When the kingdom of God stands face-to-face to the kingdoms of this world, there is a conflict, there is a battle. If we stand with Him, He fights the battle on our behalf. His victory will be ours. Let’s learn how to make our prayer His prayer, through a practice called apostolic intercessory prayer. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Jesus speaks of the end times both as something that has already come, and something yet to come. We are in the end times. They began 2,000 years ago at Jesus’s first coming, and will continue until his second coming. This is a time that the Holy Spirit is given to us to bring us back to God to help us to turn from sin which we could not do on our own. It’s a great blessing and mercy that God has given us. Let us open our hearts to the Holy Spirit in Sacrament,  and Prayer, and allow it to be...

The widow in the Gospel gave all she had, but in the world’s eyes it was a small amount. We too are called to do Give God our all in  whatever “Little Portion” of His Kingdom God gives us. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Christ is the only one who can articulate the law, and fulfill it. He becomes the perfect fulfillment of the love of God and the love of  neighbor, by his sacrifice as God’s Only Son on the cross.  He makes visible God’s love for us, and shares with us the Holy Spirit. We can join ourselves to him to make our imperfect sacrifice acceptable to God, and by his strength to love one another. We can help that happen by a short prayer done every morning and every evening. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Testimonies and prayers, that we may travel the journey of Bartimaeus from sitting on the side of the road as a poor spiritual beggar to encountering Jesus and changing the direction of our life.

What does it mean that Christ gave his life as a ransom for all? How does Christ save us? What does he save us from? How do we accept that salvation? It is by drinking from the cup He drank from and being baptized with the baptism in which he was baptized so that we may be one with Him, the Servant of all.

Even the most blessed person, with everything that the world longs for, still does not have enough for what we truly long for; eternal life with God. Only by surrendering to Jesus can we receive eternal life. We are saved not by our power, only by His. Jesus gazes at us in love and invites us to leave everything to follow Him to that life.  How will you respond?

God created marriage as a pattern of His marriage to us. The purpose of marriage is to lead us to Him, and to live in Him, to become one with Him and in so doing we become one with one another. The life Christ calls us to is difficult and messy, but He wants us to reach out to Him for the grace to do it, and even if we fail to still come to Him out Truest Spouse. 

Homilia del Padre Carlos. 

Jesus uses very strong language, to warn us of the necessity to avoid sin, and to do good in his name. There is no sin I can’t be forgiven, and no wounds that can’t be healed, but Jesus still wants us to do all we can to avoid evil and do good, and he has given us His Spirit to help. 

Jesus teaches that to be great is to be the servant of all, by working for the common good through justice. This allows us all to be great together.  Jesus, further uses example of welcoming a child to teach us that we must seek to welcome all people, especially the least, into the human community which is God’s family. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Today’s times in many ways are no different than the times of Jesus when he was tempted to use worldly powers, leaders, politics, and armies to bring about the kingdom of God. But these are just ways to avoid the cross, the longer and more difficult way of humility, sacrificing and Love. This is the way that Jesus chose to promote the kingdom, and he asks us to pick up our cross and follow him. 

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Christians are often criticized for hypocrisy, and Catholic Christians are often criticized for their human traditions. But law and traditions have an important role to help us shape our heart and to help guide us when are hearts are still a work in progress.  But only Jesus who joined us in our humanity, so that we may join him in his divinity, purifies our hearts through the Holy Spirit, His presence in us. His transformation of our hearts is a lifelong task,  nourished by the  Sacred...

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Faith in the Eucharist is ultimately a gift from God that we can ask for. God reveals himself to us.  The Eucharist unites us and gives us strength to serve one another. Today we hear from a lay missionary, who has dedicated her life to serving Christ’s body.  

Homilia del padre Carlos con una misionera.

For me, with an engineering background, it’s been a long struggle to appreciate the Eucharist and the great gift it is. I used to think it was such an arbitrary idea. Why would God be present in a piece of bread? But now I realize it makes tremendous sense, historically, scripturally, and theologically. But still it requires faith to believe, and perhaps that’s the greatest beauty of it! We will never be able to fully understand God and all he has done to save us, and to be with us, but let...

Homilia del padre Carlos. 

Jesus Christ is the True shepherd, the One mediator between God and humanity. But to be a complete follower of Christ means also to be an active member of His church, which he established to lead others to Christ, and He promised to be with it until the end of time. Rather than an obstacle, it is meant to be, and with Christ present in it offering His grace, is a means to a deeper relationship with Jesus.