Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

Hear and Follow the Good Shepherd for Fulness of Life (Jn 10:27-30)

If we reflect on our lives we can notice a difference between doing our will and doing the wheel of another who calls us to places where we would not go on our own. Today's challenge from God is to learn how to hear his voice, and obey it. Only this leads to fullness of joy, purpose, and fruitfulness. 

We Are Sent to Show Others the Mercy God Has Shown Us (Jn 20:19-31)

We gather for mass on the first day of the resurrection, the next Sunday and every Sunday to encounter the risen Lord truly present breathing His resurrected life into us. And as the father sent Jesus to us while we were still unworthy we are called to go and show God's mercy to other others, even those we might think our unworthy. 

Journey from Unbelief to Open to Belief to Encounter (Jn 20:1-18)

Like the early disciples we come to the evidence of the empty tomb and travel from unbelief, to openness to the possibility that Jesus has risen, to belief that He is Risen, and then finally to a life-changing encounter in love. 

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.