Getting Ready for Sunday
Fantasy Football and Intentionality
Fantasy football helps those who played football growing up to stay in the game. It also helps people like myself, who have never played real football, stay in the game and prepare for Sunday.
What helps to get ready for Sunday?
Fantasy football players check their teams as they prepare for Sunday. They log into the app. They check the waivers, glance over the injury news, and double-check the projections. Often, on Thursdays, a fantasy football player checks to ensure the Thursday night game is prepared. Then, leading into Sunday, a fantasy football player will look closely to ensure the lineup is set for the big game day. Then, the day after Sunday, they will check to ensure things are set for Monday Night Football.
What helps to get ready for Sunday?
We should admit this if we play fantasy football: we likely check the app repeatedly to see if the projections have changed in our favor, the same way we may open the fridge repeatedly, thinking there might be different food in there.
All this intentionality helps the fantasy football player stay in the game and prepare for Sunday.
What helps us get ready for Sunday?
It is about intentionality.
Think about checking in on the Sunday Mass readings earlier in the week the way a fantasy football player checks in on his players before Sunday comes. Consider reading commentary on the Gospel readings, as a fantasy football player will read commentary on his players’ likely performances.
Think about stopping into the church to check in, to be with Jesus during the week, the way a fantasy football player checks in to the fantasy football app mid-week.
The way the other days of the week for a fantasy football player are ordered toward Sunday, think about having the days of the week spiritually be ordered toward Sunday.
What helps to get ready for Sunday?
Be intentional about this. Fantasy football players are very intentional for 18 Sundays a year. Christians are to be intentional for 52 Sundays a year.
Every Sunday is spiritual game day. Stay in the game. Be intentional. Get ready for Sunday.
Fr. Luke Daghir
