Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)
June 14, 2015 11:00 am · Deacon Bob Carey
Today after many weeks we return to Ordinary Time, or we call ordered time maybe. Ordinary Time is the greatest length of time in our life. Most of what we do in life is just kind of a lot of routine or repetitive things. We've been through the Lenten season, the Easter season, we've had the special feast days of Pentecost, celebrated the Blessed Trinity, and last week it was the Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Cristi.
This Gospel we hear today, was about the small becoming large and the time in between become large from small. The mustard seed which Jesus talks about is really likened to the Church itself. The Church that Jesus left, there wasn't much of a Church that was apparent when he left this Earth. He took his twelve apostles and put them in charge. But we would probably not consider them to be good leaders. Peter, the head of the twelve, who was he? The one that denied Christ three times. All of them left Jesus during his passion and Crucifixion, except for the apostle John. Thomas wouldn't even accept the testimony of the others, when they all told him that Jesus had risen from the dead.
