This is the first time you have seen
green as our liturgical color in one of our Sunday mass celebrations in quite a
long time. We have journeyed through the
liturgical seasons of Lent and Easter, and after the end of Easter season with
the celebration of Pentecost, we celebrated two different solemnities these
past two Sundays – the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity and the Solemnity of
the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.
Today, however, we are back in ordinary time. By ordinary, we don’t mean it is commonplace
or without meaning. Ordinary time falls
outside the major liturgical seasons of Lent, Easter, Advent, and
Christmas. The word “ordinary” comes
from the Latin word “ordinalis”, which refers to numbers in a series. During ordinary time, we number the weeks as
we journey with the Lord during our liturgical year. Our time here on earth and our time in the
liturgical seasons are posited between two events – between the first coming of
Jesus in Ancient Israel in humility and obscurity and his second coming in
majesty and glory.
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