Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

We Drink from the Cup of Christ, and Share in His Baptism for Our Salvation (Mk 10:35-45)

What does it mean that Christ gave his life as a ransom for all? How does Christ save us? What does he save us from? How do we accept that salvation? It is by drinking from the cup He drank from and being baptized with the baptism in which he was baptized so that we may be one with Him, the Servant of all.

The Loving Gaze of Our Savior Invites Us to Salvation (Mk 10:17-30)

Even the most blessed person, with everything that the world longs for, still does not have enough for what we truly long for; eternal life with God. Only by surrendering to Jesus can we receive eternal life. We are saved not by our power, only by His. Jesus gazes at us in love and invites us to leave everything to follow Him to that life.  How will you respond?

Marriage: God’s Plan to Bring Us to Himself (Mk 10:2-16)

God created marriage as a pattern of His marriage to us. The purpose of marriage is to lead us to Him, and to live in Him, to become one with Him and in so doing we become one with one another. The life Christ calls us to is difficult and messy, but He wants us to reach out to Him for the grace to do it, and even if we fail to still come to Him out Truest Spouse. 

Domingo XXIX (Mk 10:2-16)

Homilia del Padre Carlos. 

Sin Is Serious: God Forgives and Heals But Our Actions Still Matter (Mk 9:38-48)

Jesus uses very strong language, to warn us of the necessity to avoid sin, and to do good in his name. There is no sin I can’t be forgiven, and no wounds that can’t be healed, but Jesus still wants us to do all we can to avoid evil and do good, and he has given us His Spirit to help. 

Working as Servants of All and to Include All (Mk 9:30-37)

Jesus teaches that to be great is to be the servant of all, by working for the common good through justice. This allows us all to be great together.  Jesus, further uses example of welcoming a child to teach us that we must seek to welcome all people, especially the least, into the human community which is God’s family. 

Domingo XXV Tiempo Ordinario (Mk 9:30-37)

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

The Way of Jesus is the Cross: Let’s Not Make Politics Our Religion (Mk 8:27-35)

Today’s times in many ways are no different than the times of Jesus when he was tempted to use worldly powers, leaders, politics, and armies to bring about the kingdom of God. But these are just ways to avoid the cross, the longer and more difficult way of humility, sacrificing and Love. This is the way that Jesus chose to promote the kingdom, and he asks us to pick up our cross and follow him. 

Domingo XXIV (Mk 8:27-35)

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Traditions and Hypocrisy! Our Hearts Are Still a Work in Progress (Mk 7:1-8,14-15,21-23)

Christians are often criticized for hypocrisy, and Catholic Christians are often criticized for their human traditions. But law and traditions have an important role to help us shape our heart and to help guide us when are hearts are still a work in progress.  But only Jesus who joined us in our humanity, so that we may join him in his divinity, purifies our hearts through the Holy Spirit, His presence in us. His transformation of our hearts is a lifelong task,  nourished by the  Sacred Tradition He has given us in the Eucharist.