The Roman Calendar for Ordinary TimeMary Pierre Ellenbracht, C.P.P.S., received a doctorate in Liturgical Latin from Nijmegen. She currently teaches liturgy at Cardinal Glennon College and works with the Liturgical Commission of the St. Louis Diocese.doi:10.1080/04580638009410094Ellenbracht...
Christians sometimes think of Ordinary Time as a kind of liturgical leftover. We celebrate the great cycle of the Passion, from Ash Wednesday through Lent and Easter and on to Pentecost. And we celebrate the great cycle of the Incarnation, from Advent through Christmas to Epiphany. Ordinary Tim...
The Advent season begins in less than two weeks. For most parents the coming of Advent signals a busy time, filled with many activities. There are Christmas pageants, concerts, parties and gatherings, baking, shopping and gift giving, card mailing, photos and so much more. ...
perhaps especially true, for the season we call Ordinary Time. Each year the church calendar sets aside more than thirty weeks for what it calls “Ordinary Time”, a season within which we are supposed to meet the angels of routine, regularity, domesticity, predictability, and ordinariness...
During my time in the religion department at Ouachita Baptist University, I had the privilege of taking a biblical interpretation course. Dr. Hays taught us to take a passage and see its layers. Simply by reading, reading again, and reading yet again, he showed us how new details could sta...