Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

How to Love your Enemies (Lk 6:27-38) (7 OT)

Jesus presents the Golden rule, why and how to follow it.  "To those who hear".  This is perhaps some of the toughest teaching of Jesus in scripture. How we treat our enemies shows the world if we are Children of our Father in Heaven. 

The Beatitudes Teach us to Look at our World from the Point of View of the Resurrection. (Lk 6:17, 20-26) (6 OT)

If you look at only this world, the Beatitudes make no sense. The critics of religion point this out to us, and will say religion is the opiate of the masses (Karl Marx). But for those who believe in the Resurrection, they not only make sense, but reveal how blessed we truly are. Homily for the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. 

Jesus Proclaims a Year of Jubilee! What is that anyway? (LK 1:1-4; 4:14-21) (3 OT)

Are you looking for a good friend? Jesus wants to be your friend. He goes home to His home church, the Synagogue where he grew up, and reads from scripture. Of all the passages, he choose Isaiah 61 to describe what is His mission. He proclaims a Jubilee Year, at time of new beginning where debts are forgiven and captives set free. Do you feel a need for a new a Jubilee blessing? Then open your heart to the Holy Spirit, listen and PRAY!

Your Builder Shall Marry You; Your God Shall Rejoice in You (Jn 2:1-11) (2 OT)

God marries us in Christ Jesus, the bridegroom of the church. John's gospel uses the image of a marriage to show how God relates to us in the new covenant. But before we can fall in love with God, we must date Him, that is get to know him and spend time with Him. 

Jesus was Baptized so that we may become Children of God. (Lk 3:15-16, 21-22) (1 OT)

Jesus was baptized so that we may share in the divine life he offers us by sharing in our humanity. We receive power to do good, cure the sick, cast out demons. But we also receive the greatest gift, and power, of the Holy Spirit, the Power of God's Love. Although we receive it in the sacraments of Baptism, and Eucharist, we open ourselves to it, and experience it's power sometimes not during the sacrament, but after in prayer. 

The 4th Wise Man shows us our Purpose in Life (MT 2:1-12) (3 CH) (Epiphany)

The story of the 4th Wise Man (Artaban) can show us our common vocation and mission in Life. Our common mission is the first step towards our unique mission, and is the most important part of any vocation: To know and then love God, and to love others. 

We are All Part of a Sacred Family, How you family can be Holier. (Lk 2:41-52) (2 CH)

Our families are sacred because the reflect God's design. Our desire to be holy is itself holiness, but we also must have a plan and practices that help us become more holy. This homily suggests six practices to help your family become more holy.

Christmas Homily - A series of short Stories about God's Love for us! (Jn 1:1-5, 9-14)

Some people think our faith is just an empty box, nothing in it. But our whole world is God's gift to us given out of Love. More, he gave us His Son, to allow us to See His Love. But we don't see the love behind creation, and we rejected the gift of His Son. Even today we focus on the material and don't see the Love of God All around us, in the many miracles, in our families, and the perpetuation of the Incarnation, God still with us, in the Eucharist. But God is a Lover, and He hasn't given up on us. He is still waiting, like a Lover, for us to respond. 

We Must Die Spiritually to Allow Christ to Live Fully in Us. (LK 1:39-45) (4AD)

The fourth Sunday of Advent prepares us to welcome the Light of Christ into our world at Christmas. The spiritual principle of death to self is explained using a lamp lit by an extension cord as a demonstration. In Mass Christ offer's himself as the perfect sacrifice (pouring out of self). We can join ourselves to His sacrifice, thus purifying our offering by Christ's, and further dying to self, so that He lives more, His light shines more brightly, in us. And nothing can distinguish that light of Christ that is in us. 

Generous, Just and Filled with the Holy Spirit. (LK 3:10-18) (3 AD)

John the Baptist Gives a Simple Formula to Solve All the World's Problems: Be Generous, Just and Filled with the Holy Spirit.  For God to fill us with infinite gifts, we must empty ourselves of the material things, and we must not grieve the Holy Spirit by sin. Then, God can give us the Holy Spirit. And it is not only for us, but is meant to be given, so God can again fill us. In this way we become like a faucet, a channel of his Holy Spirit and Love in the world, given through us, for others. This is our greatest Joy!