Category: Ordinary Time

Here is the link to a revised and updated Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time for Year C. Central Idea: Loving persons over things. Doctrine: Four forms of justice. Practical Application: Becoming more just.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Perfect and imperfect contrition. Examination of conscience.

Natural and supernatural prudence

According to David Isaacs, “A humble person recognizes his own inadequacy, qualities and abilities, and presses them into service, doing good without attracting attention or expecting the applause of others.” Here is the link to an updated are revised doctrinal homily outline for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time for Year C. Central Idea: The…

Here is a link to the updated and revised outline for the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

Here is the link to the revised and updated outline for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

God will do what he has promised. The theological virtue of faith. Recognizing God in the ordinary.

Work is the source of a decent life or even riches, although neither is the basis of happiness: That belongs to God. Next Sunday’s readings focus on the futility of working apart from God’s will. The Lectionary 114 readings for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, are here. To prepare a homily or for your…

Knowing, loving, and serving God is like going on a diet and exercise plan. But it is not for two months to lose thirty pounds and to gain a flat stomach. Rather, it is a plan for life to lose all our vices and to gain the mental outlook and natural and supernatural virtues of…

Our Lord was ever the master teacher. He was not merely the teacher of his universal doctrine of salvation. He was also the teacher of individual souls who needed formation. One way he taught persons what they needed to know was by responding to them with something completely unexpected but which they really needed to…

God wants us to become the sort of persons who are ready for eternal life and happiness with Him, and the angels, and all the saved in heaven.  Human freedom is essential for us to become that sort of person—how we respond to everything and what we do.  We become this sort of person by…

The readings for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lectionary 102) can be found here. The Gospel reading recounts Jesus sending out seventy-two disciples to prepare the towns and places he intends to visit.   The seventy-two had only a very limited amount of time to do their work. I think this is why Our Lord directed…