The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ – June 2
To view the readings for Lectionary 169, click here. Central Idea: Christ is the eternal high priest who offers us what he offered to the Father, himself. Gn 14:18-20 When Abraham met Melchizedek,...
View ArticleCatholic homily outline for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B –...
Worthy reception of Holy Communion Central idea: Our Lord is the Bread of Life. Doctrine: The Mass as a memorial. Practical application: Worthy reception of Communion. Written as an aid for homilists...
View ArticleThe Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ – June 2
To view the readings for Lectionary 169, click here. Central Idea: Christ is the eternal high priest who offers us what he offered to the Father, himself. Gn 14:18-20 When Abraham met Melchizedek,...
View ArticleCatholic homily outline for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B –...
Worthy reception of Holy Communion Central idea: Our Lord is the Bread of Life. Doctrine: The Mass as a memorial. Practical application: Worthy reception of Communion. Written as an aid for homilists...
View ArticleThird Sunday of Easter
Lectionary readings for the Third Sunday of Easter is no. 48. The Gospel reading is from John: Jesus’ post-Resurrection appearance to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberius. From the archives, here is a...
View ArticleFourth Sunday of Easter
“The good Shepherd” mosaic in mausoleum of Galla Placidia. Ravenna, Italy. 5th century A.D. Photo by Petar Milošević. The Lectionary 51 readings are some of the most consoling we encounter in Sacred...
View ArticleFifth Sunday of Easter
Imagining the impossible: The New Jerusalem descending from the clouds like a bride adorned for her husband. The Gospel reading from St. John for the Fifth Sunday of Easter is short but profound. It...
View ArticleSixth Sunday of Easter
The readings for Lectionary 57 are here. The Homiletic Directory offers the following Catechism points and themes for the Sixth Sunday of Easter: CCC 2746-2751: Christ’s prayer at the Last Supper CCC...
View ArticleThe Ascension or Seventh Sunday of Easter
Christ is in heaven, seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for us. He is the way: he is both our destination and the road by which we travel. We can be with him by being like him. We...
View ArticlePentecost
El Greco’s Pentecost (full image) Pentecost is the event “where God the Father ‘through his Word, pours into our hearts the Gift that contains all gifts, the Holy Spirit’” (CCC 1082, HD 56). St....
View ArticleTrinity Sunday
“The Holy Trinity” by Pieter Coecke Van Aeist (1502-1550) Next Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, commemorating the central truth not just of our Catholic faith but of all reality. The...
View ArticleThe Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Central idea: Christ is the eternal high priest who offers us what he offered to the Father, himself. Doctrine: The Eucharist. Practical application: Eucharistic Adoration To view Lectionary 169,...
View ArticleVocation – The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Vincent van Gogh “Enclosed Field with Ploughman” (1889) Central idea: God must come first. Doctrine: Vocation. Practical application: Living then discerning your vocation. To view Lectionary 99, click...
View ArticlePrayer of Petition: The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms, and fondled in her lap; as a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.” Central idea: God will give us what we ask for. Doctrine: Prayer of...
View ArticleLove and Law: The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Michelangelo’s “Moses” (detail) Central Idea: Love God and neighbor according to rightful law. Doctrine: The Precepts of the Church. Practical Application: Living the precepts better. To view...
View ArticleSixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Active-contemplative lives
“Christ in the House of Mary and Martha” Vincenzo Campi (ca 1550) Central idea: Christ wants to dwell in us to transform us into perfect images of himself. Doctrine: Active vs. contemplative lives....
View ArticleWrestling with God in prayer – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
John Martin “The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah” (1852) Central Idea: Wrestling with God in prayer. Doctrine: Prayer and filial trust. Practical Application: Transformation in Christ. To view...
View ArticleWealth and economic activity – The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Work is the source of a decent life or even riches, although neither is the basis of happiness: That belongs to God. With God, with being “rich in what matters to God” as Our Lord will say, both...
View ArticleThe virtue of faith in ordinary life – Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Be alert: “Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.” Central Idea: God will do what he has promised. Doctrine: The theological virtue of faith. Practical Application:...
View ArticleThe fourth commandment – Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Ludwig Meidner, “Jeremiah the prophet in the pit” (1935) charcoal. Central Idea: People often reject those who serve God. Doctrine and Practical Application: The fourth commandment and an examination...
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