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Ordinary Time.    Thank you God for Ordinary Time.  Advent and Christmas are over.  I don‘t know how many people this past week have expressed relief that the holidays are over and how much they are looking forward to getting back to their everyday routines.  I think that this is because it is in the ordinariness of everyday life that we truly live.  Vacations and holidays are usually welcome respites from the routines of everyday life.  As much as I enjoy these breaks I am almost always relieved when life once again resumes a normal routine.  Sickness, infirmity, family emergencies can also interrupt our routines in a not so positive way and I know that I thank God when I am able to return to everyday life. Ordinary daily life is so much more then “ordinary” or unimportant.   It is the very substance and foundation of our lives.

What is the importance of Ordinary Time during the liturgical year?   Ordinary Time is called ordinary simply because the weeks are numbered in a series or come in a specific sequence or order.  Ordinary Time is the ordered life of the Church.  It is the part of the year in which Jesus Christ walks with us and transforms our lives. It is the time when we are called to “Come and See.” The vestments worn by the priest in Ordinary Time are green – a sign of this life and growth in faith.

This Ordinary Time let us walk with Christ and accept his invitation to “Come and See.”

~Barbara Dury