The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – January 25, 2026
The saying about liturgists is often true: we are glorified furniture movers. But I wouldn’t trade this job for anything more conventional. Where else can you shape how people encounter the Divine every week or accompany them in prayer at their most vulnerable? Where is one expected to be a historian, poet, artist, and graphic designer; audio-visual engineer and florist; teacher, writer, and proofreader; skilled in conflict management and the art of removing wine stains and candle wax? When tragedy strikes, we are first responders. When words escape us, we are ready with a prayer, a song, and a ritual revealing the mystery of God we know is there.
Through ritual, word, and action, these new catechumens who seek the Lord with us will be nourished by the living Word of God for the next full liturgical year as they taste and see the goodness of the Lord.
Ours is the ministry of minutiae in service to the great cosmic narrative: that the infinite, unseen God would desire to be at the mercy of the human body for love of us. Perhaps that is why liturgists are deeply invested in the details and things of liturgy: because they concern our very bodies. Palms and ashes, vestments and candles, oil and fire, bread and wine, names inscribed and godparents chosen, fonts overflowing with water, and flowers that give their life for our joy.
As you prepare all these for the coming weeks, know that yours is a holy work, co-laboring with the Spirit, to help all creation do the sacred work of praise to the Father in Jesus.
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