Why did we skip week 5 of ordinary time?

[danielsisk619]

Why did we skip week 5 of ordinary time? We went into lent during week 4 and we came back to OT in week 6. I see that some years we leave OT in week 8 and come back in week 9 so why isn’t it the same every year?

 

[frommi]

It all depends on how many Sundays are left until the feast of Christ the King…I think (correct me if I’m wrong) that ordinary time has 32 weeks…so you have to count backwards from 32 to get the right number of weeks in ordinary time to get to Christ the King.

This year we are skipping a lot of weeks of Ordinary Time…we’ll skip for the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul, Triumph of the Cross, All Souls, and St John Lateran…

Very weird year on the calendar.

 

[puzzleannie]

this happens in a year when we have a short period before Lent. there are also years when the Baptism of the Lord is the Monday, rather than the Sunday, after Epiphany. now that is weird.

 

[mozier]

It is just one of those “quirks” of the calendar. And the above is correct, too, we have to figure out the Ordinary Time weeks after the Easter Season as they add up between Pentecost and Advent.

 

[puzzleannie]

that is why you need a scorecard to know what week in OT and what week in the psalter we are in on the Monday after Pentecost (also called an ordo).

 

[danielsisk619]

Thankfully there is a scorecard in the LotH that says how many weeks of ordinary time there are before ash Wednesday and what week we start on after Pentecost.

Of course I didn’t realize that was what the second number was for until yesterday. I looked at that chart confused for a couple of years but now I know.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

While most years have 52 Sundays - from the first Sunday of Advent to the Christ the King [34th week of Ordinary Time], one in seven has 53 Sundays. There are weeks assigned to cover that later event. For years with only 52 Sundays it is necessary to omit one week. The smoothest way to do this is to remove one from Ordinary Time when three Sundays of Ordinary Time are already suppressed by Pentecost, Trinity and Corpus Christi.