It is rare for us to have a Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, let alone a Sixth, and we hardly ever have an Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time.  Why is this?

Blame it on the moon.

I’m serious.  The date of Easter is determined based on when the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox is.  That’s a lot of firsts!

Since we usually don’t get this far before Lent starts, the readings for the past Sunday and the next two Sundays aren’t as familiar to us.  Pay close attention to these next few weeks.  Try to discern what God is trying to communicate to you through these rare readings.

No comments:

Post a Comment