Category: Ordinary Time
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Baptism of the Lord
Here are three outlines for the Baptism of the Lord. The image is by El Greco. Isaiah prophesied Christ and acts of contrition Christ’s kenosis or self-emptying The heart of the Blessed Trinity
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The Solemnity Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Central 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 Time
Central 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 Time
Central 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 Time
Central 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 Time
Central 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 Time
Central 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 Time
Central 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 B
If your hand causes you to sin.
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Conjugal fidelity – Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Central 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 Time
Central 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…