The Weekly Perspective
by Joe Thacker, Pastor
As mentioned last week, the “Ordinary” of Ordinary
Time does not mean “mundane,” but is the term used
because such Sundays are designated according to
their ordinal numbers: First Sunday, Second Sunday,
etc. Yet, without any major events or festivals between
now and Reformation, there is a certain sense in
which we have entered an “ordinary routine” of the
liturgical year and cycle. This is not meant to imply
that the life lived in Christ by the Spirit is
commonplace. Far from it, and yet there is something
to be said for the rhythm of life that a regular routine
provides. Most of life is not marked by great feasts.
We do not live in a constant party, which would be
exhausting and diminish the times for celebration, but
in the usual day-to-day of rising from sleep, working,
eating, drinking, talking, playing, and lying down to
sleep. We go to sleep, we “die” each night, only for
the Lord to “resurrect” us each morning, to raise us
to the life to be lived in Him by faith. That is hardly
mundane, and yet it is our common experience, to
which we barely give any thought, as we readily and
rightly give ourselves to the daily duties the Lord sets
our hands to do. Ordinary Time is a significant
portion of our lives in which we live out the realities
of Christ’s incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection,
ascension, and the giving of the Spirit. It is ordinary,
gloriously ordinary.