Category: Ordinary Time
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Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
For a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, click here. Central idea: Be good. Doctrine: Forming conscience and decision-making. Practical application: Form and obey your conscience.
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Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
For a complete Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, please click here. Here are the main parts based on Lectionary 81: Central idea: Christ’s new law for the new person. Doctrine: Christ as the New Adam. Practical application: Living as New Adams and Eves ourselves.
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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
To view a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, please click here. Central idea: True poverty and riches. Doctrine: Poverty of heart and Christ’s grief over the rich. Practical application: Growing in detachment.
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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
To access two doctrinal homily outlines for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, click on either link below. The fear proper to a child of God. The virtue of awe and the vice of presumption. Monday, February 3, the date you will receive this post, is the centennial of the birth of my father, Louis…
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The Presentation of the Lord
For a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Feast of the Presentation, please click here. Central idea: Christ purifies man. Doctrine: Sin. Practical application: Our moral struggle. In the Gospel reading, Simeon declares that this forty-day-old-child that Mary and Joseph have brought to the Temple of Jerusalem is the Savior that God promised this old man would see before…
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Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
For links to two Doctrinal Homily Outlines for the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, please click below: The Gospel and daily evangelization Reading the living and incarnate Word of God
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Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
Here are links to two Doctrinal Homily Outlines for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C. The Senses of Sacred Scripture Spousal life
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The Baptism of the Lord
To access three doctrinal homily outlines for the Baptism of the Lord, please click on the links below. Isaiah prophesied Christ and acts of contrition Christ’s kenosis or self-emptying The heart of the Blessed Trinity With my high school freshmen, two things I want them to remember about Christ’s baptism are that Our Lord wished…
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The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
We are coming to the end of another liturgical year. For a doctrinal homily outline for the Solemnity of Christ the King, Year B, click here. Here is a small detail from the outline, pertaining to our presence at Holy Mass. One of the reasons we attend Mass is to offer Christ the worship or adoration…
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Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
For a doctrinal homily outline for the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time for Year B, click here. If you are a homilist and have written a homily based in part on these outlines, I’d love the opportunity to print some of them for the edification of our readers. You can find earlier examples by typing…
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Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
To access a doctrinal homily outline for the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time click here. Central idea: Give all you have to God. Doctrine: Poverty of heart. Practical application: Voluntary humility.
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The Solemnity of All Saints and the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
For a doctrinal homily outline for the Solemnity of All Saints, click here. The central idea is saints get to be with God. The doctrine and practical application are on the beatitudes and what they lead to: beatitude. For an outline on the readings for the Thirty-first Sunday, click here. Central Idea: We love God by…