Church of St. Anselm

09/03/2026

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09/01/2026

Join us in celebrating our annual Bonfire Mass on Saturday, September 12th at 7PM on the lawn. Please bring a chair!

08/29/2026

Deeply felt, thanks to some green felt.

A homily for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 30, 2026 Jeremiah 20:7-9, Romans 12:1-2, Matthew 16:21-27 A little bit of Muppets music, for us to hear in our memories and not for me to warble from the pulpit (praise the Lord). It's not that easy being green; Having to spend each day....

08/23/2026

Thank you for understanding.

No homily for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 23, 2026 Isaiah 22:19-23, Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20 When I was in formation to become a deacon, our mentors repeated early and often that, after God, family comes first. The families we're born into, and the families we assemble....

08/16/2026

Later than usual, but for a fine reason.

A homily (sort of) for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 16, 2026 Isaiah 56:1, 6-7, Romans 11:13-15, 29-32, Matthew 15:21-28 I have a confession to make. Two, actually. First, this may qualify more as a sermon or as a ponderance or as a freestanding prayer than as a homily for this weeke...

08/08/2026

Let's go for a walk.

A homily for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 9, 2026 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a, Romans 9:1-5, Matthew 14:22-33 There's a point in all children's lives when they transform, butterfly-like, from babies to toddlers. They haul themselves up, stand wobbily, and then ... toddle. They walk. Not....

08/02/2026

08/01/2026

More than enough.

A homily for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 2, 2026 Isaiah 55:1-3, Romans 8:35, 37-39, Matthew 14:13-21 Almost 100 years ago (holy cow!), The New Yorker magazine published a cartoon in which a fussy eater's mother tells her, “It's broccoli, dear.” The young girl famously snaps ba...

07/25/2026

More than a brand of (really good) potato chips.

A homily for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 26, 2026 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12, Romans 8:28-30, Matthew 13:44-52 If we count all the noses in the world, we discover that there are 8.3 billion-with-a-B people on Earth. Here in the USA, we make up almost 350 million members of our human family....

07/18/2026

What flavor are you?

A homily for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 19, 2026 Wisdom 12:13, 16-19, Romans 8:26-27, Matthew 13:24-43 Some people can be fussy about what they eat and how. Some picky eaters insist that certain foods cannot touch other items on their plates. No gravy near their peas and carrots, no...