The wise are humble. Humility is the foundation of prayer. The prayer of the beggar. Read more »
Humble prayer: Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C
Ascesis or moral discipline: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
God will help us overcome our evildoing through his fatherly discipline. A child of God is to become a strong doer of good through moral discipline. An important moral discipline is ascesis or mastery of the soul over the body. Read more »
The fourth commandment – Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
People often reject those who serve God. The family and an examination of conscience for family life. Read more »
The virtue of faith in ordinary life – Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
God will do what he has promised. The theological virtue of faith. Recognizing God in the ordinary Read more »
Wealth and economic activity – The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our true wealth is God, not a life of greed. Good uses of wealth. Examining our economic activity. Read more »
Wrestling with God in prayer – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Wrestling with God in prayer. Prayer and filial trust. Transformation in Christ. Read more »
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Active-contemplative lives
Christ wants to dwell in us to transform us into perfect images of himself through our living active-contemplative lives. Read more »
Love and Law: The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Living the Precepts of the Church well. Read more »
Prayer of Petition: The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Prayers of petition: God will give us what we ask for. How to ask. Read more »
Vocation – The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Put God first and then live and discern your vocation. Read more »
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Christ is the eternal high priest who offers us what he offered to the Father, himself. The Eucharist and Eucharistic adoration Read more »
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Central idea: Be good. Doctrine: Forming conscience and decision-making. Practical application: Form and obey your conscience. Read more »
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
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 […] Read more »
True riches and poverty – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Central idea: True poverty and riches. Doctrine: Poverty of heart and Christ’s grief over the rich. Practical application: Growing in detachment. Read more »
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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. Read more »