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

Over the last few weeks, we have been reading from the Gospel of John and it hammers away at this metaphor of the Good Shepherd. And today’s version is a powerful one about how a good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. That is the image, a good shepherd. But I sometimes wonder if we really internalize that message? Do we really understand what he is trying to say? (Read more…)
Here is my homily from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Please feel free to share with others.
Alleluia He is Risen !

Our faith is all about God as love and how we are called to be love to one another. And we are called to bring that story alive. We gather every Sunday to tell this story but sometimes I fear that we do not really believe the story, I am not sure we are convinced about the story we tell. (Read more…)
Here is my homily from the Third Sunday of Easter. Please feel free to share with others.
Alleluia He is Risen !

We often name the gospel from this Sunday as “Doubting Thomas." One of the things that has always struck me about this particular gospel passage is that Jesus has now risen from the dead, glorious victory over death and he has wounds. Why does he have wounds? Is this what it will be like when we all are raised? We will have all our wounds or broken legs, and our bad hips. We will all have the same old things we had when we were living. (Read more…)
Here is my homily from the Second Sunday of Easter . Please feel free to share with others.
Alleluia He is Risen !

Our role is to witness to love in the world so that others will come to know and experience the joy of eternal life. In the gospel t we get a hint of what the disciples found it hard to do it. Jesus says, “Go to Galilee.” Galilee was not just a physical location, it was much more. It was where they first met Jesus, where they first fell in love with Jesus. (Read more…)
Here is my homily from Easter Sunday. Please feel free to share with others.
I hope you had a blessed Easter - Alleluia He is Risen !

We look upon Jesus on the cross and we take all our suffering wherever we have been, whether we have witnessed it, whether we are currently in the middle of it or when we are indifferent to it. We talk to Christ and accept his invitation of the cross to move beyond the cross. (Read more…)
Here is my homily from Good Friday. Please feel free to share with others.

When we witness something that is powerful, we tend to want to immediately mirror it. Our brains wire immediately to repeat it. If we witness a young person helping an elderly person we will typically say, “Wow, that is really wonderful. ” Our brain is now rewiring to repeat something like that for ourselves within the next twenty four hours. We will attempt to mirror that because we witnessed it. Now, it also happens with bad things. (Read more…)
Here is my homily from Holy Thursday. Please feel free to share with others.