7 Reasons Ordinary Time Isn't Just Ordinary

Among the reasons I have never understood Christmas and Easter Catholics, is that that they miss so much.  Do football fans leave after the opening kickoff, and return at the two minute warning of the fourth quarter?  Do you read a book's introduction and then skip to the final chapter?

In our universal Church green vestments are worn during Ordinary Time in Africa as well, one of the locations of CARITAS' Catholic child sponsorship programs.

Among the reasons I have never understood Christmas and Easter Catholics, is that that they miss so much. Do football fans leave after the opening kickoff, and return at the two minute warning of the fourth quarter? Do you read a book's introduction and then skip to the final chapter?

We have been in 'ordinary time' since the day after Pentecost, but it is anything but ordinary.

Prior to the new missal that followed Vatican II, these days were referred to as related to Sundays after Epiphany and Sundays after Pentecost. This time is called Tempus per annum, "time through the year." We change this in English to Ordinary Time. Not that it is considered mundane, it means ordered, as in Ordered Time. It is a counting of time for 33 or 34 weeks depending on the year.

Here are 7 reasons to celebrate Ordinary Time: