Weekly Sunday Bulletin-February 7, 2016

Stewardship

Thank you for your faithful and generous support!

Because of you, our parish is able to offer the liturgical services, ministries, sacraments, educational opportunities, fellowship and cultural programs that cultivate community, strengthen families and transform lives.

For Reflection…

Blessed is he who is considerate to the needy and the poor. Not even night should interrupt you in your duty of mercy. There should be no delay between your intention and your good deed. Generosity is the one thing that cannot admit of delay. He who does acts of mercy should do so with cheerfulness. The grace of the deed is doubled when it is done with promptness and speed. What is given with a bad grace or against one’s will is distasteful and far from praiseworthy. When we perform an act of kindness we should rejoice and not be sad about it.

Let us visit Christ whenever we may, let us care for him, feed him, clothe him, welcome him, honor him, not only at a meal or by anointing him as Mary did, or by giving him gold, frankincense and myrrh, like the Magi.

The Lord of all asks for mercy, not sacrifice and mercy is greater than myriads of fattened lambs. Let us then show him mercy in the persons of the poor and those who today are lying on the ground, so that when we come to leave this world they may receive us into everlasting dwelling places.

A Sermon by Saint Gregory of Nazianzes