OCTOBER
October 5, 2025 | Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Questions to Ponder:
• How do we integrate negative life experiences with the plan of divine providence?
• What experiences in our lives tend to “harden” our hearts?
• Do we often recall the “gift of God” that is our ordination?
October 12, 2025 | Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Questions to Ponder:
• What impact does our physical health have on our spiritual life?
• How does the faith of others, especially non-Christians, reveal God to us?
• How can we cultivate a greater sense of gratitude?
October 19, 2025 | Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Questions to Ponder:
• How do we experience the Lord “beside us”?
• How can our parishes offer support to the widowed?
• How attentive are we to preaching, “whether it is convenient or inconvenient”?
October 26, 2025 | Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Questions to Ponder:
• How can our parishes better “hear the cry of the poor” and respond supportively?
• In what ways can we liken and appreciate our pastoral ministry as a votive offering?
• How humbly do we “position” ourselves in worship?
NOVEMBER
November 2, 2025 | The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day)
Questions to Ponder:
• How do I understand my own mortality?
• Is my ministry and preaching full of hope?
• Where have I found the Lord in “restful waters”?
November 9, 2025 | The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Questions to Ponder:
• How do I reach all those in my parish boundaries with God’s love?
• Does my preaching reflect the building up of my people?
• Do I sense an ongoing mission of interior building for myself and others?
November 16, 2025 | Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Questions to Ponder:
• Do I have enough patience for charity?
• Who are the people I look to as models of virtue?
• What does it look like for me to be prepared to meet the Lord?
November 23, 2025 | The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Questions to Ponder:
• How do I hold my use of power in check for the sake of the people?
• Can I take time throughout the week to surrender to the Lord what is rightly his?
• How do I model servant leadership when it comes to preaching?
November 30, 2025 | First Sunday of Advent
Questions to Ponder:
• How is this First Sunday of Advent different from last year?
• What do I want my parish to look like by Christmas Day?
• What personal resolutions do I anticipate this New (Church) Year?
DECEMBER
December 7, 2025 | Second Sunday of Advent
Questions to Ponder:
• What new images of paradise could inspire faith today?
• Where can “thinking in harmony” become a principle of parish life?
• How do we effectively preach the need for repentance?
December 8, 2025 | The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Questions to Ponder:
• Where do we see instances or the effect of “enmity” in parish life today?
• Where do we see evidence of “wondrous deeds” done by the Lord today?
• How can we better promote Marian devotion?
December 14, 2025 | Third Sunday of Advent
• What signs in contemporary life suggest, “Here is your God”?
• Who are modern “examples of hardship and patience” that can inspire people?
• Where does our culture mistakenly “look for another” Messiah?
December 21, 2025 | Fourth Sunday of Advent
• How do we “weary” God or others?
• In what ways do we experience the “grace of apostleship” in our ministries?
• How can we communicate “grace and peace” to others in a digital world?
December 25, 2025 | The Nativity of the Lord
• As preachers, do we see ourselves as “sentinels” raising a cry for joy?
• In an age of artificial intelligence, how do we ensure that the “true light” comes into the world?
• In what ways can we help to overcome indifference to religion?
December 28, 2025 | The Nativity of the Lord
• How can we and our parishes contribute to a more “considerate” society?
• In what ways can priestly fraternity become a “bond of perfection”?
• How do we foster “small-town” faith in a worldwide Church?
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