Ordinary day and now ordinary people

1 Corinthians 1:26-31

           You know how it is, you hear something a hundred times and then, on that 101st, the statement clicks. You get it. It takes on a whole new meaning. Such is the case with the phrase "I anoint you priest, prophet and king", said at all christian baptisms. I give credit to the old Deacon that said it in such a way that I finally got it. We are all priests, we are all prophets and we are all kings.

           In several of my casual reads lately, the authors made the point that Priests (especially in the Roman Catholic tradition) are held in very high esteem. And such is part of the basis for many of the churches problems from celibacy, child abuse and to my point here, the stagnancy of the laity. The ordinary, the person in the pew feels unworthy if not totally unwilling to step up to the plate. They do not feel they can take control of and contribute to their own church. This is not something that belongs only to the Roman Catholic Church. 

            When we are Baptized as priest prophet and king, it grants us graces and makes us a vital part of the body of Christ. It is responsibility to step up to the plate. We know to help our brothers and sisters. We most often associate that with service and help outside of church. Do we realize we need to help with the gifts we are gifted with to help the actual church? Service is something we are called to at Baptism. And the point I wish to make is that it is not just the ordained, it is all of us, the high and the low, whatever we may appear to be. We are equally loved in the eyes and heart of God. We ae called to serve.

           Do not think you are not worthy to serve. God chooses us all. accept the challenge and responsibility.

Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, in order that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’