Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church: Catholic Sunday Homilies

When the kingdom of God stands face-to-face to the kingdoms of this world, there is a conflict, there is a battle. If we stand with Him, He fights the battle on our behalf. His victory will be ours. Let’s learn how to make our prayer His prayer, through a practice called apostolic intercessory prayer. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Jesus speaks of the end times both as something that has already come, and something yet to come. We are in the end times. They began 2,000 years ago at Jesus’s first coming, and will continue until his second coming. This is a time that the Holy Spirit is given to us to bring us back to God to help us to turn from sin which we could not do on our own. It’s a great blessing and mercy that God has given us. Let us open our hearts to the Holy Spirit in Sacrament,  and Prayer, and allow it to be our strength and salvation. But also because the Lord chose to save us in this slow manner, so that more may be saved, it does require us to persevere through suffering and difficulty to help Jesus save more people. 

The widow in the Gospel gave all she had, but in the world’s eyes it was a small amount. We too are called to do Give God our all in  whatever “Little Portion” of His Kingdom God gives us. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Christ is the only one who can articulate the law, and fulfill it. He becomes the perfect fulfillment of the love of God and the love of  neighbor, by his sacrifice as God’s Only Son on the cross.  He makes visible God’s love for us, and shares with us the Holy Spirit. We can join ourselves to him to make our imperfect sacrifice acceptable to God, and by his strength to love one another. We can help that happen by a short prayer done every morning and every evening. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Testimonies and prayers, that we may travel the journey of Bartimaeus from sitting on the side of the road as a poor spiritual beggar to encountering Jesus and changing the direction of our life.

What does it mean that Christ gave his life as a ransom for all? How does Christ save us? What does he save us from? How do we accept that salvation? It is by drinking from the cup He drank from and being baptized with the baptism in which he was baptized so that we may be one with Him, the Servant of all.

Even the most blessed person, with everything that the world longs for, still does not have enough for what we truly long for; eternal life with God. Only by surrendering to Jesus can we receive eternal life. We are saved not by our power, only by His. Jesus gazes at us in love and invites us to leave everything to follow Him to that life.  How will you respond?