Today's feast helps us appreciate and better understand the essential role of the church in our salvation and it's authority given by Christ to Peter and the successors of the apostles. Through it God mediate salvation to us still to this day. Thanks be to God!
Homilia del padre Carlos.
We have just celebrated Easter, The Ascension Pentecost, Holy Trinity and now the Body of the Blood of Christ. What is the relationship between all these? It is the Sacrament that makes all these others realities present to us today.
Homilia del padre Carlos
This feast reveals how we treat our brothers and sisters is important. We can never lose our fundamental identity that we are all children of God brothers and sisters. A prayer for our world in these divided and violent times.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
Today we celebrate Pentecost Sunday the birthday of the church when we are filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit that bring a supernatural joy and other gifts in addition to salvation.
In the readings from today's feast of The Ascension we hear of the important role of witnesses of the resurrection of Jesus in the Church.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
The Holy Spirit is to the church what Jesus was to his disciples. Now it is by the power of the Holy Spirit that the body of Christ is made alive and it's guided and this is done through both charismatic and the institutional church. Pray to the Holy Spirit individually and seek his wisdom as mediated and revealed through the church the sacraments in the magisterium.
Faith Hope and love our divine gifts. We must have faith and Hope in the power of God's Love. This is what it means to give God glory.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
If we reflect on our lives we can notice a difference between doing our will and doing the wheel of another who calls us to places where we would not go on our own. Today's challenge from God is to learn how to hear his voice, and obey it. Only this leads to fullness of joy, purpose, and fruitfulness.
Homilia del padre Carlos
We gather for mass on the first day of the resurrection, the next Sunday and every Sunday to encounter the risen Lord truly present breathing His resurrected life into us. And as the father sent Jesus to us while we were still unworthy we are called to go and show God's mercy to other others, even those we might think our unworthy.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
Like the early disciples we come to the evidence of the empty tomb and travel from unbelief, to openness to the possibility that Jesus has risen, to belief that He is Risen, and then finally to a life-changing encounter in love.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
God is doing something new, and does not condemn us but wants to re-create us. The woman caught in adultery shows what God has done for all of us.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
We live in a divided world. Are we going to approach it more like Jesus, or more like the Scribes and Pharisees in the Gospel parable today about the two brothers of The Loving Father.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
As in Jesus's day today some people still believe God punishes sinners with illness suffering and death. These are rather the consequences of our sin, that God does allow. However God does not desire that we die in our sin, rather he sends his son to save us from the consequences of sin which is death. Death becomes a servant of God that reminds us all of our need to repent and accept the salvation one for us by Jesus not our good works.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
God stands at the center of all time making those who came before Him and those who came after Him members of God's family by uniting us to Himself.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
Life is a spiritual battle, we are being tested. The testing strengthens our faith if we fight the battle not by our strength but by Christ who is our strength and Savior.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
Today we conclude the sermon on the plane where Jesus has set out the higher standard for his disciples and then shares that he is the image into which we are to become if we are to live up to that standard. Although we fall short that should not discourage us, because he also gives us the power to become what we see in him.
Homilia del padre Carlos.
