Radical Incarnation: Go Tell the World

Every Sunday is a celebration of the Lord's resurrection. So "Ordinary Time" so not really ordinary. The "ordinary" in the name given to the season of green vestments and no Advent-Christmas or Lent-Easter festivities refers to the "ordinal" or "counted" Sundays. Every Sunday is resurrection day.
  
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"All who remain in me and I in them will bear much fruit."
The idea of perseverance occurs often in the scriptures and is expressed in various ways. For example: “to keep the word” implies lasting and stubborn patience: “But as for that [seed] in the good soil, these are the ones who, when they hear the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance” (Lk 8:15).When situations test us we face up to them by perseverance and persistence, by endurance, by keeping the word. Trials tend to make us turn back; they persuade us to lose heart. The direct opposite is not necessarily immediate victory; rather it is the endurance that enables us to stand firm and strong. John the evangelist uses a very simple verb: menein (“remain” or “abide”), which in context carries the same overtones. “If you abide in me,” Jesus says, “and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you” (John 15:7). “Abiding in Jesus” is the way to meet trials and tests.

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Perseverance in Trials

  Carlo Maria Martini (1927–2012) was an Italian Jesuit and biblical scholar who served as archbishop of Milan from 1979
until his retirement in 2002. He was named a cardinal in 1983. Pope Francis has called Martini “a father for the whole Church.”