Category: Stewardship
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Watch This
I am on vacation this week, being a good steward of time with my family, so I have not been posting much and have been relying on my blog friends. (Thanks Steve, Chuck, & Teresa.) So my post today is short and a recommendation to watch this new video from the Institute for Faith, Work,…
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Give As The Giver Gives
Give As The Giver Gives “As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace” (1 Pt 4:10). The stretch of Ordinary Time after Easter is time that offers many celebrations. The month of May warms up with First Communions and Mother’s Day. June and…
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Going Home
After 10 days, today I am headed home. I travel quite a bit, but normally the trips are shorter. This one took me from Seattle to Orlando. As planes flew over the continental United States, there were a whole lotta people on the ground. It really is amazing to think about: all those people, each…
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Everyday Stewardship / 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official’s house arrived and said, “Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?” Disregarding the message that was reported, Jesus said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid; just have faith.” He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside except Peter, James,…
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Extending the Catholic Community
Recently an article I wrote was the lead article for LPI’s CONNECT product. It spoke to the value of extending one’s experience of church by creating a community of businesses that are worthy of patronage, not just because they support your church by taking out an ad in your Sunday bulletin, but because they are…
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Everyday Stewardship / 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
For the love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. Consequently, from now on we…
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
This week, I was watching a movie that seriously questioned the integrity of a woman’s boyfriend. Early in the story two young women read a newspaper profile of an unknown suspect that included a police sketch. One of the women said to the other that the sketch looked like the first’s boyfriend. He had in…
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The Risk of Eating Well
So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” So they said to him, “Sir, give…
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God is God Wherever We Are
God is God wherever we are; and those we meet are the Body of Christ Greetings from Dusseldorf – where work has brought me for 2 days to inspect two British Schools in Germany. It almost feels as if I am straddling 2 worlds. Fly in this afternoon and walk by the Rhine, watching the…
Tracy Earl Welliver 