📖 Biblical Definition
Trinity Season is the long season of the historic church year beginning Trinity Sunday (the Sunday after Pentecost) and running through Christ the King Sunday at the close of November, just before Advent. Sometimes called Ordinary Time, it is the longest stretch of the liturgical calendar — roughly half the year — and is given to the Christian’s growth in discipleship under triune grace. After the great festival cycle (Advent → Christmas → Epiphany → Lent → Easter → Pentecost) rehearses what God has done, Trinity Season catechizes what the Christian is to be. The lectionary turns to wisdom literature, the sermon on the mount, and the epistles’ ethical instruction. Holy living is the season’s theme.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
Long season of discipleship under triune grace.
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The long season of the church year beginning Trinity Sunday — the Sunday after Pentecost — running through Christ the King Sunday and into Advent; focused on growth in discipleship under triune grace; alternative name for Ordinary Time in some traditions.
📖 Key Scripture
Matthew 28:19 — "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
2 Corinthians 13:14 — "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen."
Ephesians 4:13 — "Till we all come in the unity of the faith... unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Often the most-skipped season; pastors lean on holiday seasons but the long discipleship season is where formation happens.
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Christmas and Easter are the bookends; Trinity Season is the long road of formation between. Most growth happens here. Pastors who teach hardest in this 'ordinary' time disciple deepest.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Greek trias — three.
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['Greek', 'G5140', 'treis', 'three']
['Latin', '—', 'trinitas', 'trinity']
Usage
"Teach hard during the long Trinity season."
"Formation happens in ordinary time."