GRATEFUL AND GENEROUS--that was the theme of last Sunday’s Stewardship Awareness homilies, in league with parishes throughout the Archdiocese. As we appreciate how generous God has been to us, we are naturally grateful and share our gifts generously with him ourselves. My Sunday homily on starting life over is available online. Starting next week, with Stewardship Cards returned, we’ll see even more generosity from our parishioners in all areas. This week, as every year, we h

GRATEFUL AND GENEROUS The letter you received from me this week invited you to think about your GRATITUDE. It’s a theme that comes up a lot these days. Can any of us say we’re grateful enough to those around us—that we express to family, friends, or those who do good for us, that we appreciate it? I know I have to constantly remember it, work at it. This Sunday begins the actual Stewardship Awareness mini-season. Last Sunday I gave the Annual Financial Report, a practical and

With the Annual Parish Financial Report this weekend, we begin an important mini-season: Stewardship. I don’t talk about money from the pulpit very much, but this weekend’s report is required by church law so that you, the parishioners, are made aware of how the money of the parish is handled. With the fiscal year that just ended on June 30, we entered a new phase of the parish finances, in which we don’t operate the school ourselves, but pay a reasonable amount to the partne