Category: Ordinary Time
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Click below for a Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Living active-contemplative lives Throughout much of Catholic history, the story of Martha and Mary has been important for understanding the relationship between contemplation and activity. When Thomas Aquinas examines these kinds of lives he uses Martha and Mary as examples (ST II,II,…
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
For an outline for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, please click below. Live the Precepts of the Church better Here is its structure: Central Idea: Love God and neighbor according to rightful law. Doctrine: The Precepts of the Church. Practical Application: Living the precepts better.
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
To view the Doctrinal Homily Outline for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time click below. Prayer of petition
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Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
For a doctrinal homily outline for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles (the Mass during the day), please click here. Central idea: Peter and the pope, and the apostles and bishops. Doctrine: The hierarchical structure of the Church. Practical application: Assisting the hierarchy.
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Ascension or Seventh Sunday of Easter
For a Doctrinal Homily Outline for either the Ascension (Lectionary 58, the first two links) or the Seventh Sunday of Easter (Lectionary 61, the third link), click below. Confidence we can reach our High Priest in heaven Children of God the Father Seventh Sunday: Participation in Christ’s communion
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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