Easter has poured itself out, and now we members of the church are stumbling through what the church calendar calls “Ordinary Time,” the second installment of the phase traditionally beginning with Epiphany in early January and ending with Ash Wednesday. Ordinary Time picks up again after the mysteries of Easter and Jesus’ ascension into heaven have passed, and stretches out to swallow the rest of the year. It is the space between. It is a time for baptisms and weddings, teaching and preaching without the highs and lows of Jesus’ cosmic interventions. Church attendance flags. There is no birth
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