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Stewardship of Treasure

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“As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” (I Peter 4:`10)

Annual Tithe Commitment

Stewardship has been one of the guiding principles of Catholic Christian life in this parish for a long time now. We try to make it the attitude we bring to all our parish activities and all our parish life.

We have not achieved perfection by any means, but this attitude of “Leaning how to live in gratitude” does characterize most of what we do and how we do it.

We see ministry as “overflow” from what God has given to us. We see our generously sharing of finances with the parish and with other needs as a responsible way of “giving thanks” for God’s blessings of material goods that have been entrusted to us in this world.

I really think that many, many of you “get it”, “understand it”, are “grasped by it”, so that stewardship is not misunderstood as another fancy name for fund-raising. Rather stewardship represents a whole different attitude than the one most of us were raised with as Catholics, an attitude that is truly worthy of mature Christians.

Our parish is continually growing in conscious awareness of being a “stewardship parish”. I trust you as good stewards to share generously what God has entrusted into your hands.