Category: Ordinary Time

God will do what he has promised. The theological virtue of faith. Recognizing God in the ordinary

Our true wealth is God, not a life of greed. Good uses of wealth. Examining our economic activity.

Wrestling with God in prayer. Prayer and filial trust. Transformation in Christ.

Christ wants to dwell in us to transform us into perfect images of himself through our living active-contemplative lives.

Living the Precepts of the Church well.

Prayers of petition: God will give us what we ask for. How to ask.

Put God first and then live and discern your vocation.

Christ is the eternal high priest who offers us what he offered to the Father, himself. The Eucharist and Eucharistic adoration

Central idea: Be good. Doctrine: Forming conscience and decision-making. Practical application: Form and obey your conscience.

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. To view Lectionary 81, click here.  Reading 1 1 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 In those days, Saul went down to the desert of Ziphwith three thousand picked men of Israel,to search for…

Central idea: True poverty and riches. Doctrine: Poverty of heart and Christ’s grief over the rich. Practical application: Growing in detachment.

The readings are on the virtue of charity and on the call of the prophet Isaiah and of the apostle Peter. Below are links to two outlines.  The fear proper to a child of God. The virtue of awe and the vice of presumption.