Those questions are an excellent way to for us to ponder this “Ordinary” Season [liturgically in the Church], which is anything like ordinary in the way we commonly think about ordinary.
“Why are we here?”
“For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” [Ephesians 2: 10]
St. Francis de Sales offers us this insight, “Be who you are and be that well to give honor to the master craftsman’s whose handiwork you are.” He also, helps us with these insights, “Holiness is a divine-human adventure: it was God who entered human history and it is He who leads people into His own proper into His own proper life.”
“… holiness is neither the simple result of human effort nor is it the automatic result of a ‘grace’ from out of the blue. A combination of both is needed: God’s gratuitous gift and free human cooperation with that gift.” [The Spirituality of Francis de Sales, A Way of Life, p.10 & p.12]
You and I are called to be Saints - - that is the goal of Christian life. de Sales said, “Saints are people who do ordinary, extraordinarily well.” “There’s more to get thrilled about in the ordinary than the extraordinary.” [Colors, “Time Well Spent”]
What does it mean to be a Catholic?
“To be Catholic is to see the world as a place of meaning & of hope; a place created by God,
it is to know that each individual is called to flourish in that world & to make a positive contribution to the common good, it is to be content in the knowledge that we have the real possibility of divine destiny.
To be Catholic is to be a person of hope & of vision, a person who sees meaning in life in this world & promise beyond.” [Fr. Michael Hayes]
So, we are here to honor God as a person of vision & hope, knowing that God has made us & calls us to be with Him; Ordinary stuff of each day we are here.
May God Be Praised.
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