A Lectionary-based resource for homilists and the lay faithful
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. Read more »
People often reject those who serve God. The family and an examination of conscience for family life. Read more »
God will do what he has promised. The theological virtue of faith. Recognizing God in the ordinary Read more »
Our true wealth is God, not a life of greed. Good uses of wealth. Examining our economic activity. Read more »
Wrestling with God in prayer. Prayer and filial trust. Transformation in Christ. Read more »
Christ wants to dwell in us to transform us into perfect images of himself through our living active-contemplative lives. Read more »
Living the Precepts of the Church well. Read more »
Prayers of petition: God will give us what we ask for. How to ask. Read more »
Put God first and then live and discern your vocation. Read more »
Christ is the eternal high priest who offers us what he offered to the Father, himself. The Eucharist and Eucharistic adoration Read more »
Next Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, commemorating the central truth not just of our Catholic faith but of all reality. The Lectionary readings 166 are here. For a Doctrinal Homily Outline with the following themes, click here: Central idea: The Most Holy Trinity. Doctrine: The mystery of […] Read more »
Pentecost is the event “where God the Father ‘through his Word, pours into our hearts the Gift that contains all gifts, the Holy Spirit’” (CCC 1082, HD 56). St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that “Gift” is a proper name of the person of the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father […] Read more »
Christ is in heaven, seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for us. He is the way: he is both our destination and the road by which we travel. We can be with him by being like him. We who are on the earth-side of this way can […] Read more »
The readings for Lectionary 57 are here. The Homiletic Directory offers the following Catechism points and themes for the Sixth Sunday of Easter: CCC 2746-2751: Christ’s prayer at the Last Supper CCC 243, 388, 692, 729, 1433, 1848: the Holy Spirit as Advocate/Consoler CCC 1965-1974: the New Law fulfills the Old […] Read more »
The Gospel reading from St. John for the Fifth Sunday of Easter is short but profound. It is Christ’s New Commandment. I give you a new commandment: love one another.As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.This is how all will know that you are my […] Read more »