Sermon
Program {1}
First
Sunday of Advent
1. Dogmatic Subject: The Second Coming of Christ. -- They shall see the son of man
coming in a cloud with great power and majesty
(Luke xxi. 27). Pages 80 ff.,
519.
2. Moral Subject: the six Commandments. ---Let
us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
chambering and impurities ( Rom. xiii. 13). Pages 473, 534, 535, 565 ff.
Feast
of the Immaculate Conception
1. Dogmatic
Subject: the Immaculate conception. -- Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with
thee: Blessed Art thou amongst women (Luke i. 28). Page 491.
2. Moral
Subject: The First Part of the Hail
Mary. -- And the Angel being come in, said unto her: Hail full of grace, the
Lord is with thee: Blessed Art thou amongst women (Luke i. 28.) Page 491.
Second
Sunday of Advent
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Our Lord, the Expected
Redeemer and Messiah. -- Art thou he that art to come? (Matt. xi. 3 ) pages 31 F F. , 60, 504 F F.
, 529.
2. Moral
Subject: the virtual fortitude. --What went you out into the desert to see? a reed shaken by the wind? (Matt. xi.
7). Pages 61, 530, 538 F F. , 566, 569,
572-576, 583.
Title Endnote
{1}> This Program embraces a complete course in
Christian doctrine. The subjects are
drawn from the Gospels and Epistles of the Sundays and Feast, and are treated
in the pages of this Catechism as referred to.
For a sermon in outline and further development of each of these
subjects see The Gospels and Epistles of the Sundays and Feast with Outlines
for Sermons, and A Parochial Course of Doctrinal Instructions for All Sundays
and Holydays of the Year ( Jos. F.
Wagner, Inc., New York ).
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Third
Sunday of Advent
1. Dogmatic Subject: Christ the son of God. -There
hath stood one in the midst of you whom you know not. The same is he that shall
come after me, who is preferred before me ( John i. 26, 27 ). Pages 36 ff., 508.
2. Moral Subject:
Sin. -Make straight the way of the Lord ( John i. 23) pages 118,
493, 553-555, 563.
Fourth
Sunday of Advent
1. Dogmatic Subject: Christ is our Lord. –Prepare
ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths ( Luke iii. 4). Pages with 38-40, 499, 517 F F. , 574 F F.
2. Moral Subject: conscience. -I am not
conscious to myself of anything. : yet I am not hereby justified; but he that
judgeth me is the Lord ( 1 Cor. iv. 4).
Pages 358, 530, 553.
Feast
of Christmas
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Conception and Nativity of Christ. - And the Word was made
flesh and dwelt among us (John i. 14). Pages 41 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Virtue of Hope. - Looking
for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great God and our Savior
Jesus Christ ( Titus ii. 13). Pages 481, 495, 510, 537, 556, 569, 573,
579, 580, 586.
Sunday
after Christmas
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Lessons of the Nativity of Christ. -This child is set for the fall,
and for the resurrection of many in Israel (Luke ii. 34). Pages 47 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Vice of Sloth. - Who departed not from the temple, by fastings
and prayers serving night and day
(Luke ii 37 ). Pages 8, 379,
403, 449, 500, 527, 542, 585.
Feast
of the Circumcision
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Hallowed be thy name. - His name was called Jesus, which was
called by the angel, before he was conceived in the womb. (Luke ii. 21).
Pages 499, 513.
2. Moral
Subject: The Second Commandment: Thou shall not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain. - His name was called Jesus, which was called by the angel,
before he was conceived in the womb. (Luke ii. 21). Pages 33-36, 382 ff., 499 ff., 515, 517.
Sunday
after Circumcision
1. Dogmatic Subject: Holy Orders. - Who arose and took the
child and his mother and came into the land of Israel (Matt. ii. 21). - And opening their treasures,
they offered him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh (Matt. ii. 11). Pages 317 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Fourth Commandment: The Duties of Parents to their Children. - And
entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, (Matt. ii.
11). - Who (Joseph) arose, and took the child and his mother,
and came into the land of Israel (Matt ii. 21 ). Pages 418 ff.
First
Sunday after Epiphany
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Communion of Saints. - For
as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same
office; so we being many, are one body in Christ and everyone members one of
another (Rom. xii. 4, 5). Pages 109
ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Fourth Commandment: The
duties of Children to their Parents. - He
went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and was subject to them (Luke
ii. 51). Pages 411 ff.
Second
Sunday after Epiphany
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Sacrament of Matrimony. -.
There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee (John ii. 1). Pages 345
ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Duties of Married People.
- Let love be without dissimulation, hating that which is evil,
cleaving to that which is good. . . .
Being of one mind one toward another (Rom. xii. 9, 16). - There
was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus also was invited, and his
disciples, to the marriage (John ii. 1, 2). Pages 351 ff.
Third
Sunday after Epiphany
1. Dogmatic
subject: Hell. -The children of
the kingdom shall be cast out into exterior darkness; there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth (matt. viii.
12). Pages 62 ff., 85, 86.
2. Moral
Subject: The Virtue of Faith. And Jesus hearing this, marveled; and
said to them that followed him: Amen I say to you, I have not found so great
faith in Israel (Matt. viii. 10).
Pages 11 ff. , 31-33, 77, 108, 109, 181, 195, 232, 368, 384, 481, 495.
Fourth
Sunday after Epiphany
1. Dogmatic
Subject: God, the Almighty
Creator. The winds and the sea obey
Him. (Matt. viii. 27). Pages 203 ff. , 378, 502.
2. Moral Subject: The Commandments of God. He that loveth his neighbor, hath
fulfilled the law. For thou shall not
comment adultery: Thou shall not
kill: Thou shall not steal: Thou shall not bear false witness: Thou shall not covet: and if there be any other Commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself
(Rom. xiii. 8, 9). Pages 6, 357 ff. ,
565 ff.
Fifth
Sunday after Epiphany
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Holiness of the Church. Put
ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy
(Col. iii. 12). The kingdom of
heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field ( Matt. xiii.
24). Pages 104, 106.
2. Moral
Subject: The Eighth Commandment: Evilspeaking against Our Neighbor. Above all things have charity, which is
the bond of perfection; and let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts,
wherein also you are called in one body (Col. iii. 14,15). While men were asleep his enemy came and
oversowed cockle among the wheat, and went his way (Matt. xiii. 25). Pages 454 ff.
Sixth
Sunday after Epiphany
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Catholiccity of the
Church. From you is spread abroad
the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also and every
place, your faith which is toward God, is gone forth (Thess. i. 8). The
kingdom of heaven is likened to a grain of mustard seed which is the least
indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs, and
becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and dwell in the branches
thereof (Matt. xiii. 31, 32). Page
106.
2. Moral
Subject: The Sins Against the First Commandment. You turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God
(1 Thess. i. 9). Pages 368, 369, 374.
Septuagesima
Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Baptism: Its Nature and Institution. - And all in
Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea (1Cor. x. 2). - Go
you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just (Matt.
xx. 4). Pages 161 ff.
2. Moral
subject: The Vice of Gluttony. - Everyone
that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they
indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one
(1 Cor. ix. 25). Pages 437, 439, 509,
534, 535, 540 ff.
Sexagesima
Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Angels and Demons. - There
was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan to buffet me (2 Cor.
xii. 7). - The devil cometh , and taketh the word out of their heart, lest
believing they should be saved (Luke viii. 12). Pages 27, 369-373, 502 ff. , 537, 567 ff. , 582.
2. Moral
Subject: Fastings and Abstinence:
Their Advantages. In hunger and thirst, in fastings often (2 Cor. xi.
27). Pages 500, 545 ff.
Quinquagesima
Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Sufferings of Our
Lord. Then Jesus took unto him the
twelve and said to them: behold we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be
accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the son of man. For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles,
and shall be mocked, and scourged, and spit upon: and after they have scourged
him, they will put him to death; the third day he shall rise again (Luke
xviii. 31,33). Pages 50 ff., 583.
2. Moral
Subject: The Virtue of Charity. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not
perversely:. . . Is not provoked to
anger, thinketh no evil,. . . beareth
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things (1
Cor. xiii. 4-8). Pages 368, 482, 489,
496, 509.
First
Sunday of Lent
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Holy Eucharist. And when he had fasted forty days and
forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. . . .
And behold angels came and ministered to him (Matt. iv. 2, 11). Pages 213 ff., 549.
2. Moral
Subject: The Law of Fasting and
Abstinence. When he had fasted forty
days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry ( Matt. iv. 2). Pages 500, 545 ff.
Second
Sunday of Lent
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Effects of Holy Communion. -
Lord, it is good for us to be here (Matt xvii. 4). Pages 241 ff., 549.
2. Moral
Subject: The Seventh Commandment: What it forbids. - This is the will of
God. . . That no man overreach,
nor circumvent his brother in business; because the Lord is the avenger of all
things (1 Thess. iv. 3, 6). Pages 440 ff.
Third
Sunday of Lent
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass. Christ also hath loved us and
hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour
of sweetness (Eph. v. 2). Pages 254 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Ninth and Tenth
Commandments. But fornication and
all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be so much as be named among you,
as becometh saints. . . . For know ye
this, and understand that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which
is a serving of idols), hath
inheritance in the kindom of Christ and of God (Eph. v. 3, 5). Pages 466
ff.
Forth
Sunday of Lent
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Matter, Form, and Rites of the Holy Eucharist. - Jesus took loaves, and when he had given
thanks, he distributed to them that were sat down (John vi. 11). Pages 219
ff., 252.
2. Moral
Subject: The Obligation of
Receiving Holy Communion. - Jesus
took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were
sat down (John vi. 11). Pages 249
ff., 550
Passion
Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Circumstances of Our
Saviors Passion. - By his own blood
entered once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption (Heb. ix.
12). They took up stones therefore
to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself,
and went out of the temple (John
viii. 59). Pages 56 ff., 552, 558.
2. Moral
Subject: The Eighth Commandment: The Sin of Lying. - And if I shall say
that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar (John viii. 55). Pages 454 ff.
Palm
Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Death of Our Lord. - He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto
death, even to the death of cross. For
which cause God also hath exalted him
(Philip. ii. 8, 9). And Jesus
crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost (Matt. xxvii. 50). Pages
53 ff., 552, 558.
2. Moral
Subject: The Vice of Avarice. - The disciples seeing it, had
indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste? for this might have been
sold for much, and given to the poor. . . .
Then went out one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the
chief priest. And said to them: What
will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him
thirty pieces of silver (Matt. xxvi. 8, 9, 14, 15). Pages 466 ff., 475.
Easter
Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Resurrection of Christ. - He
is risen, he is not here (Mark xvi.
6). Pages 66 ff., 508.
2. Moral
Subject: Spiritual Resurrection. - Let
us Feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (1 Cor. v. 8). Pages 72,
95, 157, 159.
Low
Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Sacrament of Penance. - Receive
ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall
forgive, they are forgiven them; and who sins you shall retain, they are
retained. (John xx. 22, 23). Pages 265 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Contrition. - Whose sins
you shall forgiven, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain,
they are retained (John xx. 22,
23). Pages 273 ff., 493, 554.
Second
Sunday after Easter
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Ecclesiastical Orders and the
Hierarchy of the Church. - You are
now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls (1 Peter ii.
25). I am the good shepherd; I
know mine, and mine know me (John x. 140. Pages 323 ff.
2. More
Subject: Duties of the Faithful to their Pastors. - I am the good shepherd:
I know mine, and mine know me (John
x. 14). Pages 411, 414,415, 488.
Third
Sunday after Easter
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Life Everlasting. - I will see you again, and your heart shall
rejoice, and your joy no man shall take from you (John xvi. 22). Pages 27, 73, 77, 85, 132 ff. , 191, 524, 576.
2. Moral
Subject: The Fifth Commandment: The Sin of Scandal. - Having your conversation good among the
Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may, by the
good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation (1 Peter ii. 12). Pages 420 ff., 517 ff.
Forth
Sunday after Easter
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Apostolicity of the Church. - With whom there is no change, nor
shadow of alteration (James i. 17). - At that time Jesus said to his
disciples: When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth.
(John xvi. 13). Page 107.
2. Moral
Subject: Prayer: Its Nature, Fruits and Parts. - Every
best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father
of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration (James i.
17). Pages 477-486.
Fifth
Sunday after Easter
1. Dogmatic
Subject: God Our Heavenly Father.
- If you ask the Father anything in
my name, he will give it to you. . . .
For the Father himself loveth you (John xvi. 23, 27). Pages 501 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Prayer: Its Conditions and Circumstances. - Amen,
amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father anything in my name, he will give it
to you (John xvi. 23). Pages
493-500.
Feast
of the Ascension
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Ascension of Christ.
- And the Lord Jesus after he had
spoken to them was taking up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God
(Mark xvi. 19). Pages 73 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Holy Ghost: His Internal Mission. - You shall
receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you (Acts i. 8). Pages 92,
94, 95, 523.
Sixth
Sunday after Easter
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Sacrament of Confirmation. -
When the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the
Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me
(John xv. 26) Pages 199 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Fruits of the Holy Ghost.
- When the Paraclete cometh whom I
will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeded from the
Father, he shall give testimony of me (John xv. 26) Page 94.
Pentecost
or Whit Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Holy Ghost and His
Mission in the Church. - They were all filled with the Holy Ghost ( Acts ii.
4 ). - The Holy Ghost will
teach you all things ( John xiv. 26
). Pages 88 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Confirmation: Its Necessity and Ceremonies. - They
were all filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts ii. 4 ). Pages 207 ff., 211 ff.
Trinity
Sunday
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Triune God. - Going
therefore, teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the name of a Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost (Matt. xxviii. 19). Pages 16 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Baptism: Its Ministers, Sponsors and Subjects.
- All power is given to me in heaven
and in earth: Going therefore,
teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost (Matt. xxviii. 18, 19 ). Pages 172 ff.
Second
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Wonders of the
Eucharist. - A certain man made a
great supper and invited many ( Luke xiv. 16 ). Pages 228 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Dispositions for Holy
Communion. - A certain man made a great supper, and invited many. And he sent his servant at the hour of
supper to say to them that were invited, that they should come, for now all
things are ready (Luke xiv. 16, 17). Pages 245 ff.
Third
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Satisfaction. - There shall be joy in heaven upon one
sinner that doth penance ( Luke xv.
7 ). Pages 296 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Virtue of Penance. - There shall be joy before the angels of
God upon one sinner doing penance ( Luke xv. 10 ). Pages 261 ff.
Forth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Infallibility of the
Pope. - Going up into one of the
ships that was Simon's. . . .he taught the multitude ( Luke v. 3 ). Pages 78, 102, 333.
2. Moral
Subject: The Word of God. - The multitude pressed upon him to hear
the word of God ( Luke v. 1 ).
Pages 9, 384, 475, 494, 548.
Fifth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Divine Providence. - The
eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers, but the
countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things ( 1 Peter iii. 12 ). Pages 29, 502 ff. , 522, 523, 540 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Sins Forbidden by the Fifth
Commandment. - Be ye all of one mind, . . .
not rendering evil for evil ( 1 Peter iii. 8, 9 ). - You have
heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill shall be in danger
of the judgment. But I say to you that
whosoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment ( Matt. v. 21, 22 ). Pages 421 ff. , 494, 560, 564.
Sixth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Baptism: It's Effects. -
All we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death. For we are buried together with him by
baptism into death; that as Christ is
risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness
of life ( Rom. vi. 3, 4 ). Pages 182 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Baptism: Its Rites and Ceremonies. - All we, who
are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death. For we are buried together with him by
baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the
Father, so we also may walk in the newness of life ( Rom. vi. 3, 4 ). Pages 192 ff.
Seventh
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Thy Will Be Done. - Not
everyone that saith to me: Lord Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doth the will of my Father
who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ( Matt. vii. 21 ). Pages 529 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Sin of Hypocrisy. - Beware of false prophets, who come to you
in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves; by their
fruits you shall know them ( Matt.
vii. 15, 16 ). Pages 459 ff., 497 ff.
Eighth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Man: A Creature Composed of Body and Soul. - We
are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh (Rom, viii. 12). Give an account of thy stewardship, for now thou canst be
steward no longer (Luke xvi.
2). Pages 29, 48, 120, 487, 521, 522,
529 ff. , 540, 541, 544.
2. Moral
Subject: The Seventh
Commandment: What it Enjoins. - Make
unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity, that when you shall fail, they may
receive you into ever lasting dwellings
(Luke xvi. 9). Pages 447 ff.
Ninth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Mercy and Justice of God.
- When he drew near to Jerusalem, seeing the city, he wept over it,.
. . and entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold
therein, and them that bought (Luke
xix. 41-45). Pages 380, 501, 555, 556;
378 ff. , 394, 406, 416-418, 436, 457.
2. Moral
Subject: Lead Us Not Into Temptation. - Let no temptation take hold on you,
but such as is human: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that which you are able, but will make also with temptation
issue, that you may be able to bear it ( 1 Cor. x. 13 ). Pages 565 ff.
Tenth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Sacraments: Their Meaning and Purpose. - There are
diversities of graces, but the same Spirit; and there are diversities of
ministries, but the same Lord; and there are diversities of operations, but the
same God who worketh all in all (1 Cor. xii. 4, 6 ). Pages 141 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Pride and Humility. - Everyone
that exalteth himself, shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself, shall be
exalted ( Luke xviii. 14 ). Pages
47, 493, 494, 573.
Eleventh
Sunday after Pentecost
1.Dogmatic
Subject: The Sacraments: Their Matter, Form, and Number. - And they bring him one deaf and dumb,
and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him. And taking him from the multitude apart, he
put his fingers into his ears and spitting, he touched his tongue; and looking
up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him Ephpheta, which is, Be thou
opened. And immediately his ears
were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke right ( Mark vii. 32-35 ). Pages 151 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Prayer: Its objects. - They bring to him one deaf and dumb, and
they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him ( Mark vii. 32
). Pages 486-493.
Feast
of the Assumption
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Assumption. - And
I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his
inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of the Saints ( Ecclus.
xxiv. 16 ). - Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away
from her ( Luke x. 42 ). Page 491.
2. Moral
Subject: The Second Part of the Hail Mary. -
Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from
her ( Luke x. 42 ). Page 491.
Twelfth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Author, Ministers and
Effects of the Sacraments. - Such
confidence we have through Christ towards God, . . .who also hath made
us fit ministers of the new testament (2 Cor. iii. 4, 6 ). A
certain Samaritan being on his journey came near him and seeing him, was moved
with compassion. And going up to him,
bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and setting him upon his own
beast, brought him to an inn, and took care of him ( Luke x. 33, 34 ). Pages 154 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Fifth Commandment: The Love of Our Neighbor and of Ourselves. -
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole
soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbor as
thyself ( Luke x. 27 ). Pages
408-411, 425 ff. , 496, 509, 562.
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Minister of the
Sacrament of Penance. - Go, show yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass as they went they were
made clean ( Luke xvii. 14 ).
Pages 290 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Confession. - Go, show
yourselves to the priests ( Luke xvii. 14 ). Pages 281 ff.
Fourteenth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Thy Kingdom Come. - Seek ye, therefore, first the kingdom of
God and his justice ( Matt. vi. 33
). Pages 519 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Give Us this Day our Daily
Bread. - Therefore I say to you, be
not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you
shall put on,. . . For your Father
knoweth that you have need of all these things ( Matt. vi. 25, 32 ). Pages 540 ff.
Fifteenth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Resurrection of the
Body. - What things a man shall sow,
those also shall he reap. For he that
soweth in the flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit shall reap
life everlasting ( Gal. vi. 8 ). - Young
man, I say to thee, arise ( Luke
vii. 14 ). Pages 120 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Fifth Commandment: The Vice of Envy. - Let us not be made desirous of vainglory,
provoking one another, envying one another ( Gal. v. 26 ). Pages 378, 379, 429, 475.
Sixteenth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Ceremonies of the Mass. - I
bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ( Eph. iii. 14 ). Page 259.
2. Moral
Subject: The Third Commandment: Remember thou Keep Holy the Sabbath Day. - And
Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees saying: Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day ( Luke xiv. 3 ). Pages 396 ff.
Seventeenth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Unity of the
Church. - One body and one spirit, as you are called in one hope of your
calling. One Lord, one faith, one
baptism ( Eph. iv. 4, 5 ). Pages 102-104.
2. Moral
Subject: The First
Commandment: The Love of God. - Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first
commandment ( Matt. xxii. 37, 38 ).
Pages 6, 78, 368, 381, 408-411, 483, 506.
Eighteenth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Forgiveness of Sins. - Be
of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee ( Matt. ix. 2 ). Pages 113
ff., 183 ff., 270, 552 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: Grace. - I give thanks to my God always for you,
for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus ( 1 Cor. i. 4). Pages 21, 95, 111, 157, 187, 487, 502 ff. , 520, 523, 529 ff. ,
536, 575, 579, 580.
Nineteenth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Marriage: Its Nature and Qualities. - The kingdom
of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for his son ( Matt. xxii. 2 ). Pages 338 ff.
2. Moral Subject: Marriage and the Laws of the Church. - The
kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for his son ( Matt. xxii. 2 ). Page 353.
Twentieth
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Sacrament of Extreme
Unction. - There was a certain ruler whose son was sick at Capharnaum. He
having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, went to him, and
prayed him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death ( John iv. 46, 47 ). Pages 307 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The Virtue of Prudence. - See,
brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise, but as wise: redeeming the
time, because the days are evil.
Wherefore be not unwise; but understanding what is the will of God ( Eph. v. 15, 16 ). Pages 388, 464, 480, 507, 520, 530, 531,
535, 575.
Twenty-first
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: Purgatory and Suffrages for
the Dead. - And his lord being
angry, delivered him to the torturers until he paid the debt ( Matt. xviii. 34 ). Pages 259, 414, 490, 581.
2. Moral
Subject: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
as We Forgive Them That Trespass Against Us. - So also shall my heavenly
Father do to you, if you forgive not everyone his brother from your hearts ( Matt. xviii. 3, 5 ). Pages 552 ff.
Feast
of All Saints
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Honor and Invocation of
the Saints. - I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all
nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues; standing before the throne, and
in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ( Apoc. vii. 9 ). Pages 371-373, 491, 492, 574.
2. Moral
Subject: The Beatitudes. - Blessed
are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess
the land ( Matt. v. 2 ). Pages 112,
133, 487.
Twenty-second
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Church. - Render
to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's ( Matt. xxii. 21 ). Pages 96 ff., 516, 525.
2. Moral
Subject: The Fourth Commandment: Our Duties to Temporal Authority. - Render
to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's ( Matt. xxii. 21 ). Pages 415, 489.
Twenty-third
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The Resurrection Body.
- Our conversation is in heaven,
from whence also we look for the Saviour, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who will
reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according
to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself ( Philip. iii. 20, 21 ). - Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but
come lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live ( Matt. ix. 18 ). Pages 125 ff.
2. Moral
Subject: The First Commandment: The Worship Due to God. - As he was
speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler came up and adored him ( Matt. ix. 18 ). Pages 366 ff. , 515, 578.
Last
Sunday after Pentecost
1. Dogmatic
Subject: The End of the World and the
General Judgment. - They shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with much power and majesty ( Matt. xxiv. 30 ). Pages 81 ff., 86,
130, 429.
2. Moral
Subject: Deliver Us from Evil. Amen. - We cease not to pray for you,.
. . That you may walk worthily of God,
in all things pleasing ( Col. i. 9, 10 ). - Pray that your flight be not
in the winter, or on the sabbath: for there shall be then great tribulation,
such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall
be ( Matt. xxiv. 20, 21 ). Pages 577 ff.