The non-festal weeks of the Christian liturgical year — the seasons between the major feast-cycles. The Western Christian year has two stretches of Ordinary Time: the weeks between Epiphany and Lent (a shorter stretch, usually January through February), and the longer stretch between Pentecost / Trinity Sunday and Advent (most of June through November). During Ordinary Time, lectionary readings cycle through extended passages of the Gospels and Epistles without the focused thematic emphasis of the festal seasons. The name ordinary is sometimes misunderstood as suggesting these weeks are unimportant; in fact, they are ordinal, simply numbered (the third week, the seventh week, etc.) and pastorally significant: most of Christian life is lived in ordinary time, in the long-arc faithfulness between the highlight moments. The Reformed and Evangelical traditions have not always adopted the term, but the practical reality is universal — the church spends most of its year in the long stretches between Christmas and Easter and between Pentecost and Advent.