Celebrating Extraordinary Ordinary Time course
Liturgical, theological and pastoral opportunities
We can be tempted to view the liturgical year as two great “high seasons” centred around Christmas and Easter, with some rather non-descript and potentially boring periods in between, where there is no particular emphasis, and where there is even the risk of things appearing to be dull or mundane. The decision by the Church of England in the year 2002 to badge these periods as “Ordinary Time” has possibly not helped the situation!
In this online morning seminar we will have the opportunity to explore Ordinary Time in a little more detail, and to reclaim this period of the church year as containing its own wonderful dignity and joy, and being pregnant with liturgical, pastoral and theological opportunities.
We will remind ourselves exactly how Ordinary Time works, and note the distinctive nature of the two periods: the first short period in the spring, and the much longer time through the summer and autumn. We will explore the myriad theological and scriptural themes that these times present us with as leaders of worship, preachers, ministers and Christians at worship.
Ordinary Time comes with a set of distinctive feasts and festivals of an agricultural or rural nature, as well as the ‘fixed’ feasts of various holy men and women, and those will be explored, but we will also look at the much wider opportunities to use this season in a variety of flexible and creative ways.
About the course leader
Tom Clammer OC is a spiritual director and a Brother of the Anglican Order of Cistercians, and has been living under that Rule for the last five years, which has excited him to encourage every Christian to consider forming their own Rule of Life. In June 2024 he was appointed as Novice Master.
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