Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

Domingo V de Cuaresma (Jn 12:20-33)

homilia del padre Carlos

Half of us are Blind: Jesus Can Open Our Eyes (Jn 9:1-41)

The man born blind represents all of us. Jesus wants to heal our sight, so we see others and the world as he does. Each person is an opportunity to make visible God's works and Glory, when we serve them in love and at His command. For God to open our eyes is a miracle, but we must make room for that miracle, by reading and praying scripture, receiving sacraments, praying about the divisions in our world and treating all people as an opportunity to show God's Love. 

Domingo IV Cuaresma (Jn 3:14-21)

Homilia del padre Carlos.

The Woman at the Well has a Story to Tell! (Jn 4:5-42) (3 LT)

The Samaritan woman left her bucket at the well after she met Jesus because she no longer needed it. Although hiding before, she now wants to tell all she knows about Jesus. An encounter with Jesus can be so life changing, that we leave behind the things we once thought were necessary to pursue. Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God. Jesus wants to give us New Life so much richer than the lives we live naturally. If we only ask He will give, because he thirsts for our faith. He is waiting for us to come to the sacraments to ask for living water, for a well of the Holy Spirit that wells up inside of us. He wants to give us a story to tell!

Domingo III Curesma (Jn 2:12-25)

homilia del padre Carlos.

The Glory Promised is after the Sacrifice Made (Mk 9:2-10) (2 LT)

Today's first reading is awful; Abraham is asked to sacrifice His Beloved Son Isaac. Could God really ask such a thing from us? In the end he does not, yet that is what God does for us. In this story we can see God's Love, and the extent to which He went to redeem us. But like Jesus who walked the road of Calvary before us, we too must also walk that road. But that road results in resurrection; and every sacrifice is followed by blessings. During our difficult times, when we see no way God can see us through an impossible situation, he still can; let us trust and hope for every death is followed by a resurrection if we join the sacrifice to Christ. 

Domingo II de la Cuersma (Mk 9:2-10)

Homilia del padre Carlos.

Turning the Desert into a Garden (Mk 1:12-15) (1 LT)

Why does the Spirit drive Jesus into the Desert? To meet us where we are. We are in the desert because through temptations and the fall, we left the Garden of Eden, to find ourselves in the desert fighting the effects of temptation, sin which brings suffering and death. Jesus enters our humanity to bring us back to the promised land the Garden, and through us, our work as gardeners, to make the desert bloom and bring us back to the Garden.  But know that this life is a struggle, but God promised to always be with us, like the rainbow in the storm, so that we may grow closer to Him and through our suffering, storms, be made holy. 

Primer Domingo de Cueresma (Mk 1:12-15)

homilia del padre carlos

Jesus Wishes to Cure Our Leprosy (Mk 1:40-45) (6 OT)

A leper approaches Jesus and says "If you wish you can cure me.."  In one way this is a healing. But it is also showing us what Jesus wishes to heal all of us from; our spiritual disease that is much like leprosy, our sinfulness. Jesus wishes to make us clean. We can approach Jesus as the leper had the courage to do; to experience the touch of God, the power of His infinite Love, and hear the words "I do wish it, be made clean".