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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 Third Sunday of Easter - The Sacrament of Jesus - May 1, 2022
You are not only a sign, not only are you a symbol, you are the Sacrament of Jesus that points the way to God’s love in our world. And we promise to be the…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Easter Sunday of Divine Mercy - The Hallway Between Doors-
Today as we celebrate the Divine Mercy Sunday, this Sunday we celebrate the love of God that shines light in the midst of our darkness that dispels the fear…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Easter Sunday The Resurrection of the Lord - The Great Ah-Ha! Love Changes Everything-
Love casts out darkness. Love heals every wound. Love overcomes every kind of evil. Love is victorious. That is the message of Easter. Love has the power to…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Good Friday - God's Silence Can Be Trusted
May we know that God’s silence can be trusted. May we trust his silence and know that he is there in the midst of our suffering. He does not abandon us. He…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper - Only a Service Entrance to Heaven
Christ gave us the model. Wash each other’s feet. A symbol to serve one another. Symbol to love one another and allow others to love you. Here is the my homily…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Sixth Sunday of Lent - Be Like Simon: Carry Someone Else's Cross
The power of the cross can have many different forms in our life. Maybe this week what we can do is to look in our own lives and see if there is someone in our…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent - Let Go and Live in the Moment
Today's Gospel is the story of the women caught in adultery. The lesson for today is about mercy and forgiveness. We need to understand what forgiveness is…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent - Come to Our Senses
We always called it the Prodigal Son reading but really, we are better off calling it the Prodigal Father because he does the same thing for both sons. He goes…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Lent - Look at Jesus; Listen to Jesus
God tells us through this Transfiguration today that he wants us to listen to his chosen Son. Let us find some stillness somewhere and slow down enough to…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Third Sunday of Lent - False Dilemmas
There is something called a false dilemma or false dichotomy. It is a rhetorical tool to win an argument. It is not a tool that seeks truth. It puts two…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the First Sunday of Lent - Father of All Lies
The devil is known by many different names in scripture: The evil one; Satan; the ancient serpent or as we will hear later in today’s liturgy, the ancient…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Good Fruit
Lent begins this Wednesday, March 2. I don't know what will work for you but maybe this year try something new for Lent. Try to go deeper into God’s Word and…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time - Neural Pathways of the Heart
Today may we become what we receive: the Body and Blood of Christ. May we follow Jesus, who tells us how to be in the world; to be kind; to be gentle; to be…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Hope Not Optimism
There is a great deal of difference between optimism and hope. Optimism says “Everything is going to turn out all right. Don’t worry.” Whereas hope or in…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - All Are Valued and Loved by God
This week's Gospel describes how Jesus climbs into Peter's boat and just sits down and says, “Pull out a little bit from shore.” How incredibly intimate that…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Move Closer to the Truth
We are all called to follow Jesus but unless we move in close, we are not really going to be able to fully follow him; because from a distance what Jesus says…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time - The Body of Christ
What can we do as we celebrate Christian Unity Week? We can certainly pray for those who are not part of our own Christian circle but are part of the wider…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time - Love Without Borders
When Mary says to the servers: “Do whatever he tells you.” She is saying that to us. “Do whatever the Lord tells us to do.” Use your gifts for the greater good…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Baptism of the Lord - Divinization Process
Let’s cooperate with God’s grace and become what we receive. Let us become the gentler and the kinder version of ourselves because the Divinization process…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Nativity of the Lord - Humility, Obscurity and Poverty
My mother taught me that the real Christmas message was about the hidden face of Christ in others and that when Christ became one of us, he did not come in the…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the 4th Sunday of Advent - Hold Onto Love
Mary and Elizabeth give us a great example to follow. They hold on. They hold on to faith. They hold on to believing. When they do not understand, they hold…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Third Sunday of Advent - What Should We Do?
Sometimes the beauty of a moment or of something we are looking at or experiencing, forces us to pause and sort of take it in. The beauty is at another level…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Advent - Focus on the Important Things
God is the destination. Jesus is the way. As long as we keep on asking what would Jesus have us do, and keep choosing Jesus then that will keep us on the right…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the First Sunday of Advent - Look and Look Again
Let’s focus on the presence and the grace of God here and now. So be vigilant at all times but to what? To God’s grace. To God’s beauty right here, right now…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe - Stand with Christ and Choose Christ
Today, I am asking us to celebrate, yes we want to celebrate the gift of Christ in our life but we also need to choose Christ day after day: I will choose to…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time - Stay Awake
There is so much to be grateful for; so much to really see God’s presence here and now, not in some future time or generation. But we must be awake and we must…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time - Give From Our Poverty, Our Time
When we think about it, the most precious gift that we have is life itself and the time we have left. Time is our most precious gift because it is all limited…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time - Not Just Worship Jesus, Follow Jesus
We have to ask the question specifically for our own life. Who is the neighbor in my life? Who is the one who is on the furthest extremity of my life? Who do I…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Illness to Wellness; I to We
As we come to the Eucharist, it is not enough that we just come; we have to go from here, converted and changed, and the conversion of the Lord asks us to make…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Suffering and Dying Bring Transformation
The challenge has been that we understand that suffering and dying brings about metamorphosis, brings about change, but often times we always believe that it…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday Ordinary Time - Surrender and Let Go!
We want to be able to pay our dues so that we can get God’s love. We want to feel like we earned it. We want to feel we deserve it. If we do this then God…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Be Like A child - Unmerited Love
Our Catholic teaching says we do not get saved individually; we get saved communally together. And so, we do this together. And what is it that we do together?…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Authentic Transformations
The most powerful transformation takes place when we are suffering. And that is very hard for us to hear but in fact, we know it to be true; not only in our…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Servant of All
The first among you will be the one who is the most humble. The first among you is the one who is the servant of all.”That is very hard for us to hear because…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time - First Responders
First responders go into burning buildings that people run away from; they go into moments of danger and put their lives at risk to save our lives. I think it…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Which Plant do You Water
Think of it as two plants inside our heart. One is the good plant, which produces the good fruit of gentleness, kindness, forgiveness and all that. And then…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twenty First Sunday of Ordinary Time - Reservoir of Our Lives
Today, we claim what Peter does; those beautiful words, the testimony of faith: “To whom else will we go, Lord? You have the words of eternal life.” We have…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Canticle of our Lives
The beautiful prayer that we hear quoted in today’s Gospel of Luke as we celebrate the Assumption is called the “Magnificat” or the “Canticle of Mary.” In this…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Co-creators in God's Work of Art.
In today’s gospel, we continue to read from this long passage in John’s Gospel called “The Discourse of the Bread of Life.” It is one of the largest discourses…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Catholic Imaginarium
The Catholic Imaginarium is something which we all live inside whether we realize it or not. It’s the very language we use: the symbols; the sacraments; the…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - The Power of Touch
The power of touch is real. And we need it especially the elderly and especially the young. The young children, teenagers even, they need to be loved; they…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
We want to believe in a God who would make things a lot easier by having only good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. It would…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time - Everyday Love Not Birthday Love
Last week, we entered into ordinary time and it is not ordinary as in “not extraordinary.” It is ordinary as it is ordered time. We now move back to the…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter - Mirror and Purifier
It is not enough to love those who love us, to mirror back; that part is important and good. We need to do that but we also must love those who are not capable…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood - Become a Little More Divine
The famous from Phase from St. Augustine’s encapsulates what the celebration of the Mass is all about; that when we come forward to receive the Body of Christ…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - Flow of Love
For centuries, theologians, priests and religious people have tried to express the meaning of the Trinity and some are more memorable than others. Of course…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Pentecost Sunday - Cannonball Experience
If we look back at this last 15 or 16 months since the pandemic, it’s been like a collective cannonball experience. But the the temptation is to not listen to…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Ascension Sunday - Do This in Remembrance
When our loved ones suffer; when our loved ones are dying; when our loved ones leave us then we have this memory. We have a memory that our love was and is…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the 5th Sunday of Easter - The Superfood of the Eucharist
In today’s gospel, Jesus reminds us that we must remain part of him because we can do nothing outside of him. He uses this beautiful metaphor of the vine and…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the 4th Sunday of Easter - Liminal Moment of Our Generation
Historically, this Sunday has been called Good Shepherd Sunday, the obvious connection to the gospel today, a reminder that Christ Jesus is the Good Shepherd…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter - A Beginner's Mind
The Easter season offers us all the opportunity to be witnesses to these things and that begins with a beginner’s mind; to witness to God present here and now…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter - Peace and Forgiveness
There are two things about this gospel that have always stood out for me and have somewhat troubled me. Here is my homily from the Second Sunday of Easter…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Easter Sunday - Ever Have the Time
My hope today is that today as we celebrate this Eucharist and come around this time, to recognize the sacredness and the grace and the preciousness of this…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Good Friday - The Three C's of the Cross
When we come to the Cross today, we see what Christ gave us. It was courage. It was commitment. It was community. And it was all in love. Love that costs…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Holy Thursday - It's Not Comfortable
Today, the Lord challenges what it means to serve. It is to get down on our hands and our knees and to wash another person’s feet, to love them the way Christ…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for Palm Sunday - Jesus as Best Friend
Today, we celebrate the Passion of Christ and we celebrate the clarity when Christ became the best friend to all humanity. Of course we know what defines a…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent - Produce Much Fruit
The constant theme that Christ brings about time and time again in his ministry, a reminder that God is already with them here and now, in his presence that he…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Fourth Sunday in Lent - Rejoice in the Light of Faith
"Whoever lives the truth come to the light." Can we not see the light right now that shines right in our midst; let us rejoice with the gift of the light of…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Third Sunday in Lent - Squirrel
I do not know what it is about the human condition that we find ourselves so easily distracted. We are trying to do something and then “Oh, look. Over there…
Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of GodHomily for the Second Sunday of Lent - Constant Growth
Lent is an opportunity for us to re-evaluate and see where our God already is in the world; that Jesus is right here with us. I sometimes fear that we look for…