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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
Breaking open the Word of God …Applying it to the lived experiences of daily lifeIn the busyness of modern life, it is sometimes difficult to see and experience God in our lives. Through his homilies, Fr. Brendan challenges and invites us to take a break focus on what the Lord is saying. God is not only present but is opening up the divine story in each of us.
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for The Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ - We Become What We Receive
The feast day we celebrate today is the solemnity of the Body and the Blood of Christ and we celebrate this at every Sunday Mass weekly. We believe that the…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity - Fifteen Minutes to Connect
“OK, do I have the energy for fifteen minutes of attention? Now” Think about how absurd that question is. Do I have fifteen minutes of energy to pay attention…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Feast of Pentecost - Voice of the Stranger Among Us
Today we celebrate the gift of this Holy Spirit in all of our lives. Let's not be afraid to invite that Holy Spirit into our hearts and to set our hearts on…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Mass of Thanksgiving for Bishop Emeritus Patrick J. McGrath - I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life
Bishop P.J., I say to you today If you remember nothing else from us today, you are loved by God in all your weirdness and wonderfulness. Yes, you are loved…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Ascension of the Lord - Hold Onto Love
Today, as we come to the table to celebrate and hold onto love, we do so, so that we can be the messengers to others; so that we can give that love to others…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter - Where We Do Not Find Love, Put Love
Love one another, yes by all means. Especially today, love your mothers but beyond that, we are called to love those who have no one to love; to witness to the…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter - Make Room in Our Hearts
In today's Gospel, we find a sense of hospitality, that Jesus is talking about with God, his Father’s house. Jesus says there are many dwelling places in my…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter - Voice Recognition not Speech Recognition
Today's gospel tells us that the Good Shepherd is the voice we are called to listen to because he will bring us to all truth; all goodness; and all beauty. We…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Third Sunday of Easter - Walking And Listening to Others - April 23, 2023
There are people in our lives who have lost faith with God. They have lost a relationship with God. They are angry and frustrated like the disciples on the way…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Easter Sunday of Divine Mercy - Gift of Peace in Grief
In today’s gospel, understand what is happening; the disciples turned away from Christ. This was their friend and they had walked with him. They had spent…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Easter Vigil on the Holy Night of Easter- Love Conquers Death
What are we to do tonight? We are to testify to that love. We believe in Jesus Christ. We believe love wins over death; and so, we testify by us loving others…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Easter Sunday The Resurrection of the Lord - Live the Resurrection in Our Crucified Moments
We are called to live the Resurrection in our crucified moments. Think of every single moment of weakness and brokenness in our own lives whether it is for…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Good Friday - Touch the Unwounded Parts of Soul
Often, we try as ministers and people to help one another but often, often we touch each other’s wounds. In fact, in family life, I don’t know what it is about…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper - Get Down to Look UP
Tonight, we come to change the angle through which we see. And to do that, we have to get down and look up, and stop looking down. Get down and look up. That…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion - Enter into the Silence of Holy Week
This week as we enter into this holiest of weeks, we are called to enter into this week in silence and to take in all the cursing and hatred in the world; all…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent - Show Up!
What can we do to live today's gospel? We can show up. We can show up when somebody is suffering whether it be physical or emotional or mental; or whether they…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent - Darkness Can Be Our Friend
What helps us keep the faith? I hope that coming here is one part of it. But it must be more than just coming here. It must be more than receiving Jesus. It…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Third Sunday of Lent - I Still Haven't Found What I am Looking For
The question is we ask ourselves in this Lenten time, "What am I searching for? How am I spending my time?" Often times, we go into an auto-pilot mode. then we…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Lent - Half-Way There
My friends, as we come to the Eucharist, this high point of our moment together, in our mountain-top experience, we must cooperate with the Lord and his grace…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodDivine Memory Dividends - Homily for The First Friday in Lent
Every year the Church offers us these 40 days of Lent. It is a time of metanoia, a time of renewal, a time of reflection, a time to do justice and time of…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the First Sunday of Lent - Do Not Believe the Lies
Today, when we come to the table, we are smashing the lies; we are not going to believe them; and we are going to hear what the Lord says, “You are my precious…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Ash Wednesday - Collective Time-Out
Lent is not a time-out for individuals. It’s a collective time-out that we willingly take, knowing that we need to pause. We need to pause and look at our…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time - Master Kintsugi
Every one of us has weakness and brokenness in some way, shape or form. Some of them are very small and some are very large. Sometimes we have done these…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Get Out of Autopilot
We retain free will at all times; that we respond, if you would, by free choice to whatever happens to us. Now we do not always get to choose what happens to…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Salt of the Earth
We hear in the first reading about how the light comes into the world when we do actions of goodness; feed the hungry; shelter the unhoused. You see the Lord…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Change Places
We are meant to do something different. We are meant to change our mind, our heart. And that is what this liturgy every Sunday is always about; it is to…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time - Metanoia Moments: Existential Experiences
How will you open yourself to the conversion experience?Will you wait for a new pain or suffering to come; some new wound to open you up? Or will you allow the…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time - Aspen Roots: Our Roots are Christ
We are called to witness to our faith; that we believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. We testify by what and how we do the work that we do. We are called to…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Epiphany of the Lord - Our Guiding Star
What is our work today as we come to this table to be refreshed and strengthened? It is to be a little bit keener to see and to understand what God is…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
As we celebrate this great feast of Mary, can we in a practical way acknowledge our mothers in our life; the love that has sustained us over the many years…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Nativity of the Lord - Make Room in Your Heart
Can we make room for someone in our lives on this Christmas? Is there an uncle, aunt, grandparent that you can reach out to today and call? And tell them how…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent - Listening to God
We hear over and over again in the Gospels, how many disciples and religious people, especially, the Pharisees, the Sadducees and religious leaders block God…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Third Sunday of Advent - Waiting Patiently
We all have false expectations, which is why we get frustrated with one another whether it be with our spouse over doing this or doing that; or whether it be…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Advent - Icon of Christ
The whole purpose of Advent is to pause and reflect asking “Is the pattern of my life in fact as a disciple or have I moved into the periphery and no longer…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the First Sunday of Advent - Hope that Inspires
Hope is a metaphor for light. St. Paul says the hope is the light of the world; we are called to be this hope. We are called to be the light in the middle of…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for The Feast of Christ the King - Christ, King of KIndness
Today, we must resist the innate urge for power; for insisting on strength that wins. We must resist the urge that says more is better; that stronger is…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirty Third Sunday of Ordinary - Natural Irrigated Vines Seek Deeper Soil
Today allow the stresses of our environment to force us to go deeper into the soil of our lives, may we do that through prayer and good works that start here…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirty Second Sunday of Ordinary - The Beautiful, The Holy and The True
Sometimes, we seek to be right in these arguments or discussions and instead what we need to do is to seek what is beautiful; what is true; and what is holy…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Thank You, God!
Let us not be one of the nine lepers who were cleansed and did not go back to say thank you. And let’s not be too hard on these other nine because we are…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirty First Sunday of Ordinary Time - Take Jesus Home
Today, let’s not just settle to see Jesus today; let’s receive him and take Jesus home. That’s our role today. And let’s be Jesus to others: Kind, gentle…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time - Increase Our Faith
We can make discipleship so complicated. And it doesn’t need to be. It is doing the simple, little things well. Mother Theresa would have said this “God…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Listen to God in the Silence
It is not because of merit that we are here. It is because of grace. It is a joy to be able to come; to be able to be here. Not out of merit but out of grace…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Take Out a Garment or Two
Ron Rolheiser, the great Catholic theologian and priest says our lives are a bit like packing a suitcase; we have it full with every possibility of our lives…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Open Our Eyes And See
In today’s reading, this is the only parable where Jesus gives a name, Lazarus, the poor man. That should not be lost on us. I don’t know what the Pharisees…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Surplus or Mammon to Others
That is the creativity that Jesus is looking for creativity and ingenuity. We, who have so much, need to be more creative. We need to look at ways of how we…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Lost But Now is Found
When we come to our senses like the lost son and when we do make our way back, he showers us with his mercy, grace, and blessings; showering us like his only…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Third Sunday of Ordinary Time - All In: East, Drink and Live Jesus
Discipleship is not a Sunday thing. It is an every-day thing. We are not called to be fans of Jesus. We are called to be followers of Jesus and that is an…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time - Humble Honeybees
Today, we might be grateful for all the behind the scenes workers and we might be grateful to our parents; we might be grateful to our teachers. All these…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty First Sunday of Ordinary Time - School of Humility
Some people are wine snobs. And this little story illustrates it. A group of supposed wine connoisseurs were wine tasting along with another person who was…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Great Cloud of Witnesses
Every single one of us is going to get a different challenge. Whatever darkness comes into our life this week, or whatever darkness we hear, we are going to…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodWith Great Power Comes Great Responsibility- Homily for the Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
In my experience, the most generous people I know are those who are most often the poorest. they have so little and yet are so generous with what little they…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for The Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Pilgrims Not Tourists
Jesus sends out his disciples not as tourists. He sends them out as missionary disciples; he sends them out as travelers. That is the closest understanding we…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Gospels Our Map Jesus is our Way
Clearly, our destination is eternal life; and clearly the Way that Jesus introduces is a simple way. It is the way of love. He constantly challenges those who…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for The Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ
Memory is a powerful faculty of the mind. Memory was considered in the ancient times as one of the four faculties of the human body that was considered…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity - Social Institutional System: Compassion
There is so much ink spilled on trying to explain the doctrine of the Trinity and it is unfortunate because I think explaining it is less important than…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily Pentecost Sunday - The Church Can Fly!
It is not us as human beings that keep the church afloat. It is the Holy Spirit that keeps it alive and flying through the centuries. We have to be humble…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily Ascension Sunday - LORRAX
When we are beginning something new, we are also letting go of something old. Right? We have grown and hopefully become a better version of ourselves. But now…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter - Peace I Give
It is so important not to name the persons by their illness but rather that they have an illness. They are more than their illness; they are to be treated as…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter - Road To Heaven Is Wide
We are called to return love for hate; to include the excluded; and to always admit when we are wrong. The road to heaven is very wide and it is wide enough…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the 4th Sunday of Easter - Attune Your Hearing
We need nourishment from this table every week. We need to see each other and be strengthened with others that are on the same journey, the same path, of…