Category: Ordinary Time

For a doctrinal homily outline for the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time for Year B, click here. If you are a homilist and have written a homily based in part on these outlines, I’d love the opportunity to print some of them for the edification of our readers. You can find earlier examples by typing…

To access a doctrinal homily outline for the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time click here. Central idea: Give all you have to God. Doctrine: Poverty of heart. Practical application: Voluntary humility.  

A Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time can be found by clicking here. The title I gave it is the gift of faith and our response. Central idea: Faith which saves. Doctrine: Faith is a gift of God. Practical application: Faith in action. Here is an excerpt based on the Responsorial Psalm: Throughout our…

For a doctrinal homily outline for the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, click here. Central idea: Prayer in the face of difficulties. Doctrine: Christ’s redemptive death in God’s plan of salvation. Practical application: Co-redeemers with Christ. Here is an excerpt: With the grace of the redemption, we can freely join ourselves to Christ’s saving work. The words…

For a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, click here. Here is how it breaks down: Central idea: True wealth and how to attain it. Doctrine: The danger of wealth and the need for it. Practical application: Corporal and spiritual works of justice and mercy. Here is a tiny excerpt: Why…

For a complete doctrinal homily outline for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, click here. Central idea: Marriage. Doctrine: Conjugal fidelity. Practical application: Witness conjugal fidelity in deed and word. Here is a snippet: Adam and Eve were created married. Husband-wife is the most fundamental and essential human relationship. It gives rise to the second fundamental and essential relationship: child-parent.

For a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, click here. Central idea: Value the good others possess; abhor your own evil. Doctrine: Ecumenism. Practical application: How to be a more ecumenical Catholic. This post presents (I hope) authentic Catholic thinking on the controversial issue of ecumenism, based on the Sacred Scriptures and the Catechism…

For a full doctrinal homily outline for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, click here. Central idea: The greatness of the lowly. Doctrine: The virtue of service and the vice of envy. Practical application: Humble and admiring nobility. Here is an excerpt: Just as in last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus asks his apostles a question. This time they do…

A Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time can be accessed here. It is titled “Signs of Mercy.” Central idea: The revelation of God’s mercy. Doctrine: Jesus used signs to convey his gifts and so do the Sacraments of the Church. Practical application: Go to the Sacraments and to the needy. Here is a snippet:…

Click here for a full doctrinal homily outline for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Law of Love – Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Central idea: The moral law tells us what is right, but evil desires arise from within us. Doctrine: The Law of Love perfects the Mosaic Law. Practical application: Soul searching.

Click here for a doctrinal homily outline for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time. Central idea: Commitment to Christ. Doctrine: God’s fidelity and love lived in Christian marriage. Practical application: Renewal of commitment. Here is an excerpt from the responsorial psalm Each person has to decide what his way of life will be. Joshua asks the Israelites which…