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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238 episodes
Homily for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity - Sacred Symmetry of the Holy Spirit
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 s...
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Homily for Pentecost - Holy Spirit Goose
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% m...
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Homily for the Feast of the Ascension - The Circles of Our Lives
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 t...
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Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter - Let the Holy Spirit Come!
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 ...
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Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter - Neural Pathways of the Heart
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 bel...
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Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter - Learning to Listen to the Voice 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....
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Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter - Signs on the Path of Life
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 ...
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Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter - Divine Mercy and kindness
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 a...
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Homily for the memorial of Pope Francis - Joy of the Gospel
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 le...
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Gem of God's Grace - Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter
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 o...
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Homily for Good Friday of the Lord's Passion - Oil of Our Presence
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...
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Homily for Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper - New Perspective: New Model to Follow
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 t...
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Homily for Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion - Defining Moments
The scriptures are a collection of defining moments for the Jewish and the Christian people. They have been put together for the most defining moments of our history. The Gospels are collection of defining moments of Jesus' life. And today's Go...
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Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Third Scrutiny - Showing Up
Today, more than ever, we need to be people who are willing to show up, to show up and not save people, not to rescue them, but to be present to them in the midst their suffering. Whether it be from a divorce or whether it be from a rejection o...
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Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent - Love Not Lectures
All of us have made mistakes. We have all done something that was wrong, whether a little thing when we were a child or something older. We will always remember how we were treated in that moment of shame, that moment of being caught. That mome...
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Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent - Thin Places and Holy Ground
Our lives have become so busy and even about the good things, we can be so busy, we miss God speaking to us at these liminal moments where God is trying to say something different than what we want to hear. It might be saying something challeng...
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homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Second Scrutiny - Darkness Can Be Our Friend
Sometimes the darkness in our lives can be in fact our friend, because it allows us to focus only on what we need to focus on.Today we have this reading, this classic reading of the man born blind in his blindness. Here is the irony. Here is a ...
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Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent - Coming to His Senses
Sometimes we find it hard to accept that God would forgive us for our mistakes. Sometimes when we hurt somebody who we really love and we know we have hurt them and we ask for forgiveness from the Lord, we ask in a sense why did I do that? And ...
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Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent, First Scrutiny - Living Water for All
We are called to take the living waters, take the bread of life that we receive from here, and to share it with those who so desperately need that fresh living water. You and I might be the only person this week who offers it to them. If you ge...
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Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent - Come To Know Christ and Love HIm
“Who do people say that I am?” The apostles first say, you are Elijah or John the Baptist, or one of the other prophets. But then he asks them, he says, “Who do you say that I am?” And Peter, the one who confesses says, “You are the son of the ...
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Homily for the First Sunday of Lent - Who We Are Is the Core of Our Identity
How we refocus ourselves this Lent is not about our will. It is not us trying to will ourselves back and pushing away the devil in some dramatic fashion. Just come back to who we are. Come back to the fact that we are children of God and that G...
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Homily for Ash Wednesday - I am a Sinner. I am a Hypocrite
What we do today is put ashes on our forehead. Not to have a badge of honor that says, “Look at me. I am one of the Catholic ones.” We put ashes on our forehead to remind us to say, “I am a sinner. I am a hypocrite.”But we do not stay there. We...
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Homily for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time - Love your Enemies
Jesus reorders life. He quotes the golden rule. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” That was in the Book of Deuteronomy as one of the laws of the Lord. But he takes it a step further. He deepens it and calls his disciples, the ...
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Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Guardians of Beauty and Prophets of Truth
Pope Francis has declared 2025 a Jubilee Year of Hope, a timely reminder that even in the face of immense suffering in our world, we are not abandoned, Jesus always accompanies us and most especially in our times of suffering. The cross stands ...
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Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Limitation to Invitation to Abundance
You can hear a sense of frustration in today’s gospel with Peter. Peter has been working hard all night with his friends, he says they were up all night and caught absolutely nothing. Then here comes Jesus. Remember, Jesus is a carpenter and he...
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