Striving to know, love, and serve God in all others.
For information about Stewardship at St. Benedict Parish, please contact Cindy Andrews at 576-6147.
My parish is composed of people like me.
I help make it what it is. It will be friendly, if I am.
It will be holy, if I am. Its pews will be filled, if I help fill them.
It will do great work, if I work. It will be prayerful, if I pray.
It will make generous gifts to many causes, if I am a generous giver.
It will bring others into its worship if I invite and bring them.
It will be a parish of loyalty and love, of fearlessness and faith,
of compassion, charity, and mercy, if I, who make it what it is,
am filled with these same things.
Therefore, with the help of God, I now dedicate myself to the task
of being all the things that I want my parish to be.
Amen.
St. James warns in today's reading that those who hoard their wealth and live only for themselves will be condemned. But in the Gospel, Jesus assures us that all who give of themsleves for His sake will be rewarded.