What is Ordinary Time in the liturgical year?

Answer 1

Ordinary time is the time on the church (liturgical) calendar that does not encompass the other seasons of the church year such as Advent and Lent. It is a time to focus on God's movement and rythmns in the ordinary seasons of our life.

The Catholic liturgical year runs concurrently with the civil year. ("Liturgical year" means the annual cycles of feast and observances.) Actually, there are three cycles in the Catholic church. There is the three year cycle for Sunday Mass readings, the two year cycle for the weekday Mass readings, and the annual cycle of liturgical seasons and feast days.

The liturgical seasons are Advent (the weeks leading up to Christmas), Christmastide (which continues through Epiphany), Lent (the weeks of preparation for Easter), the Easter season or Paschaltide (the weeks from Easter to Pentecost). These times are marked by special prayers and observances.

The rest of the year is called Ordinary Time.These are the weeks from after Epiphany until Ash Wednesday (which begins Lent) and from after Pentecost until Advent. There are still feastdays and holidays during this time, but it is not considered a particular liturgical season.

Ordinary Time refers to the time in the liturgical calendar when the Church is not in one of the special seasons of the year, such as Advent, Christmas, Lent or Easter.

Answer 2

Each part of the liturgical year has either a special season or is in 'ordinary time'. A special season are things like: Lent, Easter, Advent, and Christmas. Whenever the Church isn't celebrating one of these, it is Ordinary Time.

Meaning of Ordinary TimeThe English name "Ordinary" is intended to translate the Latin term Tempus per annum (literally "time through the year"). This doesn't mean that Ordinary Time was nothing special, because Jesus preformed miracles all throughout the year. This means that, because Ordinary Time takes up more than half of the liturgical year, it is referred to as: Tempus per annum, or "time through the year."

Ordinary time are those periods throughout the liturgical year when the church is not commemorating a special season such as Lent, Advent, Christmas and Easter.

Each part of the liturgical year has either a special season or is in 'Ordinary Time'. A special season are things like: Lent, Easter, Advent, and Christmas. Whenever the Church isn't celebrating one of these, it is Ordinary Time.
The Roman Catholic liturgical calendar is split into various season such as Lent, Advent, Easter, etc. Ordinary time is simply the time not assigned to these named season. The weeks in ordinary time are numbered sequentially.

For more details see the Wikipedia entry in the reference.
The term "Ordinary Time" is a misnomer. No part of the liturgical calendar is ordinary. Traditionally, the two periods now called "Ordinary Time" in the New Rite were called "Time after Epiphany" and "Time after Pentecost".

Answer 3

This is actually time after Pentecost in the Traditional Calendar. It is the time between Pentecost and Advent where there is no specific preparation or celebration of a specific feast.

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Ordinary Time in the Liturgical calendar is called Time throughout the Year in Latin, and refers to those two groups of Sundays which are not assigned to a particular Season such as Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter. So the Sundays from the end of Christmas until the beginning of Lent, and again from the day after Pentecost until the beginning of Advent are "Ordinary Time".

Answer 4

Although church events in Ordinary time are "ordinary", unlike Advent, Lent, Christmas, or Easter seasons, it really means "counted time through the year" as in 1st,2nd, 3rd Sundays in Ordinary time, through the number 34,etc. It comes from the Latin word for ordinal.

Answer 5

It is called Ordinary which means regular, or normal, as opposed to other times in the church year which are special, like Advent, Christmas , Lent, and Easter. Ordinary also refers to ordered, or numbered, as in 1-34 weeks in Ordinary Time

Answer 6

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Catholic AnswerOrdinary Time, or, literally, "time through the year" in the Latin is just the time after Epiphany before Lent, and after Pentecost before Advent that is not asigned to any special season.

Answer 7

Between the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord and Ash Wednesday

Also between Pentecost and The Feast of Christ the King

Answer 8

It is a time in the Catholic Church that there is no special holidays or observances. It is over 50% of the liturgical year.