Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Jesus warns us that life will bring many trials before it is over. Once we have discovered Christ, we need to go deeper and learn how to grow in union with Him through prayer especially with sacrament and scripture so that we will be strengthened for the trials of this life and be able to stand in God’s presence at the end of Time. 

Homilia del padre Carlos.

How could the God who made this vast universe really know each of us by name and have a relationship with each one of us that depends on how we respond. It is mind-boggling, and awesome, but it is what Jesus promises and what many have experienced. It is the first step of becoming a disciple, that is to have a life-changing encounter with the risen Lord. In this family we continue to lay out the pastoral plan for our parish including the characteristics of a missionary disciple. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

This is the first in a series of homilies introducing our new Parish vision and plan following the New Evangelization. The New Evangelization recognizes that our faith isn’t first about our practices rather it’s first about what God has done for us, and religion is a response to that.  It’s really all about GOLF; God Offers Love First, And then we respond by serving him and following His teachings.  So passing on the faith, or evangelizing, is praying for and inviting someone to experience the miracle of encountering God’s Love, in response that person will then want learn more, and practice more, and follow more, and share more, their faith.  

Homilia del Padre Carlos. 

Christ sits at the right hand of God constantly interceding for His Church. Here on earth we are The Body of Christ and our prayers are still an important part of His work as they are joined with his prayer for the coming of the kingdom. We do indeed work physically, for the good of the world, and that is more understandable to us, but our greatest work is our spiritual work;  that is our prayer for the good of the world. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Gratitude is not a response to what happens, it is how we perceive all that happens. Gratitude is essential element of our Catholic spirituality, every Sunday we gather for Eucharist which means Thanksgiving, we come to worship praise and thank God! Our lives become then living sacrifice in praise and thanksgiving to God.