Ordinary Time
For the next 8 weeks we are celebrating Ordinary Time in the Church. We enter into this liturgical time between Christmas and Lent as we return to the liturgical color green. While we listen to gospels from Matthew, Mark and Luke mainly, there are many lessons from Mark particularly during the weekdays. Because the term ordinary in English most often means something that's not special or distinctive, many people think that Ordinary Time refers to parts of the calendar of the Catholic Church that are unimportant. Even though the season of Ordinary Time makes up most of the liturgical year in the Catholic Church, the fact that Ordinary Time refers to those periods that fall outside of the major liturgical seasons reinforces this impression. Yet Ordinary Time is far from unimportant or uninteresting.


Why Is Ordinary Time Called Ordinary?
Ordinary Time is called "ordinary" not because it is common but simply because the weeks of Ordinary Time are numbered. The Latin word ordinalis, which refers to numbers in a series, stems from the Latin word ordo, from which we get the English word order. Thus, the numbered weeks of Ordinary Time in fact represent the ordered life of the Church—the period in which we live our lives neither in feasting (as in the Christmas and Easter seasons) or in more severe penance (as in Advent and Lent) but in watchfulness and expectation of the Second Coming of Christ. It's appropriate, therefore, that the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (which is actually the first Sunday celebrated in Ordinary Time) always features either John the Baptist's acknowledgment of Christ as the Lamb of God or Christ's first miracle—the transformation of water into wine at the wedding at Cana. Thus for Catholics, Ordinary Time is the part of the year in which
Christ, the Lamb of God, walks among us and transforms our lives. There's nothing "ordinary" about that!

In just eight short weeks we will enter in Lent, a time of purple and penitence and preparation for the fullness of God’s gift of Christ at Bethlehem at Christmastime—the Resurrection of the Lord and of life everlasting. Certainly better than a chocolate bunny or a black jelly bean anytime—even if its Munson’s orGodiva’s!

(source: Catholic Online).