
Father Dennis: This Sunday we return to the Liturgical season that the Church has called Ordinary Time. So all the major celebrations, Lent, Palm Sunday, Easter, Divine Mercy, and Pentecost are over and now we return to the ordinary things of our faith. And how appropriate it is, as we begin this journey into Ordinary Time, we have a lesson from Jesus' own lips about just what the ordinary Kingdom of God is like.
The usual questions inevitably arise. What is the Kingdom? Where is the Kingdom? The revelation from God is that the Kingdom is like a mustard seed. Now, you probably have never seen a mustard seed, but I have, somebody brought me a couple from Israel one time. And it's a tiny tiny little seed, it looks like a fleck of dust almost. Well this seed has been planted, and is flowering, flourishing all around us. The ability to recognize God's presence all around us is indeed a gift from our Heavenly Father. We are called to look to the ordinary things of life to find God's presence and to find God at work in the world.