Ordinary Time

My dear Friends
After all the drama of the liturgical year, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost, the Church has moved into what is known as Ordinary Time. And yet it is still pierced with Feasts-this Sunday is Trinity Sunday, one of my favourites, then Corpus Christi and so on.
I have been leading such an exciting life that it is quite a relief to calm down for a while. In the corner of my room I have created a little 'nest' of shelves with my Hebrew books, and have placed my big red chair facing them and away from the window, which at other times I enjoy looking out of.
I was sitting having breakfast yesterday and looking out of the window when I saw,right in the middle of the silver birch tree, a bird. He moved around and was making the tree and several of its branches his own. It is the first time I have ever seen a bird in the tree and it seemed a sign for the future that, before too long, The Little Sisters of Joy would be at home in Toronto. And there are plenty of beautiful trees near the 'Motherhouse' over there.

God still speaks, even in Ordinary Time, perhaps even more so when there is less noise. After all, Elijah was told quite firmly (! Kings, 19) that God was not in the fire, nor in the earthquake, nor in the thunder, but in the still small voice. This phrase in the original Hebrew is actually untranslatable, nearest is a thin voice of silence.

I invite you in Ordinary time to listen in the stillness with me, that you may be touched by His Peace.

Shabbat Shalom
Sister Gila