When the Church's worship is not being shaped by a season like Advent, Christmas, Lent or Easter and it is not marking one of the festivals of the Church Year, then we are in what the Revised Common Lectionary describes as ‘Ordinary Time'.  Instead of the gourmet feast, we return to good farmhouse cooking, which is never really ‘ordinary' anyway.  Likewise, Sunday worship outside seasons and festivals is never ‘ordinary' either.

We always want to give the best for worship, whatever the time of year.

Ordinary Time shows the Church as we really are when we are not dressed for a special occasion.  People who join us during Ordinary Time find the core of worship with God and for God.  How we arrange and re-arrange the furniture is not such a big deal during Ordinary Time.  Our music-making can be truly from the heart when we lose the self-consciousness of ‘rising to the occasion'.  Similarly, our use of visual and other performing arts (and our preaching too) can have a freedom that touches and transforms us all.  Here is opportunity for meditation, contemplation and silence, for dancing, drama and flags, for dialogue, testimony and narrative, for activity, sharing and movement, for banners, poetry and visual projection, for song, instruments and choral speech... Worship need never be ordinary in Ordinary Time!