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Musing of a Modern Day Contemplative Mystic
The Season After Pentecost is called, also, Ordinary Time. This season begins the day after Pentecost and ends the day prior to the First Sunday of Advent. The First Sunday is always Trinity Sunday. The Last Sunday is always the Sunday of the Reign of Christ or Christ the King. Some churches, but only among the United Methodists, call this season Kingdomtide.
I prefer to speak of the season as Ordinary Time. Why? Most of our lives are lived in the ordinary. Ordinary is from the Latin ordinaries, and this bears the meaning regular.
Sure, I enjoy special days, especially special holy days, in our world, national, and church calendar. But these days are treated as special because they are not the usual space in which we live our lives. My life, indeed, if special is only special due to the presence of the Wonderful Presence in all the other nonspecial days I live into and through.
Christ, most of my life is lived in the regularity of daily routine. If I am to experience You intimately, it must be usually within the ordinariness of my daily, very ordinary living. Indeed, I cannot experience You intimately on special days if I do not in the ordinary. Intrude into the ordinariness of my life and teach me and love me there. Thank You for making special my ordinary self and everyday life. I love it! Celebrate it! And find You in it, thankfully. In Love With You, Amen.
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