Ordinary Time is called “ordinary” not because it is common but simply because the weeks of Ordinary Time are numbered.  The numbered weeks of Ordinary Time,  represent the ordered life of the Church—the period in which we live our lives neither in feasting (as in the Christmas and Easter seasons) or in the time of penance (as in Advent and Lent), but in watchfulness and expectation of the Second Coming of Christ.

For Catholics, Ordinary Time is the part of the year in which Christ, the Lamb of God, walks among us and transforms our lives.