Dear Lord God, You alone are the source of every good gift and the mystery of each human life. We thank you for creation and for your tender, faithful love. Fill our minds with the Gospel of your son Jesus and fill our hearts with his compassion. Send your Spirit to grant us wisdom, that our gratitude may bind us together into a community of faith and a caring people. Give us the courage to express ourgratitude first as we discern how to be good stewards of the gifts entrusted to us, that we may do the work for your Kingdom. In your son’s name we pray, Amen!
The St. Therese Stewardship Corner shares weekly stories and reflections on how our parishioners are sharing their gifts.
Brothers and sisters, rejoice. Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.
Last week, Rosemary Adamski gave a wonderful appeal for the Annual Catholic Appeal. She quoted Mother Teresa, “I am a little pencil in the hand of a loving God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” She asked, "What kind of pencil am I and what is the love letter I am in this world? What kind of message is my life projecting and imprinting?"
To be sure, many in our congregation are not happy with how the Archdiocese has chosen to handle the priest shortage, to say nothing of the parishioner shortage. Nonetheless, here are six reasons to support the appeal:
Last Saturday I attended the Catholic Earth Day Summit at Seattle U. It started with Fr. James Martin’s Ten Messages from Laudato Si’: A spiritual perspective of ecology is given. . . .
The point is, you don’t have to be one of the Eleven or take Holy Orders to be important to Jesus. You might even think you can run away from him. He loves you anyway and will come for you.