Perhaps you've noticed that this liturgy returns us to what we call the ordinary Sundays of the year. The last time we celebrated an ordinary Sunday was the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. Then we went through Lent, Holy Week, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the Ascension, the Descent (of the Holy Spirit) on Pentecost, and finally we completed all of that and now we're back to ordinary time. It's quite unusual, in a sense, that where we begin at ordinary time is, in a way, back where we were almost a year ago.