Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

For a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, click here.

Here are the three parts:

• Central Idea: The just try to see that everyone receives the good that is due to them.
• Doctrine: The preferential option for the poor.
• Practical Application: The corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Paul tells Timothy (and so us) the same thing in four different ways: pursue virtue; compete well for the faith; lay hold of eternal life; keep the commandment. This is the same as Christ saying, “Strive to enter by the narrow door” (Lk 13:24).