It’s not mentioned in Scripture. Its name is absent from the Book of Common Prayer. But the purpose of Ordinary Time is woven throughout both. And, though this time is labeled “ordinary,” it’s far from unimportant. Ordinary Time is comprised of two periods in the liturgical year that stretch between the Christmas and Easter cycles.…

Ordinary Time is that slow, maturing growth time when Jesus shows us our hearts and within them, the wheat and tares that grow therein. During these times in our Christian development, when we think that we are growing worse rather than better, it may well be that we are, instead, about to experience a harvest.

As you read each chapter, Liturgy of the Ordinary begins to reveal the intentionality we are called to in that identity, that vocation. We do this by applying the pattern of Christ to the messy fabric of our lives. Warren shows us how we can rip apart the torn seams to stitch them together anew, with care and Christ at the center of our personal liturgies.

Ordinary Time refers to the days between the Feast of the Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, as well as the “ordinal" (numbered) weeks of Pentecost after Trinity Sunday.