Doctrinal Homily Outlines: a resource for homilists and the lay faithful
-
Christmas 2022
The Nativity of Christ The Lectionary for the Novus Ordo offers four sets of readings. These correspond to the time of night or day this great solemnity is celebrated. Homily or devotional outlines for all four can be accessed here by scrolling down. The homilist knows that Christmas in many places presents a special challenge…
-
The Fourth Sunday of Advent
The lectionary readings for the First Sunday of Advent are about the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. This event took place in the virginal womb of Mary. The Doctrinal Homily Outline for these readings first considers Jesus Christ as Emmanuel, God being with us. Second is the doctrine of the Incarnation, that God became man. Third…
-
Immaculate Conception and the Third Sunday of Advent
Thursday of this week is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. It is a Holy Day of Obligation. Sadly, not that many Catholics care or it does not even enter their minds that the Church requires us to attend Holy Mass or that it is for our own good to do so. We live in…
-
Second Sunday of Advent
The Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Second Sunday of Advent can be found here. If you are just interested in the readings for Lectionary 4, they are here. The central idea I gleaned form the readings is Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand. The Doctrine focuses on the Gifts of the Holy…
-
First Sunday of Advent – Year A
With the First Sunday of Advent, Year A, the Magisterium of the Church invites us to begin again on our road to salvation and sanctification. These are two of the most precious gifts Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ offers us. He took on a human nature in order to give them to us, if…
-
Christ the King
Christ is the King of the Universe. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. Prayer for the acceptance of death.
-
How to live before the Second Coming: Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C
Our period of salvation history and how we are to live in it. The Second Coming of Christ and the Final Judgment. How to live in this age.
-
Beatific Vision: Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C
The reward of eternal life. The Beatific Vision. Meditation on the Beatific Vision.
-
Reading Divine Goodness: Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C
God’s loving goodness and lectio divina
-
Justice and Mercy – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Year C
God is just and merciful and we should be too.
-
Perseverance in faith: Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C
Natural, supernatural, and Final perseverance in living the Faith.
-
The Glory of God: Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
How do we give glory to God?
Leave a comment