3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

What Part do we play? 1Cor. 12:12-30

Take a look around the church for a moment. 

Quite a mix of people!

And yet somehow we are all connected to each other. 

But How?

We are One Body;  One Spirit in Christ. 

Just as there are many parts in the body

So there are many parts in the Body of Christ!

And Each one of us has a part to play in this Church. 

But some may be saying I am not the Pastor. 

I am not rich, or strong, or have a lot of time to offer. 

“What can I do?”

Ask Aron Roger’s of the Green Bay Packers

Who fractured his little town

Ask him how important his little toe is!

No matter how big or small. 

Never underestimate the importance of what you do. 

When St. Therese of the LIttle Flower was hidden away in her convent,

She worried and wondered what part she was to play 

in the Body of Christ;  In her Convent?

She was not a scholar or a theologian. 

She was not a priest or bishop. 

She was not a teacher or missionary. 

So what was she?

What part did she have to play?

She came to realize that her role was to Love. 

She realized that Love was the Greatest Gift she could share. 

Each one of us is capable of loving. 

Love is patient and kind; 

love is not jealous or boastful;

 it is not arrogant or rude. 

Love does not insist on its own way; 

it is not irritable or resentful; 

It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 

In  a world divided by politics, race, culture and economics. 

The world doesn’t need another project or philosophy or program. 

What this parish and the world needs now is Love. 

And everyone has a part to play in that!