Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

It is easy to forget that the Church is as important as Christ. He founded it. He died to give birth to it. It is inseparable from Christ. We need the church and the church needs us. 

Like the Jewish people who were the chosen people now in the church we have become a chosen Nation, a royal priesthood, called to bring God's blessing to all people. This at first might seem like a beautiful message; that all are welcome, but in reality it stretches and challenges all of us to be welcoming and to share what we have with others. That has always been a difficult challenge for humanity. But our trust in God can free us to be generous to others. 

How is your walk with God going? Is it by your strength, or by his? Is your life natural or supernatural? We are called to do great things beyond our own power because he calls us and strengthens us. 

Homilia del Padre Carlos 

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.