Parish Council Tonight

Tonight, our parish council met. One of the most over-arching topics that we discussed was our parish's practice of Stewardship. We spoke about how our Parish Plan calls us to renew our efforts to educate and form all parishioners to be good stewards, sharing time, talent, and treasure as co-owners of our community.

One of the first things we need is: more parishioners to volunteer to serve on the Parish Stewardship Committee. The Stewardship Committee should meet monthly for one hour, and the current chair of that committee is Mary-Jo Lopez.

The stewardship committee is responsible for keeping the whole parish community appraised of new and creative ways that we can exercise our call and responsibility to be good stewards of our parish. The Stewardship Committee can look at the members of our parish, look at their occupations, and invite them to share their gifts to build up the community.


Imagine if we had say, 20 Insurance professionals in our parish. They could put together a conference or a workshop to advise:

a. Newly married couples, starting their families.

b. Folks planning their retirement needs.

c. Seniors, planning their funeral needs.

These are just a few examples of how we could possibly use just one group of folks already in the parish, to invite them to come together, and to serve the needs of our parishioners and even outsiders!

Imagine the possibilities! Imagine if all of the nurses of our parish got together! Imagine if all of the lawyers got together! IT COULD HAPPEN!!!


Think about joining the Stewardship Committee for this year. See me after any of the masses next weekend if you think that you can help!