Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

We Choose: Slow Death or Eternal Life. (Mk 5:21-43)

Wisdom is to know that life is limited, and before our death each of us has the opportunity to reach out to Jesus to be healed of our terminal illness that is mortality. Eternal life doesn’t begin after death, it begins in this life allowing us to live life to the fullest.

Jesus Can Calm the Storm Or Give Us Calm in the Storm (Mk 4:35-41)

Jesus is God, and can overcome any obstacle and calm the storms of our world and of our lives. But sometimes when we cry out to him, it seems as if he is sleeping or he doesn’t care. But he does care, and he does answer, sometimes not by calming the storm but giving calm during the storm. 

Bring About the Kingdom of God One Heart at a Time (Mk 4:26-34)

Jesus did indeed come to transform the world, but not from the top down, rather from the bottom up, one heart at a time. If we want to make the world a better place, let’s start with our own heart. God wants to make us holy. Holiness is his work, but like the farmer we must cooperate with it and help that growth, by protecting the seed he planted, watering it and fertilizing it with our prayer, especially with scripture, reception of the sacraments, study and service. PS-SSS.

Genesis Still Describes what is Happening Today (Mk 3:15-35)

Jesus affirms the truth of today’s first reading in Genesis and points to the solution to the fall of humanity, and all that divides us from God, one another, and from creation. Jesus has come to unite us around himself as brothers and sisters in the family of God.

This Worship is Established by God from 3,000years Ago: Feast of Corpus Christi (Mk 14: 12-26)

We know the Mass was instituted at the last supper by Jesus, but we don’t often think that God instituted the beginning of our worship over 3,000 years ago during The Exodus. Jesus intentionally drew the parallel showing that he is the true Lamb of God that the lamb of Passover only pre-figured. 

Have You Ever Heard of a God Like Our God! (Mt 28:16-20)

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity is not about theology. It’s about the wonder and awe of who our God is! Our God is a family (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) that we are invited to become part of and be with forever. Let us to respond in love and gratitude and make God once again first in our lives, our Lord and Salvation. 

Christ Ascended to Become Many and form The Church (Mk 16:15-20)

Salvation in Christ does not end with the resurrection. He continues with his ascension and forming The Church and anointing her for mission, until he comes again to complete that mission.  His instruction to us is to wait on the Holy Spirit, for it is only by God’s power that this great mission be accomplished. Let us renew our call to share in that mission and to be guided by the Holy Spirit, because The Church needs us and we need The Church. 

Just a Silly Love Homily (Jn 15:9-17)

The readings today tell us God is love, and Jesus speaks the words “As the Father has loved me, I love you”.  Paul McCartney wrote a song asking does the world really want to hear more love songs.  You might say this homily is just another silly love homily. We hear much about God’s love. So much so that it may not have the impact it is really meant to have. Christians are meant to be people who are in love, and their joy and love is observable and contagious. But love is “More than a feeling”, ultimately it calls us to a decision to totally give ourselves to the other.  It is difficult and cannot be done without God’s power and love living in us through the Holy Spirit. But without God’s “Higher love”, life is just wasted time. Let us surrender to God’s love and let it changed our lives. 

Jesus is the Vine But What is the SAP?

In his analogy Jesus shares with us how he is present in his church, a living organism that is truly his body made present by his divine life in us. What is that divine life? It’s the SAP! The Spirit And Power of God living in us to through the Sacraments And Prayer.  

One Shepherd and One Flock; God’s Loving Plan for All Humanity (Jn 10:11-18)

To say that there is no salvation other than in Jesus Christ can at first sound divisive. But logically and lovingly, it is God‘s plan to unite all people in his self.