Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

Abundant and fruitful faith is a beautiful thing that God wants us to desire, God wants us to ask for, and God wants us to have. There's nothing we can do to make it happen, it is God's work in us, but we do things to allow God to work the miracle in us. We can till the soil and shape our lives so that God can unfold divine life in us. 

Homilia del Padre Carlos. 

Humility is required for faith. Faith is a miracle that God works in us. Faith is a way of knowing that is beyond, but does not contradict, the intellect. Intellect alone cannot grasp it, religious submission of will and intellect is required. But the real gift of faith is not only the knowledge that God reveals, it is also the presence of God in which we participate that lifts up our fallen humanity and joins us to the very life of God. 

Homilia del Padre Carlos. 

The secret to fullness of life, the secret to loving more and more purely, the secret to finding happiness and joy, is revealed by Jesus, that is to have the proper order of our loves. We must love God, love neighbor, and help build up the church. Let us take an inventory of our loves to see if they are in proper order. 

Homilia del Padre Carlos. 

We must speak authentically about Jesus. We can do it in ways that are loving and do not alienate others by sharing with them the source of our joy and what God has done for us. Let us make room for God to reveal his love and power in our lives, through prayer sacrament and service, so that we can share it authentically with others. 

Sometimes it seems like God has favorites when we read that God has chosen a particular people Israel for his own to be special and more favored than others. But it's important to remember God wants all people to be his chosen people and the Church is God's chosen people today and it's mission is to make present God's teaching and love to all the nations, and invite everyone to become one of God's chosen people. 

Homilia del Padre Carlos. 

In the Catholic faith the Eucharist is Central. For others who don't share this faith it can sound like Catholics are misled,  because of course to them Christ: His life, death, and resurrection are central. But the Christian faith is not about remembering a person who lived 2,000 years ago. It's about His presence still with us today, allow joining ourselves to be joined to him in body soul and spirit. This is because we are enfleshed spirits, not angels, it's the continued presence of Christ in our humanity that allows us to receive the Holy Spirit.