It is, what we call, "ordinary time" now and we see in today's Gospel, an ordinary time for Jesus. He is doing His thing, "it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest, holy, innocent, undefiled." This High Priest, is not distant from the needs of others. We see Jesus withdraw to a lake, but a great crowd follows Him. He gets a fishing boat ready so as to avoid the press of the crowds, but He is not beyond their needs for healing.
Jesus' ordinary day is full of being available for being Himself, that is the High Priest who is not so high and too beyond. In the scene we see today even the unclean spirits proclaimed, "You are the Son of God." They know the secret too and He orders them not to make Him public. Jesus, by His ordinary daily actions of healing and teaching will make Himself known.
We have ordinary days and ordinary ways of needing a savior, a comforter and guide. Our faith in Him can make every day extraordinary. For those who were healed, or fed, or released from various confinements, those days were beyond the ordinary. For us, by our actions of teaching, comforting and guiding others, our days are more than regular or ho-hum. We are invited to let Jesus make each day a blessing time. We are healed so as to give grace a space and a face in the ordinary times of the lives around us, and this is how we make the secret known.
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