Stewardship & Development
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Encontrándonos a Cristo Liberando alegremente tus dones
¿Está interesado en explorar una relación más cercana con Jesús en su vida diaria? ¿Tiene curiosidad por explorar lo que podría significar ser un líder de corresponsabilidad dentro de su parroquia? ¿Ha participado en uno de nuestros Retiros de corresponsabilidad anteriores y le vendría bien otro día de inspiración para profundizar su conversión?
Si es así, únase a nosotros para un día de oración y reflexión diseñado para ayudarlo a encontrar a Cristo más profundamente mientras fomenta el gozo de dar generosamente a Dios y al prójimo.
El retiro espera recuperar el verdadero significado de la palabra "corresponsabilidad". Al encontrarse con Jesucristo, los participantes del retiro comenzarán a comprender la realidad liberadora de que la corresponsabilidad sigue a la conversión, y la conversión ocurre al encontrarse con el amor de Jesús.
Por favor regístrese a continuación para guardar su lugar para nuestro Retiro de mayordomía en español 2022, que tendrá lugar el 26 de marzo de 2022 en la Catedral de San Agustín recientemente renovada y dedicada.
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Are you interested in exploring a closer relationship with Jesus in your daily life? Are you curious about exploring what it might mean to be a Stewardship Leader within your parish? Have you participated in one of our past Stewardship Retreats and could use another day of inspiration to deepen your conversion?
If so, please join us for a day of prayer and reflection designed to help you encounter Christ more deeply while encouraging the joy of generous giving to God and neighbor.
The retreat hopes to reclaim the true meaning of the word "stewardship." By encountering Jesus Christ, retreat participants will begin to grasp the freeing reality that stewardship follows conversion, and conversion happens through encountering the love of Jesus.
Please register below to save your spot for our March 26, 2022 Hispanic Stewardship Retreat, to take place at St. Augustine Cathedral's Crowley Center.
Our Stewardship Retreat will begin at 8 a.m. followed by a full day of inspiration, connection and quiet time. This event offers a light breakfast and lunch (a $5 free-will lunch donation is requested) at no cost. -
ENCONTRÁNDONOS A CRISTO LIBERANDO ALEGREMENTE TUS DONES
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The Joy of Stewardship“Once one decides to become a Disciple of Jesus Christ, Stewardship is no longer an option."
Stewardship, quite simply, is recognizing that everything we have and everything we are is a gift from God, and being grateful for and generous with those gifts.
We aren’t “owners” of anything, we are merely “stewards” of the gifts that God has given us.
Stewardship isn’t a process, or a campaign, or an accounting of our gifts. Rather, it is a lifestyle rooted in gratitude and generosity.
The whole point of stewardship is to help each other strengthen our relationship with God and get to Heaven!
The foundation of stewardship is prayer – talking and listening to God every day, throughout the day.
Stewardship means putting complete trust in God, in all things.
Stewardship means sharing all of our gifts, especially that one that means the most to you.
By sharing all of our gifts, it helps us keep God first in everything, from putting other “gods” before God. It helps us live “God-centered” lives and not “self-centered” lives.
Of all the gifts that God gives us, the one he wants the most is our heart. He wants us to share out of love, not out of obligation.
When we align our thoughts and actions with God’s plan and use our gifts in the way God intended, our lives become transformed with Joy, Love, Mercy and Peace.
To learn more about my stewardship conversion journey and the aim of the Diocese to shift how the faithful think of stewardship, please view my presentation to St. Mary Parish, Kalamazoo here: https://youtu.be/FDxl5wCDQ3M.
In gratitude,Tom DowdallDirector,
Office of Stewardship and Development
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