With Memorial Day, we have entered summer. Vacations, picnics, those last hazy days. . .

With last weekend’s celebration of Pentecost, our liturgical calendar has entered into Ordinary Time. The name corresponds to the Latin term Tempus per annum (literally "time through the year"). The term Ordinary does not mean common or plain, but is derived from the term ordinal or "numbered."

The Sundays and weeks of ordinary time are numbered. There are fourteen weeks of summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Pentecost, Memorial Day, the first of June, the end of the school year. each can serve as a day of beginning, a opportunity for resolution, a moment of commencement for renewed and changed life.

Together, let us make the next weeks and month extraordinary.  Seek meaning in your relationships and work, seek the presence of God in your every situation, find family and community as a source of strength and support, and strive to encourage the dignity and worth of others.