Author: Kevin Aldrich
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Justice and Mercy: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The just try to see that everyone receives the good that is due to them. The Christian has a preferential option for the poor shown in the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
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Justice – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Loving persons over things. Three forms of justice. Becoming more just.
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Contrition — 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Perfect and Imperfect Contrition. Examination of Conscience.
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Natural and Supernatural Prudence: Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
“What one opportunity do I have, that if I took advantage of it, would have the most positive impact on my life and in the lives of those around me?”
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Humble prayer: Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C
The wise are humble. Humility is the foundation of prayer. The prayer of the beggar.
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Ascesis or moral discipline: Twenty-first Sunday in 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.
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The fourth commandment – Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
People often reject those who serve God. The family and an examination of conscience for family life.
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The virtue of faith in ordinary life – Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
God will do what he has promised. The theological virtue of faith. Recognizing God in the ordinary
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Wealth and economic activity – The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our true wealth is God, not a life of greed. Good uses of wealth. Examining our economic activity.
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Wrestling with God in prayer – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Wrestling with God in prayer. Prayer and filial trust. Transformation in Christ.
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Active-contemplative lives
Christ wants to dwell in us to transform us into perfect images of himself through our living active-contemplative lives.
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Love and Law: The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Living the Precepts of the Church well.