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

A lot of us are hard on ourselves. We set expectations that are way too high and we get down on ourselves. It is very hard if we are down on ourselves to not be down on others and it starts to snowball and roll downhill. We start to change this by accepting God's love for us, accepting that love for ourselves, then loving others and loving Jesus. (Read more…)

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

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When we have a certain sense of humility before God, then we do not get into the sort of the political or religious arguments that the Herodians or Pharisees do in today's Gospel. Because we recognize that God is in charge of all of us and what we are called to do is to love one another. (Read more…)

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

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When we receive here today at this Eucharist, it is not just an optional extra to go out and to do good works. But rather, it is a constituent element of coming here. We are here and if we do not do good works when we leave here, then what sort of scandal does that bring to what we do here? Because then nothing really has happened here. (Read more…)

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

I am currently away on retreat with the priest of the Diocese of San Jose. Please pray for us

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 If we are not producing fruit in our lives, if there is no evidence for the fruit, then we have to add something to it. We need to do something here. That is the Holy Spirit, and that is the nourishment we receive from this table. This is our work. Then we can enjoy the fruits. (Read more…)

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

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Today the one son changed his mind, and he went because it required a conversion, an acknowledgement of his need to check his biases, both convenience bias and cognitive maturity bias. Today, may we also check our biases and come to follow the Lord, even if it is inconvenient and grow a little more mature in our discipleship. (Read more...)

Here is my homily for last weekend. This is an audio only recording as I was away from the Parish and only could record. We should be back to the video homilies next weekend. Please feel free to share with others.

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It is not a transaction, it is not a contract, it is a covenant. That is our discipleship. The commitment to love no matter what. It is really hard to hear when it is like this, but we are on the recipient end of that love. It is magical to hear. It is magical to experience. (Read more...)

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

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There is no sin that separates us from God’s incredible abundant love. God’s mercy and love are important. It is the context for everything else. It is what the saints mastered and understood; it was not about access to God. It was that God gave full access to all of us, that he was kind and merciful to all. All we have to do is accept it. (Read more…)

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

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The question for us this week; you are here, and you have come to listen some way, shape, or form. So let us not harden our hearts. May we listen to the voice of God screaming to us through creation, through each other and through our call to reconciliation. (Read more…)

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

September 3, 2023

We need to understand the lunar spirituality of our lives, the seasons, and then allow our hearts to be transformed. Today, we come to the table to be nourished by the Lord, to be refreshed by the Lord, whether in dark or in bright times of our life, we accept and understand, translate where we are at, and allow ourselves to be aligned to the Lord's will, and to follow more clearly. (Read more…)

Here is my homily for last weekend, the last weekend of Summer. I hope you enjoyed the holiday with family and friends. Please feel free to share with others.

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One of the challenges is that we all have a bias in how we see things. We tend to see the way we want to see. It reminds me of an old scholastic axiom that I recently reread, and it goes like this; “Whatever is received, is received according to the manner of the receiver.” In other words, we see what we want to see or we see what we expect to see. And we can see that it not only exists today, but existed all the way back in the time of Jesus. (Read more…)

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

See you at Mass this weekend.