Ordinary Weeks News Today

May 19, 2021 | liturgy | The principle of the Revised Common Lectionary/Three Year Series provides for a possible 53 Sundays/weeks in a liturgical year. As well as the Seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter, there are 34 weeks that are “counting” weeks, called “Ordinary”, not in the sense of “not-special”, but from the Latin ordo, meaning, “marking the place or position of an object in an order (another English word also derived from ordo) or series”. These Ordinary W...