06/09/2026
During our "Moment with the Youth", Rev. Johnson called on us to look around for differences within our sanctuary. The youth were quick to point out the appearance of the color green in our "decorations" (vestments and banners). After busy liturgical seasons of Advent & Christmas (purple & white), Lent (purple), Holy Week, Easter (white) and Pentecost (red), we have packed up the holiday adornments and return to “Ordinary Time,” as marked by the color green.
Ordinary Time comprises all the days not marked by a specific season. It stretches on for 27 to 29 Sundays (not counting the Sundays of the Transfiguration, All Saints and the Trinity)
The name “Ordinary Time” does not mean ordinary as we use the word. It comes from the word ordinal, an adjective denoting a numerical position of an object. It’s “first, second, third,” instead of “one, two, three.” Originally, all the Sundays that weren’t contained in the Advent/Christmas or Lent/Easter seasons were indicated by ordinal numbers, hence the designation. Ordinary Time is basically “counted time.”
Rev. Johnson also pointed out that it is a time to "breathe deeply", after the culmination of celebratory days. During this time, what if we take the time to celebrate the extraordinary of ordinary...birds singing in the morning, a plunge into a cool pool on a hot day. All those moments where God shows up in the extra-ordinary spaces of our lives.
May it be so!
