Author: Kevin Aldrich
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			 First Sunday of Advent – VigilanceCentral idea: Vigilance. Doctrine: The final tribulation and Christ’s Last Judgment. Practical application: Alertness. 
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			 The Solemnity Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the UniverseCentral idea: Christ is my King and God. Doctrine: Christ as Lord and King. Practical application: Reigning by serving. 
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			 Judgment: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary TimeCentral idea: The last days and things. Doctrine: The Last Judgment and the hope of a new heaven and a new earth. Practical application: What to do now to be ready for the hour of our death. 
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			 Poverty of heart – Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary TimeCentral idea: Give all you have to God. Doctrine: Poverty of heart. Practical application: Voluntary humility. 
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			 Love and Law – Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary TimeCentral Idea: We love God by obeying God’s law. Doctrine: God’s law. Practical application: Three means to grow in obedience to God’s law. 
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			 Gift of faith and our response – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary TimeCentral idea: Faith which saves. Doctrine: Faith is a gift of God. Practical application: Faith in action. 
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			 Redemption and Co-Redemption – Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary TimeCentral idea: Prayer in the face of difficulties. Doctrine: Christ’s redemptive death in God’s plan of salvation. Practical application: Co-redeemers with Christ. 
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			 The wealth of wisdom – Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary TimeCentral idea: True wealth and how to attain it. Doctrine: The danger of wealth and the need for it. Practical application: Corporal and spiritual works of justice and mercy. 
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			 Guest Homily – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year BIf your hand causes you to sin. 
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			 Conjugal fidelity – Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary TimeCentral idea: What is marriage? Doctrine: Conjugal fidelity. Practical application: Witness conjugal fidelity in deed and word. 
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			 Ecumenism – The Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary TimeCentral idea: Value the good others possess; abhor your own evil. Doctrine: Ecumenism. Practical application: How to be a more ecumenical Catholic. To view Lectionary 137, click here. Central idea: Value the good others possesses; abhor your own evil Reading 1 Nm 11:25-29 The LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Taking… 
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			 Guest Homily for 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B(This is a homily for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, preached by Fr. Kevin Mann, S.J.C. I love the way it moves from the natural, to the supernatural, and then to the very practical. ) Before Texas became a part of the United States it had sought to gain independence from Mexico, so as to…