We gather each Sunday to give praise and thanks to God, to greet the Lord in each other, to hear the Lord through God's word, and to receive the Lord in the Eucharist. We humbly ask God for forgiveness and for the grace to forgive our neighbor and ourselves for the wrongs we do to each other, trusting that the Lord looks with favor on the humble and merciful. Ordinary Time gives us the opportunity to focus on the ordinary aspects of our faith and realize their continuity through history. Take the value of humility. Centuries before Jesus, Zephaniah told people of Judah to seek humility. In the early years of Christianity, Paul explained that God chose the lowly to show that the arrogant are nothing before God. Finally, we hear Jesus teach his disciples that the meek and lowly will inherit the land. Now - two thousand years later - may God's word call us to humility as well.