Pastor's Corner: It's Ordinary Time

Everything is turning green and staying that way for a long time.

If I've kept you up to this point, you may be scratching your head.

This is no ordinary time. We are emerging from a global pandemic. And while the grass may be green as I am writing this, there is no guarantee it won't be golden brown by the time you read this. Or covered in a white blanket of snow. Stranger things have happened. (This particular strange thing happened just two weeks ago, of course.)

No, it is Ordinary Time on the liturgical calendar of the church.

Admittedly, I thought what most people probably do when...