Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

The Best is Yet to Come! (Jn 8:1-11)

God is doing something new, and does not condemn us but wants to re-create us. The woman caught in adultery shows what God has done for all of us. 

We Are to be Ambassadors of Reconciliation to Our Divided World (Lk 15:1-32)

We live in a divided world. Are we going to approach it more like Jesus, or more like the Scribes and Pharisees in the Gospel parable today about the two brothers of The Loving Father. 

Salvation is God's Work Not Ours (Lk 13:1-9)

As in Jesus's day today some people still believe God punishes sinners with illness suffering and death. These are rather the consequences of our sin, that God does allow. However God does not desire that we die in our sin, rather he sends his son to save us from the consequences of sin which is death.  Death becomes a servant of God that reminds us all of our need to repent and accept the salvation one for us by Jesus not our good works. 

God Makes Us Members of His Family Through Jesus (Lk 9:28b-36)

God stands at the center of all time making those who came before Him and those who came after Him members of God's family by uniting us to Himself. 

TThis Life is a Spiritual Battle (Lk 4:1-13)

Life is a spiritual battle, we are being tested. The testing strengthens our faith if we fight the battle not by our strength but by Christ who is our strength and Savior. 

Choose Jesus as Your Guide: He is not only the Model but the Power to become what We See (Lk 6:39-45)

Today we conclude the sermon on the plane where Jesus has set out the higher standard for his disciples and then shares that he is the image into which we are to become if we are to live up to that standard. Although we fall short that should not discourage us, because he also gives us the power to become what we see in him. 

Does Jesus ask Too Much of Us? (Lk 6:27-38)

The New Testament standard is the highest possible standard. In the Old Testament we were given the minimum requirement and failed. In the New Testament Jesus gives us the highest requirement, the ultimate goal for our transformation into children of God. We would still fail,  if not for his help,  for the power of God is offered to us to transforms us into His likeness. 

Is Christianity for this Life or the Next? (Lk 6:17,20-26)

I have always found an unattractive expression of Christianity is to be good in this life to go to heaven in the next. Christianity's power is it helps now bring strength purpose meaning and many other blessings into our life. However, it is true that the promise of life to come also is a tremendous blessing. We are called to live as agents of transformation in this world never fully succeeding but longing for the completion to come after we die. 

Take The Next Step Towards Your Big Catch (Lk 5:1-11)

This passage shows three different ways we can relate to Jesus; He's distant we know of Him but we're not listening to Him, He's in our life and helps us but we're still in control, or we've turned control of our lives over to Him. To allow God to work the biggest miracles in our lives requires that we allow Jesus to be the captain of our ship. 

Jesus Our Redeemer (Lk 2:22-40)

Jesus our Redeemer, our Savior redeemed us from sin, death and the evil one. He takes away the power of death he forgives us of our sins which disarms the devil's capacity to enslave us, and joins us to Himself in God's family making of us an  offering to God. On this feast of the presentation of Jesus we learn that he presents us to God just as Mary presented Him.