Category: Ordinary Time
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If Your Brother Sins against You: Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Central idea: Admonishing the sinner. Doctrine: Fraternal correction. Practical application: How to give fraternal correction.
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Take Up Your Cross: Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Cross of Christ. The cross of a follower of Christ. Taking up one’s cross.
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The Keys of the Kingdom: The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Central idea: The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Doctrine: The Office of the Pope. Practical application: Cooperating with the Pope and Our Bishop.
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Salvation and the virtue of justice: The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Central idea: God’s salvation is for everyone who wants it. Doctrine: Living out our salvation by doing what is just. Practical application: Being more just. Lectionary 118. Central Idea: God’s salvation is for everyone who wants it Reading 1 Is 56:1, 6-7 Thus says the LORD: Observe what is right, do what is just; for…
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Pray with filial boldness – Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Central idea: Salvation for all. Doctrine: The power of invocation with sincere faith. Practical application: Pray with filial boldness.
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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass during the Day
Central Idea: The Blessed Virgin Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant. Doctrine: The Assumption. Practical Application: Devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Lectionary 622. Central Idea: The Blessed Virgin Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant. Reading 1 Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant…
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The Prayer of Christ’s Followers: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Christ’s prayer to the Father. The prayer of Jesus and Mary. Important norms for our own life of prayer.
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Guest Homily – The Gifts of the Holy Spirit of Knowledge and Understanding
(This is a very powerful homily I heard this past Sunday, whose author kindly gave me permission to share with all of you. The Catholic faithful need to hear many more like this!) RIGHT AND WRONG: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A homily given by Fr. Dennis Koliński, SJC Sacred Heart Church in Springfield, Illinois…
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Christ’s miracles and the spiritual works of mercy: The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Written as an aid for homilists and a resource for the faithful, this doctrinal homily outline (1) provides insights into the Lectionary readings, (2) explicates a doctrine of Catholic Faith or morals from them, and (3) shows specific ways lay persons can live these truths. (To read more about this approach, click here.) Central idea…
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The prudence of choosing Christ: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The prudence of choosing Christ. The virtue of prudence. Growing in prudence.
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Judgment and mercy: Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
A consequence of God’s justice and mercy is the Last Judgment, for which we can prepare by conversion and penance.
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Parables and freedom: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The parables of Christ teach us we should surrender our freedom to God to become really free.