The return of the Green for Sunday Mass

>>>>For the millions of Catholics who attend Mass this Sunday they will see the green vestments for the first time since before Lent begin on Ash Wednesday.  We have been back in ordinary time for a couple of weeks but we had special liturgies for Trinity Sunday and Corpus Christi Sunday.  Ordinary time is the longest season of the Church calendar, running from once the Christmas season ends until Lent then again after Pentecost until advent begins.  Consider this, being early June, we will be in Ordinary Time, hence the green, until late November.

Check out the links below for some great information about Ordinary Time, it really isn't so ordinary!


Ordinary Time - Definition of Ordinary Time
    

By Scott P. Richert, About.com Guide

 

Definition: Ordinary Time refers to all of those parts of the Catholic Church's liturgical year that aren't included in the major seasons (Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter). Ordinary Time is a feature of the current (post-Vatican II) liturgical calendar. In the traditional Catholic calendar (before 1970), the Sundays of Ordinary Time were referred to as the Sundays After Epiphany and the Sundays After Pentecost.

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