Homily For The Twenty-First Sunday Of Ordinary Time - To Whom Should We Go? Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts That Break Open The Word Of God podcast

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We are called to take the living waters, take the bread of life that we receive from here, and to share it with those who so desperately need that fresh living water. You and I might be the only person this week who offers it to them. If you get an inkling to be kind and gentle and not judgmental to someone in any of those categories, then this is your moment. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the third Sunday of Lent. This homily was given at the First Scrutiny for our OCIA candidates for this year. Please feel free to share this with others.…

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Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent - Come To Know Christ and Love HIm 8:46

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“Who do people say that I am?” The apostles first say, you are Elijah or John the Baptist, or one of the other prophets. But then he asks them, he says, “Who do you say that I am?” And Peter, the one who confesses says, “You are the son of the living God. You are the Messiah.” Jesus must say, yes, finally he gets it. He must be delighted after all these three years. So he takes him up a mountain with his two closest apostles, James and John, and reveals himself to them. He assures them that he is the son of God. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Second Sunday of Lent. Our own Lenten journey has begun and our Parish Lenten Retreat is now available for replay on Livestream (watch videos).…

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Homily for the First Sunday of Lent - Who We Are Is the Core of Our Identity 10:33

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How we refocus ourselves this Lent is not about our will. It is not us trying to will ourselves back and pushing away the devil in some dramatic fashion. Just come back to who we are. Come back to the fact that we are children of God and that God is our father. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the First Sunday of Lent. Our own Lenten journey has begun. I hope you can join us this year. Please feel free to share with others.…

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Homily for Ash Wednesday - I am a Sinner. I am a Hypocrite 7:58

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What we do today is put ashes on our forehead. Not to have a badge of honor that says, “Look at me. I am one of the Catholic ones.” We put ashes on our forehead to remind us to say, “I am a sinner. I am a hypocrite.”But we do not stay there. We do this at the beginning of this Lenten journey. Then the rest of this Lenten journey, we focus on turning back to the Lord, (Read more…) Here is my homily for Ash Wednesday. Our own Lenten jpurney has begun. I hope you can join us this year. Please feel free to share with others.…

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Homily for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time - Love your Enemies 7:22

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Jesus reorders life. He quotes the golden rule. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” That was in the Book of Deuteronomy as one of the laws of the Lord. But he takes it a step further. He deepens it and calls his disciples, the ones who call themselves Christian, to have a higher standard, a deeper reality. He says it is not enough, to love just your family. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time. Please feel free to share with others.…

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Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Guardians of Beauty and Prophets of Truth 7:39

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Pope Francis has declared 2025 a Jubilee Year of Hope, a timely reminder that even in the face of immense suffering in our world, we are not abandoned, Jesus always accompanies us and most especially in our times of suffering. The cross stands at the center of our faith, not as a symbol of defeat, but as a sign of ultimate hope. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time. I apologize for the lateness of this which I delivered while on a pilgrimage to Rome. I hope you can still enjoy it and please feel free to share with others.…

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Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Limitation to Invitation to Abundance 12:35

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You can hear a sense of frustration in today’s gospel with Peter. Peter has been working hard all night with his friends, he says they were up all night and caught absolutely nothing. Then here comes Jesus. Remember, Jesus is a carpenter and he is telling the fishermen what to do. You can see how outrageous this sounds. So you can imagine what Peter is feeling, “Like really ? Put out again? Really! I have been working hard and I know my job. I know this Sea of Galilee pretty well and I have been doing this fishing thing a while.” (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time. This weekend we launche the Annual diocesan Appeal as well a Baptism. Please feel free to share with others.…

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Homily for the Presentation of the Lord - The Marian and Christian Way 9:35

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Mary watched her son suffer greatly. This prediction by the prophet Simeon is very real. The climax of that suffering for her was at the foot of the cross. We have to examine this because it is very important how Mary suffered. It was not just that she suffered but how she suffered and gave witness to us. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Presentation of the Lord. I am sorry this is later than usual as I was away giving a retreat at Sts. Peter and Paul in Rocklin, CA on From Here to Eternity: How to Live and Die Well. Please feel free to share with others.…

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Homily for the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time - Dialogue With Scripture 12:18

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Jesus is the fulfillment of the scripture. Jesus is the bright light that leads us to see all other lights. He is the one who enables us to see what God is fulfilling in our lives. So Jesus, in a sense, God becomes our north star, if you would, that we look to seek in this sky of lights. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Third Sunday of Ordinary time. Please feel free to share with others.…

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Homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time - Abundant Joy In Life 8:39

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In today's Gospel, Jesus turns everything around. He takes six stone jars fills them with water and turns that water into wine. These jars would have held 20 to 30 gallons each. Just to give you an understanding of how much wine we are talking about. He produced 600 to 800 bottles of wine! That is a lot of joy! (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary time. Please feel free to share with others.…

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Homily for the Baptism of the Lord - In You I Take Delight 8:19

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We need to hear this message of delight because we hear all the other messages, all the other negative messages, the competitive ones on online, how good everyone else is and not how good we are. Let’s combat it with a message of love. Let’s say to one another “You are my beloved one, with whom I am well pleased, with whom I am delighted.” (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Baptism of the Lord. Please feel free to share with others. Happy 2025 to all of you!…

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Homily for the Epiphany of the Lord - Change Your Perspective 11:20

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There are layers of irony here that Matthew is trying to communicate to his Jewish audience, kind of waking them up. “Hey, hello. It is the Messiah. The Messiah was born. You need to go to Jerusalem. You need to leave Jerusalem and go to Bethlehem.” But they missed the point. Why did they miss the point? It is because they are so rooted in their own belief, their own perspective. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Epiphany of the Lord. Please feel free to share with others. Happy 2025 to all of you!…

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Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family - Wisdom and Joy: Hold Onto Love 12:43

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With the passing of time we certainly grow in age, but we do not always necessarily grow in wisdom. There are no guarantees that wisdom comes with age! It is one of those things that is an opportunity for us, but we have to apply the lessons that happen in our life in order for us to gain the wisdom from those moments. (Read more…) Here is my homily for the Feast of the Holy Family. Please feel free to share with others. I hope you are enjoying this time with family and friends!…

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Homily for the Nativity of the Lord - Make Room in Your Heart for The Story of Jesus 9:47

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Today , we stop and we share what we believe is the greatest story ever told. The story of Jesus Christ being born among us. And right from the very beginning, there is a twist. And the twist is that God, the Author of life, the author of the Book of Life, enters into the story himself. He becomes one of the twists. (Read More) Here is my homily for the Nativity of The Lord. Please feel free to share with others. Merry Christmas to you and yours!…

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Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent - Hear the Voice of the Father and Believe What we Hear 6:36

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