Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

Bautismo del Senor (Lk 3:15-16,21-22)

Homilia del padre Carlos.

Embrace the Darkness on your Journey (Mt 2:1-12)

God reveals Himself through creation, scripture and tradition, but also by divine intervention, until we come to recognize and adore Jesus as God, offer him our lives, and allow that encounter to change the path of our lives. It is hard finding the light to follow as the Magi did, sometimes it is in the darkest night that we see the stars more clearly. The darkness in our lives can help to focus us on what is most important, the journey to follow God. 

La Epifania Mt(2:1-12)

homilia del padre Carlos.

A Holy Family is Not a Perfect Family: It is Imperfection that brings Holiness (LK 2:41-52)

Holiness is not perfection. Perfection is a fruit of holiness, but holiness is formed in imperfection. God is a family. Jesus was born a person, but also into a family. We are relational, and in relationship we grow. The goal of our families is to be holy, in relationship with others giving of ourselves for the greater good. Each in the family, has a role to play. So does God, if we center our family around Him.

La Sagrada Familia (Lk 2:41-52)

Homilia del Padre Carlos

Although We Try, We Cannot Take Jesus Out of Christmas (Lk 2:1-14)

Often we say Happy Holidays, to leave God out of Christmas. But try as we might, there is no avoiding our God who loves us and has joined himself to us forever in Christmas which means Christ's Mass. Mass is the perpetuation of Christ's Incarnation, life, death and Resurrection, so since we celebrate the Mass everyday, everyday is Christmas. Let us live every day this year as if it were CHRISTMAS!

Navidad (Lk 2:1-14)

Homila del padre Carlos.

The Way God Asks us to Wait: Like Mary (Lk 1:39-45)

The Advent message is to wait for the coming of the Lord.  The readings call us to trust in the promises of God, and that trust frees us to live boldly, doing God's will, sometimes by trial and yes error, and helping to bring about what it is we wait for; the fullness of the Kingdom of God. 

Domingo IV Adviento (Lk 1:39-45)

Homilia del padre Carlos.

A Rather Complete Telling of the Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Lk 1:26-38) (3 AD)

The apparition of Mary to the Aztec people near Mexico City was one of the greatest events of human history. Not only did the event cause from 8 to 10 million conversions to Christianity and shape the history of the Americas, but the Tilma of Juan Diego, with the image of our lady on it, that we still have at the Basilica in Mexico City is scientifically verified to be miraculous thus telling the story for all time of God‘s revelation and intervention in our world. In addition to be in miraculous, the image is most loving presentation of our faith to the Aztec people in their own language. The image contains the proclamation of the faith of the true God Jesus Christ son of Mary Queen of Heaven the One sacrifice acceptable to God for all time.