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It is somewhat of a misnomer when we say that liturgically we have entered “Ordinary Time.” In daily usage the term ordinary has come to mean common, eventless or run-of-the-mill, and it is often used in a pejorative sense. Who wants to be ordinary? But the Church traditionally calls this time (right now, between the Christmas season just passed and the Lent to come) “Tempus Per Annum” or “time throughout the year.”
By now the entire country has seen a video of a supposedly racist confrontation, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, between a grinning young high school student and a Native American elder, chanting and beating a drum.