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

Christ gave us the model. Wash each other’s feet. A symbol to serve one another. Symbol to love one another and allow others to love you.

Here is the my homily for Holy Thursday. Earlier this week, I tested positive for COVID and am unable to celebrate the Triduum and Easter Sunday this year. I had prepared my homilies for these celebrations and share them with you in this forum. Please feel free to share it with others.

I am self quarantining and only have very mild symptoms. I appreciate all of your prayers for my recovery. (Read More…)

The power of the cross can have many different forms in our life. Maybe this week what we can do is to look in our own lives and see if there is someone in our own life who’s cross we can carry with them and be aware of the privileged moment; or can we allow somebody else to carry our cross if it is too much to bear. The power of the cross is in sharing it.

Here is the my homily for the Sixth Sunday of Lent. Please feel free to share it with others.

The last session of my new retreat called " From Here to Eternity: How to Live and Die Well is tonight, April 12, 2022. The sessions begin at 7:00pm and you can join via the livestream at St. Simon Presents.

Today's Gospel is the story of the women caught in adultery. The lesson for today is about mercy and forgiveness. We need to understand what forgiveness is not: Forgiveness is not condoning the behavior; it is not agreeing that it was okay; and it is certainly not saying that it is okay to continue to do this behavior. Even Jesus says to the woman: “No one has condemned you and neither do I. Now go and sin no more.” We too are called to do the same thing. (Read more…)

Here is the my homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Please feel free to share it with others.

The last session of my new retreat called " From Here to Eternity: How to Live and Die Well is scheduled for April 12, 2022. The sessions begin at 7:00pm and you can join via the livestream at St. Simon Presents.

And since we have a week off, you can review the three previous sessions at this same website.

We always called it the Prodigal Son reading but really, we are better off calling it the Prodigal Father because he does the same thing for both sons. He goes out of the house to greet both sons because both sons need to come to their senses. Both are wrong. (Read More…)

Here is the my homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent. Please feel free to share it with others.

And please join us again this evening March 29 for the third session of a new retreat called " From Here to Eternity: How to Live and Die Well. "The sessions begin at 7:00pm and you can join via the livestream at St. Simon Presents. You can also review previous sessions at this same website. Here are the details:

God tells us through this Transfiguration today that he wants us to listen to his chosen Son. Let us find some stillness somewhere and slow down enough to study the language of God in nature; in the Word of God; most especially in the poor and the broken; the wounded and then above all else within our own hearts.

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

And please join us every Tuesday evening beginning March 15th and ending April 12 (we will not have a session on April 5 due to the Chrism Mass) for a new retreat called " From Here to Eternity: How to Live and Die Well. "The sessions begin at 7:00pm and you can join via the livestream at St. Simon Presents.

There is something called a false dilemma or false dichotomy. It is a rhetorical tool to win an argument. It is not a tool that seeks truth. It puts two apparent opposites as a contrast to force somebody to choose one or the other when the truth lies somewhere in between. It is the false idea of either/or versus both/and. (Read more…)

And please join us again this evening March 22 for the second session of a new retreat called " From Here to Eternity: How to Live and Die Well. "The sessions begin at 7:00pm and you can join via the livestream at St. Simon Presents. You can also review previous sessions at this same website.

The devil is known by many different names in scripture: The evil one; Satan; the ancient serpent or as we will hear later in today’s liturgy, the ancient tempter. The Holy Father, Pope Francis, refers to the devil calls him the Father of All Lies!

Here is the my homily for the First Sunday of Lent and as you will hear in this homily, I am at St. Monica Parish giving a Lenten Parish Mission called Cairns on the Second Mountain of Life. Please join me on this retreat via the livestream at https://stmonica.net/mass.

The mission begins tonight, Monday March 7 and continues through Wednesday, March 9. Each night is from 7 pm - 8:30pm. Please feel free to share it with others. (Read More…)

Lent begins this Wednesday, March 2. I don't know what will work for you but maybe this year try something new for Lent. Try to go deeper into God’s Word and to listen to Christ in your own life. I promise you the growth will come. ( Read More…)

Today may we become what we receive: the Body and Blood of Christ. May we follow Jesus, who tells us how to be in the world; to be kind; to be gentle; to be forgiving; to be loving at all times.If we continue to do that, over and over again, we will create a new neural pathway of the heart. (Read More…)

There is a great deal of difference between optimism and hope. Optimism says “Everything is going to turn out all right. Don’t worry.” Whereas hope or in particular Christian hope says, “No matter how things turn out, God is going to be with you at all times. Don’t worry.” (Read more…)