We call this period of the liturgical year "Ordinary Time," but this time after Christmas is not ordinary at all, for it is now that we learn about the first days of Jesus' public life. In today's Gospel, John testifies that the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus when John baptized him, meaning that the Holy Spirit joined in Christ's entire mission. The Holy Spirit descended upon us in our own baptism as well. May we be conscious of that divine presence as we join in Christ's mission during our own ordinary time. Both Isaiah of the first reading and John the Baptist in the Gospel were blessed with the eyes of faith, the wisdom to understand what they were seeing, and the will to proclaim it. Despite years in exile in Babylon, Isaiah saw the day when God's salvation would come to the whole world. John saw something like a dove descends upon Jesus and realized that this was the Holy Spirit. Baptized with same Holy Spirit, we too are able to see with the eyes of faith: to recognize the Lord in the word of God just proclaimed, in the Eucharist we are about to share, and in each other and in our world. Do we recognize the Lord as Isaiah and John did?