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Monday of the First Week of Ordinary Time - A Time to Repent and Believe

Monday of the First Week of Ordinary Time - A Time to Repent and Believe

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https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2025/01/12/a-time-to-repent-and-believe-2/ Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” Mark 1:14–15...

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Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of
God:

“This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” Mark 1:14–15

We have now completed our Advent and Christmas Seasons, and thus we
begin the liturgical season of “Ordinary Time.” Ordinary Time must
be lived in our lives in both an ordinary and
extraordinary way.

First of all, we begin this liturgical season with an extraordinary
calling from God. In the Gospel passage above, Jesus begins His
public ministry by proclaiming that “The Kingdom of God is at
hand.” But He then goes on to state that, as a result of the new
presence of the Kingdom of God, we must “repent” and
“believe.”

It’s important to understand that the Incarnation, which we
especially celebrated in Advent and Christmas, changed the world
forever. Now that God had united Himself with human nature in the
Person of Jesus Christ, God’s new Kingdom of grace and mercy was at
hand. Our world and our lives are changed because of what God did.
And as Jesus began His public ministry, He begins to inform us
through His preaching of this new reality.

The public ministry of Jesus, as it is transmitted to us through
the inspired Word of the Gospels, presents to us the very Person of
God and the foundation of His new Kingdom of grace and mercy. It
presents us with the extraordinary calling of holiness of life and
an unwavering and radical commitment to following Christ. Thus, as
we begin Ordinary Time, it’s good to be reminded of our duty to
immerse ourselves in the message of the Gospel and to respond to it
without reserve.

But this calling to an extraordinary way of life must ultimately
become ordinary. In other words, our radical calling to follow
Christ must become who we are. We must see the “extraordinary” as
our “ordinary” duty in life.

Reflect, today, upon the beginning of this new liturgical season.
Use it as an opportunity to remind yourself of the importance of
both daily studying and prayerfully pondering the public ministry
of Jesus and all He taught. Recommit yourself to a faithful reading
of the Gospel so that it becomes an ordinary part of your daily
life.

My precious Jesus, I thank You for all You have spoken and
revealed to us through Your public ministry. Strengthen me during
this new liturgical season of Ordinary Time to devote myself to the
reading of Your holy Word, so that all that You have taught us
becomes an ordinary part of my daily life. Jesus, I trust in
You.

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