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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.
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.
We are all called to go, and we are sent not to be just disciples, but missionary disciples to go forth into the world to proclaim it through our words and actions. I sometimes fear that we are a little insecure, and we think that we need theology degrees or we need to be qualified as professionals. That that you need to be somehow more trained than others, but that is not the case. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Please feel free to share this email with others. Finally, I will be on vacation for the next four Sundays and there will be no homily. Please keep me in your prayers and be assured you will be in mine.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
Today is the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, two towering figures in the church. They literally laid down their lives in proclamation of the faith. But you know, Peter and Paul were not perfect people. We remember Peter's famous threefold denial. There he was, the closest of the apostles, and he himself denies Christ. And then Paul, who was once called Saul, was a persecutor of Christians. He had Christians tortured and beaten and killed in the name of righteousness. (Read more...) Here is my homily email from the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. Please feel free to share this email with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
Today is the feast of Corpus Christi as we used to call it, the Body and Blood of Christ. It gives a particular reverence to what we do at this table and at the Eucharist, our primary purpose for gathering us in thanksgiving. I am grateful for all of you being here, but it is hard for me to know there are so many more who are at home choosing not to come, not to offer thanks to God. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Please feel free to share this email with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
The Trinity, this sacred symmetry, is all about the flow of love, love from the father to the Son and the Son to the Father. The love that flows between them is the Holy Spirit. It is a beautiful sort of understanding. It is about this sacred symmetry and the the rhythm of life. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Solemnity of the Most Holy trinity. Please feel free to share this email with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
There is a certain freedom to how wild geese fly because of the unity that the goose brings to it. A goose never flies alone, they always fly in formation. And when geese fly, they fly in a “V” formation. Those who are at the front expend 70% more energy than the ones on the wings. They will readily get pretty tired, and then they move to the back of the V formation. Each one will take their role at the front. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Feast of Pentecost. Please feel free to share this email with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
In Celtic Christian spirituality, we believe, that when we are born, we become a traveler. We move from the invisible into the visible and then journey through this life. Then when we die, we complete the circle and move from the visible back to the invisible and our soul continues the journey. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Feast of the Ascension. At the vigil Mass, I had the honor of celebrating the 25th anniversary of my ordination with family and many friends. I am blessed with the ministry of my priesthood and am grateful to everyone in my life.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
The challenge is that we often do not want to listen to the Holy Spirit. We want our own opinion, and we want to what we want to do. What makes us as a church and institution different is that we promise that we are going to listen to the Holy Spirit. But this institution is more than just an institution. This church we do, we live. It is we, the body of Christ. We, the people of God, are the church. We are all called to listen to this Holy Spirit, to unify us together in all that we do in every day living. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Please feel free to share this email with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
Jesus is talking about how they will know us by who we are. They will know that you are followers if you love one another, or if you see this constant behavior in your life. They will recognize in your behavior that you are a follower and a believer in me. You see, it is not enough just to believe in Jesus Christ. We have to become followers of Jesus Christ, and that requires action, and those actions need to be consistent with who we claim to follow, Christ. And the question is then, how do we do this? What does this look like? (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Please feel free to share this email with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
We all just know our mother's voice. It is not that we are not unfamiliar with it. It is just that we may not always be paying attention to it. In the same way, we all know God's voice in our own life. We may just not be paying attention to it. We may not be hearing what we are called to hear. And here is the interesting thing, we can be busy about many good things in this world and still miss still miss the voice of the Lord, because we are not attuned to it. We are busy with lots of good things. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. This week I am away at our diocesan Clergy Study Week. Please keep me and all of the priests in your prayers. Please feel free to share this email with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
The reality is in all of our lives, we sometimes wander from the trail of life, in this journey of life, we do miss a sign or two. We get thrown off, and we follow a path that takes us to a place where we may sometimes take us a little time to figure out that we were down the wrong path. But then all we have to do is work our way back to that sign, the sign that points to God's love, and that sign is Jesus Christ in the world. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Third Sunday of Easter. This was the First Communion Mass for our children, so I was preaching to the children directly in the first part of the homily. Please keep these children in your prayers and please feel free to share it with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
No matter what, it is always better to be a person of the truth, and if you make mistakes, to tell the truth, to hold yourself accountable to that. It is not always easy to tell the truth or be a person of the truth because there is a certain amount of shame. But believe me, there is greater shame that comes from a lie when you do not tell the truth. (Read more…) Here is my homily email from the Second Sunday of Easter. Please feel free to share it with others.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
Pope Francis called the whole church with that sense of calling us back to the roots of who we are. He kept on bringing us back to Jesus. He kept on calling us back to primarily God’s mercy, his love, and his joy. I always remember his first letter to us, the Gospel of Joy. He talked about how important it is to be men and women of joy. And he has lived that in his papacy over these long years. He brought us back to the heart of Jesus. (Read more…) On Monday we learned of the passing of Pope Francis and we held a memorial Mass for him here at St. Simon. So here is a special edition of my homily email from that Mass. Please feel free to share it with others. And stay tuned for more events as we move this this transition of our Church.…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
We are called to let the light of Christ shine not only on us and within us, but from us, so that others can see that they have the grace, the gem of grace within them. These luminous minerals that we have in rocks are like the luminous grace of God within us. We are called to shine the light of Christ on others. It is not enough that we just celebrate here together with all of us who believe, we have to become the light in the world. (Read more…) Alleluia! He is risen! - Here is my Homily from the Easter Vigil. Please feel free to share it with others!…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
To watch a hopeless death is one to be avoided at all costs. But Christianity has a response. It may not be the answer we want, but it does have a response. Let me offer it to you because it is about what happens today. This is the response: it says first of all that not only God recognizes the suffering and the pain, and he does not remain at a distance. He enters into the suffering and the pain. He becomes one of us, and he accompanies us. He becomes one of us to the point of death on a cross. (Read more…)…
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Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
My friends, tonight is about service. Can we find a way to serve some other person in our community who feel completely left out? Some neighbor who feels estranged, maybe have lost a spouse, there is nowhere else to go. Can we love them where they are and get down low and serve them and realize that this is a new perspective for us. (Read more…) Here is my homily for Holy Thursday - Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper. Please feel free to share this with others. Join us tonight at 7:00pm here at St. Simon for the Living Stations of the Cross and Communion Service.…
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