For several years the Diocese of Rochester has held an annual Stewardship day with a featured speaker. This year it was a combined theme of Evangelization and Stewardship with a guest speaker. The New Evangelization calls us to learn more about our faith. Our understanding of how our call to be good Christian Disciples should …
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God has given each of us many gifts. No one has all the gifts but working together as a community of believers we have all the gifts we need. We begin working together by each recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses. It is as an important to know our weaknesses as well as our strengths. …
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Last night, our parish school in Penn Yan (St. Michael’s School) held its spring concert. The first third of the concert was the band playing instrucmental pieces. The rest of the concert was all the children singing as one large group and by class. Everything went well. It showed that the children had practiced and …
Yesterday was the 7th Annual Stewardship Day in the Diocese of Rochester. Representatives from parishes throughout the diocese gathered to listen to speakers about stewardship. The main speaker was Susan Erschen of the diocese of St. Louis where she is the Director of Stewardship Education. She defined stewardship as recognizing that everything we have is a …
I just returned this evening from a short time to New York City. Yesterday I attended an all-day meeting of PCNY (the Priests’ Council of New York). We hold quarterly meetings with priests representing all the diocese of New York State. We come together to discuss the common challenges we face. This month one of …
This week my diocese began its annual appeal known as the Catholic Ministries Appeal. Obviously, the goal of the appeal is to raise money to pay for the “work” of our diocese. However, the appeal is not about money. It’s about ministry and mission. Whenever we hear about any charitable organization doing an appeal or …
At Our Lady of the Lakes we are going to have our first meeting on stewardship in the parish this Tuesday (8/17/2010), which raises the question what is stewardship? Stewardship is a word that is becoming more commonly used in Catholic Churches. Sometimes it is seen as just another way of asking people for money. …
