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

Today, I do not want to focus on the fall of humanity. I want to focus on the rise of humanity that will return to being fully human, fully alive, by seeing with new eyes, by hearing with new ears, by tasting and touching and smelling with new vitality so that we want to drink in the whole world and give glory to God. (Read more…)Here is my homily from the Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Please feel free to share with others.

Henry Nouwen, the great theologian and Catholic priest wrote in a book called Open Hands, Open Heart, “Most Catholics, when we come to church on Sunday, in fact, do not have open hands or an open heart. When we come, our hands and our hearts are full of many other things, and they are not open.” He challenged us in a very strong way. He said, “many of us have fists clenched tight, full with many things that keep us from in fact receiving the Lord in fullness.” (Read more…)Here is my homily fr...

A lot of ink has been spilled over the mystery of the Holy Trinity for the past many years. Indeed, actually sadly, even more blood has been spilled over it. Even now, the East and the West Church are still split over a single word called the Filioque. This means that the spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. The gospel today brings us back to the core of the Trinity and t is more about mission than mystery. (Read more…)Here is my homily from The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday. ...

The message is God loves us. The good news is that God loves you completely. The bad news, he loves everyone else completely too. But it is not really bad news. Of course, it is good news all around. The challenge then is, where we are called to be the church in the world where we are called to share this love where we are called to witness this love in the world, where are we called to do it to every corner of the earth. (Read more…)Here is my homily from Ascension Sunday. Please feel f...

God loves us not for what we have or what we do, what we own or what we look like. God loves us for who we are. We know that intellectually, I guess we know that, but we need reminders of it. And in this world, there is so much coming at us that we need reminders often for that purpose. Sometimes there are things in our life that will illustrate the love that God has for us, that breaks it open for us. (Read more…)Here is my homily from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. This was First Communion Sun...

“I looked out upon my window and I saw the leaves and the flowers falling from my beautiful tree outside my window. And I lamented as I saw the barren branches appear, and I lamented the beautiful flowers and leaves I had. And then I noticed, as I looked through the tree with its barren branches, the stunning mountains behind the tree that I had not seen.” (Read more…)Here is my homily from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Please feel free to share with others.Alleluia He is Risen !