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

Today, we must resist the innate urge for power; for insisting on strength that wins. We must resist the urge that says more is better; that stronger is better; that we claim kindness is better; less is better; and gentleness and healing is better because Christ is our King.

Here is my homily for the Feast of Christ the King. I hope you enjoy this and please feel free to share it with others. (Read more…)

Today allow the stresses of our environment to force us to go deeper into the soil of our lives, may we do that through prayer and good works that start here at this table. The Bread of Life; the Water of Life that feeds us; that makes our vines grow naturally according to Christ’s law.

Here is my homily for the Thirty Third Sunday of Ordinary Time. I hope you enjoy this and please feel free to share it with others. (Read more…)

Sometimes, we seek to be right in these arguments or discussions and instead what we need to do is to seek what is beautiful; what is true; and what is holy. What does all that mean for us?

Here is my homily for the Thirty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time. For part of this homily, I spoke directly to the children who were dressed up in Saints costumes. I hope you enjoy this and please feel free to share it with others. (Read More…)

Let us not be one of the nine lepers who were cleansed and did not go back to say thank you. And let’s not be too hard on these other nine because we are probably more like the nine than the one most of the time. They did have faith. They asked Jesus to heal them. They believed that they were going to be healed; and in fact they were healed.

This is one more extra homily. It is my homily for the Twenty Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time that I gave during the recent Holy Land Pilgrimage while in Petra. I hope you can enjoy this and please feel free to share it with others. (Read More…)

Today, let’s not just settle to see Jesus today; let’s receive him and take Jesus home. That’s our role today. And let’s be Jesus to others: Kind, gentle, understanding, forgiving. We take Jesus home.

Here is my homily for the Thirty First Sunday of Ordinary Time . I hope you enjoy this and please feel free to share it with others. (Read more…)

 We can make discipleship so complicated. And it doesn’t need to be. It is doing the simple, little things well. Mother Theresa would have said this “God doesn’t expect extraordinary things of us.” What he wants and expects of us is to do the ordinary things and he is the one who will make them extraordinary.

This is an extra homily. It is my homily for the Twenty Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time that I gave during the recent Holy Land Pilgrimage while in Magdela. I hope you can enjoy this and please feel free to share it with others. (Read More…)

It is not because of merit that we are here. It is because of grace. It is a joy to be able to come; to be able to be here. Not out of merit but out of grace and mercy; and from here, we share the joy by being humble, listening to each other’s stories, most of all listening to God in the silence of our heart.

Here is the my homily for the Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Please feel free to share it with others. (Read more…)

Ron Rolheiser, the great Catholic theologian and priest says our lives are a bit like packing a suitcase; we have it full with every possibility of our lives; we have squeezed in everything into the suitcase of our life. But there is no room or very little room for God.

Here is the my homily for the Twenty Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Please feel free to share it with others. (Read more…)

In today’s reading, this is the only parable where Jesus gives a name, Lazarus, the poor man. That should not be lost on us. I don’t know what the Pharisees were like in their time but they seem to have an indifference to the poor; they seem to not recognize their humanity. I suppose we have that in common. I suppose that we have become indifferent to the poor; that we do not even call them by a name.

Here is the my homily for the Twenty Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Please feel free to share it with others. (Read more…)

And a reminder that I am leading a pilgrimage to the Holy Land beginning on September 27. There will be no homilies for the next two weekends. Please keep all the pilgrims in your prayers as they follow in the footsteps of Jesus.