Good morning everyone. I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass and my special welcome to all our parishioners, visitors and every one who is here today and I would also thank you all for coming out today to thank God in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit for all our gifts and talents. Yes we are all given so many talents and gifts; so many possibilities and ways to use them wisely.
Once a lady died and before entering into heaven, St. Peter said to her, “Before entering into heaven, I would like to test your talents and you should at least spell a word correctly”. She said, “What word?” any word. She spelled L-O-V-E, Love and thus she entered into heaven. Then St. Peter was taking a break saying to her, “If any one comes to heaven, just do what I did”. And while she was waiting at the gate, there came her ex-husband. She looked at him and said, “What are you doing here?” “ I took a heart attack. Is it heaven?” yes before entering into heaven, you should spell a word correctly. He said, “what word?” she said, “Czechoslovakia”.
Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” We are all given enough talents and gifts for ourselves and as well to help others. If we know how to use them wisely, then we will constantly enjoy our life. God who is so compassionate and loving and who sent His only Son Jesus to us blessed us abundantly. He filled us all with so many gifts and talents. From life comes out only life and from fullness comes out only fullness and from God comes out only goodness and we who are created by His loving kindness are all filled with wisdom and knowledge; love and kindness. We are all highly blessed with so many gifts and talents and in order to enjoy them, we should keep using them.
But at the same time it is not easy to use all our talents or gifts; because of our humanness, we will not use them effectively. We may just let it go.One day a boy was called to the principal’s office. The principal looked at him and said, “Son, you are in big trouble because you cheated on your written test”. “No, I did not”. “Yes, you copied off your friend John”. The boy said, ‘No, John cheated off me” then the principal looked at him and said, “ for example, for the question, what did Mr. Santa do under the tree?” your friend John wrote, “I don’t know” and you wrote, “Neither do I”.
Hidden talents and gifts should be discovered and be used properly. Instead of saying, “ I do not have any gift or talent when we look at what we have, we can do so much in this world” And that is all we see in the Bible too, every time God called people, they all said, ‘God, I do not have any talent to do this job’ but because of divine power, they all eventually explored the tremendous human potentiality in them.There is a beautiful story about Martha Berry who had a vision of helping poor children. She wanted to build a school for them and she did not have any money but only a vision. Then she got an appointment with Mr. ford and told him about her vision.
He then reached his pocked and took a dime and gave it to her. She was not insulted or felt ridiculed instead she used the dime to buy seeds and sowed them in her garden. After three or four harvest, she got enough money to buy an old building and thus she made her vision came true and then she went to Mr. Ford and told him what she did with the dime. The man was so impressed and donated her more than million dollars for her school.
We are all given so many gifts and talents and it is our duty to use them wisely for the well being of others and for our society. The great thing about our God is He has not left us here helpless and Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit who filled us with talents and gifts. Though our Master is away for a while, we are given so many gifts and talents to use them. Let us multiply them. Let us use them wisely to make this world, our society and our home a spiritual place where we can experience the love and kindness of God our Father every day. Amen.
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