In Nomine Iesu ven in sunny, southern California, there is a sense of the change of seasons. The liquid amber trees are turning that beautiful red. A few trees have lost their leaves for the winter. Warm days don't seem to pack their punch as they did a few months ago. Sweaters and sweat shirts come out from the backs of closets.
Rain becomes a real possibility again.
And the first of the holiday commercials has already hit the airwaves, prophesying the annual countdown to the jingle of Christmas cash registers. Today is the end of the church year, the last Sunday on the liturgical calendar. We call it the Sunday of the Fulfillment, the Sunday where everything wraps up. Then Easter - The Son dies and rises for the life of the world. And then we start all over again, until Jesus comes.