Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God

The Jewish people were in the desert for 40 years.

So they lived in tents. Pitching your tent was a common phrase and the idea that Jesus pitched his tent with us was the way that he became vulnerable alongside us as a human being. That he was all in, if you would, with humanity. And then the question we have is why is that so important? Why did God have to become one of us in Jesus Christ? (Read more...)

Here is my homily for the Christmas Day. Please feel free to share with others. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas Season with Family and Friends

Happy Christmas and God bless,

The first reading tonight was dramatic, deliberately dramatic to get our attention to ensure that we are called to be the light of Christ. The ultimate message of Christmas is that we will be judged, not on how well we have lived, but on how well we have loved. This Christmas, let us love well and let us let our light shine for all to see. (Read more...)

Here is my homily for the Christmas Eve. Please feel free to share with others. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas Season with Family and Friends

Happy Christmas and God bless!

Awe is an under spoken response to life because we know that which is beautiful but it is often a projection of what we want, what we desire, what we like. But awe is something we do not expect. For example, when we even just think about the idea that no two snowflakes are the same, no two snowflakes are the same. Just even thinking about that is awe, because it is so mind blowing. (Read more…)

Here is my homily for the last Sunday of Advent. Please feel free to share with others.

The advent season is all about seeing with eyes of faith, to see deeper and to see and to recognize the Christ who is among us. The temptation is to allow our eyes of our faith to get dirty. They get dirty with busyness and tiredness and the hustle and the bustle of the season. It is very easy just to get carried away with it all and lose the reason for the season. (Read more…)

Here is my homily for last weekend. Please feel free to share with others.

Finally, I encourage you to attend Mass in person for Christmas at all possible. But if for some reason you cannot join us in person, please join us online at either the 9am on Christmas Day or 3pm on Christmas Eve.  

Repentance is the way to the joy of the gospel. Because once we let go of the stuff that is in our way, once we let go of that, which we know we have made mistakes and those who have hurt us, we might have reacted to, then we are set free. Then we can accept the joy of God. (Read more…)

Here is my homily for last weekend. Please feel free to share with others.

If you are looking to deepen your prayer this Advent, perhaps you can spend some time with Fr. Brendan's recent retreat - Rekindle your spirit? You can find the entire series at button below.

                                                               Rekindle Your Spirit

So what are we waiting for? In our rich theology, there are three comings of Christ. The first one is that Christ came once in history as a baby born in time in the year. Then we look forward to Christ's second coming in glory. But then there is this, what theologically we say, the in-between times where we come to recognize the Christ who is already among us, within you and I. This is where our focus is, as we straddle these two. (Read more…)

Here is my homily for last weekend. Please feel free to share with others.

We show the face of Christ not only to each other, but to the whole world around us. That is what we are called to do. That is who we are as the body of Christ. We are the image of Christ We become what we receive, the body of Christ to others. (Read more…)

Here is my homily for last weekend. Please feel free to share with others.

This is your opportunity to be part of God's mission, to be reckless with your love without abandon and to not worry about the logic of math, to just shower your love on them without regard.does with us. The way to inspire us to do that is to be in a little bit of awe, the fear of the Lord, of how blessed we are, what we have now, and understand how blessed we are with what we already have. (Read more…)

Here is my homily for last weekend. Please feel free to share with others.

Finally, I want to close with a THANK YOU and THANK GOD for the gift of life, community, and faith. Please pray for peace in our world and bring that peace into your family Thanksgiving dinner. Use this week to create memory dividends that will pay for years to come and know that connection with family and friends is good for your soul. And if you post online then post good memories with #memorydividends and #goodforyoursoul. See you at Mass next weekend.

None of us ever want to be “ready to go,”but if we live our lives actively following the Lord and believing, then we will be more than ready for the Lord. We are believers, yes, but we are called to be believers and followers, to be the wise virgins who are ready for whatever the day or the hour the Lord calls us. (Read more…)

Here is my homily for last weekend. Please feel free to share with others. See you at Mass next weekend.

The Pharisees and the leaders are on the chair of Moses. Jesus tells the people you can do everything they say, but just do not do what they do because they are not practicing.

That temptation is our temptation, to have this overconfidence that we know exactly what God wants us to do at any one moment, and that we have the corner on the truth especially for others.

And that is dangerous! Jesus basically condemns it. And he says we need to be humble, not only before each other, but before God. And so, what are we to do in our own lives? (Read More…)

Here is my homily for last weekend. Please feel free to share with others.See you at Mass next weekend.