Happy Pentecost! Today marks the end of the 50 days of Eastertide and we start going into what is normally called “Ordinary Time” – the time between the Monday after Pentecost and the day before Advent. The other period of Ordinary Time was after the cycle of the feast of Lord’s Birth through to Ash Wednesday . These are the “big ticket” events and we live through Christmas and Easter looking towards Christ with a sense of hope and joy and an expectation of what is to come. And then we hit Ordinary Time and everything gets a little flat. The fact that this Ordinary Time into which we are going falls at the start of the Summer Holidays makes it feel flatter still. We’re exhausted by all the celebrating, we want a break. Some take the time to stop coming to church, because really there’s nothing going on until Advent, right? Wrong! This is really a time of fertility and nurturing and harvesting. We ...
"Loosed" - v. past tense To be set free; released. Ex. "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”