Counting Trinitytide
As one somewhat familiar with the counting of days according to Pentecost, an appreciation of the sequence of days that rubbed off from time served in the Latin Mass community, this blogger has become acquainted with the Ordinariate experience of or discipline of or happy encounter of numbering days according to the Most Holy Trinity. The Ordinariate, you will recall dear Reader, has preserved the Octave of Pentecost as is appropriate for the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. The phrase Ordinary Time, the ordering of the Church Year common to the New Order of the Mass (Novus Ordo Missae), hardly locates the Christian in liturgical time in a way that suggests to the Christian that to be fully Christian one must live with one foot in time and the other firmly planted in eternity. And so, the label "ordinary" has conditioned diocesan Catholics to think in ordinary terms, i.e., bland terms. Diocesan Catholics have become quite ordinary in that they have become, gener...