"ordinary time"

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All my life I have heard the term “ordinary time” at mass. I never heard it explained. I find nothing in it in a search in many books, encyclopedias, etc. What does it mean? Thanks.
 
“Ordinary time” is the term referring to those times of the Church year outside of Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter.

Pretty simple, yes?
 
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all the time.
 
Ordinary comes from the word ordinal which means counted (i.e. First Week of Ordinary time, second week of ordinary time, etc.). It’s not meant to imply that the period is ordinary as in boring, just that it’s the counted period(s) that doesn’t fall in Lent,Easter, Advent, etc.
 
Before the revision of the missal, in the tridentine rite, all the Sundays after Pentecost were just numbered. (First Sunday after Pentecost, 24th Sunday after Pentecost, etc.) until we got back to the season of Advent to begin the church year again. With the revision of the missal, those were called “ordinary time.”

JimG
 
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Before the revision of the missal, in the tridentine rite, all the Sundays after Pentecost were just numbered. (First Sunday after Pentecost, 24th Sunday after Pentecost, etc.) until we got back to the season of Advent to begin the church year again. With the revision of the missal, those were called “ordinary time.”

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In the Byzantine Catholic Church we still refer to ‘ordinary Sundays’ as for example yesterday was the ‘The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost’
The title makes EVERY Sunday important, as it should be!

go with God!
Edwin
 
Ordinary is used a lot in the Church.

At Mass we have the ordinaries (those parts of the Mass that remain the same every Sunday - those that change are called the propers)

Ordinary time

We have ordinary ministers (preists, bishops, deacons rather than the extraordinary ministers (acolytes, lectors)

Some think Extraordinary Ministers refers to the circumstance when they are used be extraordinary (unusual) but this is not so

Extra - outside of Ordinary - other than the Ordinary Ministers is what it means.

The Bishop of the Diocese is sometimes called the Ordinary also

Ecclesiastical definitions are often quite different than Mr. Webster’s.
 
In the old calendar these were listed as Sundays after epiphany or Sundays after Pentecost. This implied connections to Epiphany and Pentecost which were not there.

Ordinary time is when we get away from the big Feasts and get some work done. 😉
 
This implied connections to Epiphany and Pentecost which were not there.
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I don’t see that. When I was a Lutheran we counted in the same way and the references to Epiphany and Pentecost were just that–mere reference points.
 
When I was a Lutheran we counted in the same way and the references to Epiphany and Pentecost were just that–mere reference points.

Perhaps that is the problem. We don’t want Epiphany and Pentecost to be mere reference points. They are important parts of the Christmas and Easter seasons, respectively.

It is unfortuante that the English language has come to use the word ‘ordinary’ to mean ‘common’ rather than the original meanings of ‘ordered’ and ‘counted’. Ordinary time is not ‘common’ and it is certainly not random. If anything, it is arranged in in a very deliberate order such that to understand the Gospel ‘theme’ of a particular Sunday, one must generally consider how the readings of the previous week were the foundation for the current week.
 
I didn’t say that Epiphany and Pentecost in themselves were mere reference points, only that their inclusion in the titles of some of the Sundays of the year was a reference point. We celebrated the days in themselves with considerable solemnity.
 
You haven’t found anything because the term was fabricated with the Novus Ordo, and it makes absolutely no sense… “ordinary time.” No… the Calendar of the Church is not “ordinary.” The actual name of this time is the time after Pentecost, just as you have time after Easter (Easter tide), etc.
 
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I guess you missed this post.
Ordinary time is not ‘common’ and it is certainly not random. If anything, it is arranged in in a very deliberate order such that to understand the Gospel ‘theme’ of a particular Sunday, one must generally consider how the readings of the previous week were the foundation for the current week.
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Rather than meaning “common” or “mundane,” this term comes from the word “ordinal,” which simply means counted time (First Sunday after Pentecost, etc.) Counted time after Pentecost always begins with Trinity Sunday (the first Sunday after Pentecost) and ends with Christ the King Sunday or the Reign of Christ the King (last Sunday before the beginning of Advent).

We say Easter, the Eastern Rites say Passion Sunday - two different words meaning the same thing - Christ has Died, and Christ is Risen for your sins and mine.
 
You haven’t found anything because the term was fabricated with the Novus Ordo, and it makes absolutely no sense…
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Never miss a chance to knock the NOM, do you?
 
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