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

Our discipleship is not just about coming to Church; it is about being Church. It is about being the family of God. And when we are family, we make decisions as a family and we stand with each other through thick and through thin.

We are called to choose unity, goodness and truth over division, evil and lies. And that each one of us has to choose that for ourselves and we have to find inside of ourselves to say, “There is enough, there is more than enough for me and for everyone else.”

We tend to become like those we listen to. It makes sense, right? Those to whom we listen and whom we spend time with and the more time we spend with them, the more we will become like them. It is true for all of us.

We all know that we need community.  The Church, the Body of Christ that we claim to be 
 is a unique community, a community of true belonging  that says that Christ is at the center in the One Lord;  in the One Table; in the One Jesus Christ.

When COVID first broke and we were ordered into our first shelter-in-place, one of the requirements was to stay home and to not hike in any park that was more than five minutes away from your house. Up until that point, I had been hiking regularly in a park called “Sierra Azul,” a twelve minute drive from my house. So I had to find another place to hike. 

Remember the famous line from Shakespeare’s play? Indeed a lot is in a name. Right? We are proud of our names. We know our names. We even sometimes know the history of our names.