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Last Sunday, Carrie Giebel, the director of Young Adult Ministry in the Diocese of San Diego, invited all recent grads and young adults (ages 18-39) to get involved and stay connected in a young adult community as you grow in your relationship with Christ. Take this opportunity to meet your Catholic peers in the San Diego area!

Because of the connotations of the term ordinary in English, many people think that Ordinary Time refers to the parts of the Church year that are unimportant, those parts not included in the major seasons (Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter). However, Ordinary Time is called "ordinary" simply because weeks are numbered. The Latin word ordinalis refers to numbers in a series, stemming from the Latin word ordo, from which the English word order arises. Thus, Ordinary Time is the ordered life of the Church.