Transcripts of Msgr. Anderson homilies
May 16, 2025
You and I have been gifted with this day by God. This day is God’s gift to us. What we do with it should be a gift back to Him.
He doesn’t ask us to do the difficult, although
it seems at times that what should come naturally
to a Christian is hard for us:
Get through the day without gossiping – if you must
speak about someone, say something good.
If you are angry, take it to Jesus.
Sometimes, we don’t even get out of the parking lot of this church before we get upset. We will have
many instances today that could cause us to stumble; we will have more instances that will give us the opportunity to reflect who we are and whose we are.
No one has come to believe in Mary’s son because we
build a building – it is not the building that is Holy, it is those of us inside who are, and are called to bear witness to Him. So may the words we speak this day, the deeds we do, reflect who we are and whose we are. And may others find a reason to believe in Mary’s son because they have spent time with you and me.
May 2, 2025
Today, when we look around and see all that is needed we may at times feel inadequate.
We are clever people. We have sent people to the moon. Yet here on earth, food goes to waste while human beings hunger and babies like that go to bed without food. Something is wrong with that picture.
It is not that God has not given us enough – with God there is more than enough. Unfortunately, you and I
are at times more selfish than we are generous.
Most of us here, if truth be told, have more than what we need. And if your house is like mine, at the end of the week, you’ll put some of the food in the garbage because you couldn’t eat it all.
I don’t believe our God will pat us on the back – we who live in the land of the bounty and have brothers and sisters go hungry. So let us ask the Lord our God to touch our hearts, help us as Christians to live up to what we profess to be. For with Mary’s son, there is always more than enough. May it be said the same of the likes of us, God bless.
