Category: Ordinary Time

God will help us overcome our evildoing through his fatherly discipline. A child of God is to become a strong doer of good through moral discipline. An important moral discipline is ascesis or mastery of the soul over the body.

People often reject those who serve God. The family and an examination of conscience for family life.

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

Our true wealth is God, not a life of greed. Good uses of wealth. Examining our economic activity.

Wrestling with God in prayer. Prayer and filial trust. Transformation in Christ.

Christ wants to dwell in us to transform us into perfect images of himself through our living active-contemplative lives.

Living the Precepts of the Church well.

Prayers of petition: God will give us what we ask for. How to ask.

Put God first and then live and discern your vocation.

Christ is the eternal high priest who offers us what he offered to the Father, himself. The Eucharist and Eucharistic adoration

Central idea: Be good. Doctrine: Forming conscience and decision-making. Practical application: Form and obey your conscience.

Central idea: Christ’s new law for the new person. Doctrine: Christ as the New Adam. Practical application: Living as New Adams and Eves ourselves. To view Lectionary 81, click here.  Reading 1 1 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 In those days, Saul went down to the desert of Ziphwith three thousand picked men of Israel,to search for…