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 Imaginary Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Imaginary time was introduced to avoid singularities, or points at which the spacetime curvature becomes infinite, that occur in ordinary time.
Imaginary Time and the Wave-Function of the Universe
Although ordinary time begins with the Big Bang, it cannot be truly said that the north pole"begins" the Earth's surface, so imaginary time has no beginning or end.
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 The Liturgical Year
In the context of the liturgical year the term "ordinary" does not mean "usual or average." Ordinary here means "not seasonal." Ordinary Time is that part of the Liturgical Year that lies outside the seasons of Lent-Easter and Advent-Christmas.
In addition, some Sundays of Ordinary Time are superceded by a solemnity that coincides with a Sunday, e.g., The Most Holy Trinity or Christ the King, the last Sunday of the liturgical year.
Ordinary Time resumes after the Easter Season, on the Monday after Pentecost, and continues until evening prayer on the Saturday before the First Sunday of Advent.
www.cyberfaith.com /calendar/ordinary.html   (737 words)

  
 Saint Anne Parish and Shrine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
During this period of Ordinary Time which covers the seasons of summer and fall, many things will happen in our lives from graduations to summer vacation to a return to a more usual routine in the fall.
Ordinary Time begins on Monday, June 5, 2006 after a break of three months for the seasons of Lent and Easter.
All the weeks of Ordinary Time are being celebrated this year, since we pick up the eighth week on June 5th, having concluded the seventh week at the end of February for the beginning of Lent.
www.stanneshrine.com /ordinary_time.htm   (672 words)

  
 Ordinary Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ordinary Time is a season of the Christian (especially the Catholic) liturgical calendar.
Ordinary Time is the periods which do not fall under the "strong seasons" of Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter.
The season of Ordinary Time begins with the Baptism of the Lord (white), which normally falls on the Sunday after January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany (white).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ordinary_Time   (515 words)

  
 From Parishes - January 18, 1998 - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Ordinary Time, the celebration of Sunday, is the identifying mark of the Christian community which comes together, remembering that on the first day of the week the Lord of Life was raised up and creation came at last to completion.
For the next six weeks or so we are back in "Ordinary Time," that section of the liturgical year when we focus on putting into practice the particular mystery or event in Christ's life that we have just celebrated.
On this second Sunday in Ordinary Time we focus our attention on the wedding feast at Cana to highlight the fact that the life and mission of married couples is one of the basic human ways for Christ to show the world how much he loves us.
www.catholic-forum.com /from_parishes/from_parishes_980118.html   (1748 words)

  
 Ordinary Time: Counted Time of the Church Year
Christmas Season encompasses the time of preparation during Advent and the celebration of the Twelve Days of Christmas and Epiphany in early January (the 6th).
The Easter Season encompasses the time of preparation during the 40 weekdays of Lent and Holy Week, and is linked with Pentecost Sunday 50 days later.
The 33 or 34 Sundays of Ordinary Time (23 to 28 Sundays after Pentecost) are used to focus on various aspects of the Faith, especially the mission of the church in the world.
www.cresourcei.org /cyordinary.html   (785 words)

  
 Liturgical Calendar: Ordinary Time, Benziger
Lent is a solemn time of preparation for the joy of Easter when Christ rose from the dead.
Ordinary Time takes its name from the Latin word, ordinal, which means numbered.
This time presents many opportunities to focus on the teachings and parables of Jesus and on the demands of being a follower of Christ.
www.mhschool.com /benziger/program/cjtw/home/ordinary.shtml   (223 words)

  
 LM
Ordinary time includes the Monday after the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord through the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, and the Monday after Pentecost through the Saturday before the First Sunday of Advent.
Ordinary time can be understood in terms of the living out of Christian faith and the meaning of Christ's resurrection in ordinary life.
The term "ordinary time" is not used in the Prayer Book, but the season after Pentecost can be considered ordinary time.
www.ecusa.anglican.org /19625_14928_ENG_HTM.htm   (320 words)

  
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After time passes, the disciples try to persuade him to send the crowd away.
We are in the midst of a troubled time.
Jesus heard what the disciples said, when the hour was growing late and they longed for a time of quiet away from the multitude, but he also saw their desire to separate their smaller group from the crowd.
ordinarytime.blogspot.com   (2969 words)

  
 Ordinary Time
Ordinary time, the numbered Sundays of the year and the weeks in between them, is the time for us to practice our discipleship.
The scriptures in ordinary time focus on what Jesus taught, and on the responses, of apostles, disciples, followers, and bystanders - to say nothing of the religious and civil leaders, to that teaching.
So as you hear Jesus' stories during ordinary time, don't forget to remember to notice that, what Jesus told people 2000 years ago, he is still teaching us and having us practice today.
www.paulist.org /bradcsp/page4.html   (188 words)

  
 Liturgical Seasons : Advent | Christmas | Ordinary Time | Lent | Easter
Of course, many feast days and solemnities occur in Ordinary Time: the Most Holy Trinity, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Saints Peter and Paul, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, All Saints, and All Souls, for example.
Lent is a time of penance, so that the faithful may share in the joys of Easter Sunday with purity of heart.
Easter is such a special time that it continues not just for the eight days of the octave of Easter (all celebrated as solemnities of the Lord), but for 50 days (including Sundays and counting Easter Sunday itself) of the season of Easter.
www.shrinesf.org /seasons.htm   (1444 words)

  
 ReadingGroupGuides.com -- Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
In Christian Liturgy, Ordinary Time is that period of time in which there are no major holy days.
It was a time of naïveté that we'll never see again, and yet it was also a time when some of the more basic rules of morality were starting to be questioned.
These are really the stories of ordinary lives, of people caught in the everyday struggles of everyday life.
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/songs_in_ordinary_time-author.asp   (648 words)

  
 Ordinary Time: All About Ordinary Time (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Ordinary Time is the liturgical period outside of the named liturgical seasons, named "ordinary" because it is derived from the word ordinal or "numbered." It falls immediately after Christmastide and then again after the Easter Season.
Essentially then Ordinary Time is that part of the year that does not fall within the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter.
Ordinary time does not need to be "ordinary," and is not meant to mean that somehow we get a break from the Liturgical Year.
www.churchyear.net.cob-web.org:8888 /ordinary.html   (921 words)

  
 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
The failure of Israel's monarchy prompted the people to look to the future, to a time when a king or Messiah who was totally faithful to God would establish God's kingdom.
Unlike the Greek chronos meaning chronological time, kairos means God's time has come and because we live in chronological time we can think that God's time has surely come and gone but that is not the case.
This geographical area also has a number of Gentiles living among the Jews and Matthew is referring to the darkness of their minds because they are unaware of the light God is offering to them.
www.homeless.org.au /rebeccas-community/3rd-sunday-in-ordinary-time.htm   (1224 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Ordinary Time (Seasonal Overview)
If the faithful are to mature in the spiritual life and increase in faith, they must descend the great mountain peaks of Easter and Christmas in order to "pasture" in the vast verdant meadows of tempus annum, or Ordinary Time.
Ordinary Time, meaning ordered or numbered time, is celebrated in two segments: from the Monday following the Baptism of Our Lord up to Ash Wednesday; and from Pentecost Monday to the First Sunday of Advent.
In vestments usually green, the color of hope and growth, the Church counts the thirty-three or thirty-four Sundays of Ordinary Time, inviting her children to meditate upon the whole mystery of Christ – his life, miracles and teachings – in the light of his Resurrection.
www.catholicculture.org /lit/overviews/seasons/ordinary.cfm   (366 words)

  
 Catholic Online Forum Discussion Area: 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." Since the Vatican II reforms, the last part of that has been included in the Mass as an optional salutation.
This period of Ordinary Time is among other things a long reflection given to us by Holy Mother Church on the day to day details of Christian life.
These ICEL prayers of Ordinary Time seem, by and large, less in harmony with the Latin originals than those of the stronger seasons of Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter.
oldforum.catholic.org /discussion/messages/28/13647.html?981237915   (1322 words)

  
 Ordinary Time - Bulletin Insert from Modern Liturgy 10/96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Ordinary Time, the longest portion of the church year, fills the weeks which do not celebrate a specific aspect of the mystery of Christ.
Ordinary Time is devoted to the mystery of Christ in all its aspects.
The number of the weeks of Ordinary Time replaces the old counting of weeks after Epiphany and after Pentecost.
www.rpinet.com /ml/2308bi1.html   (371 words)

  
 PC(USA) - Ideas! For Church Leaders
The standard for worship is, therefore, the ordinary time of Sunday in the week-to-week progression of time.
Twice each year, however, Ordinary Time is heightened by the extraordinary time of the Christmas and Easter cycles.
The interruption of Ordinary Time by the Christmas and Easter cycles results in two segments of Ordinary Time: a period of four to nine weeks following Epiphany, and a period of about one-half of the year (from 23 to 28 weeks) following Pentecost.
www.pcusa.org /ideas/2003summer/ordinarytimes.htm   (728 words)

  
 ORDINARY TIME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The ordinary parts of church life go on, as do the ordinary parts of our public life, even while we acknowledge the losses and the continuing grief of the events of September 11 and continue to struggle with their significance.
If we are faithful in bringing these questions to our worship time, our celebration time, our decision-making time, then God will be in it, and there will be no such thing as ordinary time in the life of Sojourners.
It’s an urgent time because the questions and hungers of the spirit are urgent ones.
avenue.org /ucc/programs/sermons/09-08-02.html   (1497 words)

  
 Meredith College : No Ordinary Time: Introduction
Eleanor also might well have used the words 'no ordinary' when referring to herself and to her husband, for indeed they were no ordinary couple--rather they are generally considered to be the most significant male and female political figures of 20th century America.
Around this group that was anything but ordinary, Goodwin weaves the story of the home front during the war - the production of war materials, the role of women, the nascent civil rights movement, the emergence of the industrial military complex, and the preparation for the postwar world.
As time passed, she also appears to have reconciled herself to the memory of Franklin and to have come to understand and to forgive Anna for the part she had played in renewing the relationship between her father and Lucy.
www.meredith.edu /summer-reading/roosevelt/default.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Christ Jesus, the Way, The Liturgical Year, Ordinary Time
Lent is a time of conversion when we think again about who we have become and who God calls us to be.
The Easter Vigil celebrates the first light of resurrection and salvation.  The new Paschal candle is carried into the Church, as are the holy oils used throughout the year.
For the first time since Lent began the alleluias are sung in honor of the risen Christ.  New Catholics are initiated through the reception of Baptism, Holy Eucharist, and Confirmation.  The message that Christ has died, Christ is risen and Christ will come again are at the center of these days.
www.mhschool.com /benziger/program/cjtw/home/ordinary2.shtml   (527 words)

  
 The Abbot's Homily for 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
In those days, I, Daniel, heard this word of the Lord: "At that time there shall arise Michael, the great prince, guardian of your people; it shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until that time.
These days at the end of Ordinary Time keep our hearts and minds focused on these great realities: that the world will end and that the end for which it was created will be accomplished.
So these last Sundays of Ordinary Time and the first Sundays of Advent are a time for us to think deeply, to feel the presence of God, to reflect on how we are living and to ask God to give us the strength to live faithfully with Him no matter what happens.
www.christdesert.org.cob-web.org:8888 /news/homily.php   (804 words)

  
 Ordinary Time
As the ordinary time of the year draws to a close, and we look forward to the beginning of a new year at Advent, we contemplate the end of the world and the second coming of our Lord in glory, with all the saints, to judge the living and the dead.
The five wise virgins were prudent, not only to bring sufficient oil in order to keep their lamps alight until the master returned, but also to refuse to give away the oil they needed for themselves in order to undergo the trial of waiting and watching in darkness.
"According to the Lord, the present time is the time of the Spirit and of witness, but also a time still marked by 'distress' and the trial of evil which does not spare the Church (Acts 1:8) and ushers in the struggles of the last days.
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 Austin Area Interreligious Ministries – Clergy Corner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
By the time Ordinary Time is over, I am ready for the variety, color and specificity of the seasons that mark the life of Christ.
By the end of that time, I am ready for the celebration of Christ's birth, Holy Week, the commemoration of his death, and then resurrection on Easter, and then on to Pentecost, when we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit.
It is a time of preparation and contemplation.
www.aaimaustin.org /clergy/OrdinaryTimeRicke.htm   (676 words)

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