Category: Lent

Central idea: Medicinal suffering. Doctrine and practical application: Virtues needed to live the truth.

Central idea: God’s Law and Jesus Christ. Doctrine: God’s law, the natural law, civil law, and conscience. Practical application: Obeying God and not men.

Central idea: God wants to bestow life. Doctrine: The problem of suffering. Practical application: Alleviate others’ suffering.

Central idea: Sin and its remedy. Doctrine: Concupiscence and self-mastery. Practical application: Lenten activities.

Resurrection from the dead. Death and hope in our own resurrection. A proper awareness of death.

Christ is the light of the world. We are to be lights of the world.

Living water. Free acceptance of the Gospel. Conforming our hearts to God’s will.

Grace. Our response. The promise of eternal life.

God is merciful to sinners. Concupiscence and self-mastery. Lenten activities.

This Sunday’s readings present God’s promises to the Patriarch Abraham, St. Paul on the glory that awaits us in heaven, and Christ’s glorification on the mountain of Transfiguration. For an outline that focuses on the relationship between suffering and glory, click here. For an outline that draws out implications for us of being citizens of…

Central idea: Loving life by hating it. Doctrine: The virtue of temperance or selfless self-preservation. Practical application: Personal encounter with Christ.