| The 'Green Season' |
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Well, here we are in the 'green season' - or 'ordinary time' to others. And some reading this may have no idea what I'm talking about so here's a quick deffo. It's the time in the church calendar from Trinity Sunday till Advent (or till the Kingdom Season if your church does that) and encompasses most of June - October each year. The church colours are green, so the altar cloth, the vicar's stole (the scarf thing round his/her neck) etc. are all green.
I love the green season. I like the sense of ordinariness about it. It's great when the festival seasons start at Advent - going through Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost - but I do tend to get all 'festivalled out' by the time the leaves are on the trees again in the UK. And it seems appropriate (to me, anyway - sorry if you're reading this from another country) that the green season comes during the time when the UK is a great profusion of shades of green, intermingled with flowers.
It is a lovely time of year here - the cold days are over (well, this is the UK so that's not always the case) and the Gulf Stream is working her magic on our climate again. Everyone gets more of a spring (pun intended) in their step and skin starts to glow once more. People are out mowing their grass and planting flowers and - it may be my imagination - but there seem to be more smiles around.
So I love this time of year when I'm out and about, and I love this time of year in our church calendar. There is peace and steadiness in our worship during this season and there is time to think about some ordinary things that get pushed out in the changes of the church seasons.
I wonder, are there any other green season lovers out there? |
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