As we enter the first week of Ordinary Time, it is easy to feel that we are living through a period of endings, but in the life of the Church, every ending is a new beginning. We are moving out of a thousand-year era of "Christendom" where the faith was mainstream and into a new age where being a Christian is no longer socially "cool" or culturally expected. This shift is an opportunity to reclaim the radical spirit of the early Church, treating our baptism not as a passive identity but as a wholehearted commitment to discipleship that offers the world the light it desperately needs.

Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 | Corinthians 1:1-3 | John 1:29-34

Originally preached on the 15th of January, 2023, at St Ann Catholic Church in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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