Share your Time, Talents & Treasure
Numerous Stewardship opportunities exist for adults and young adults at St. Francis Xavier. Our parish community will benefit from your Time, Talent and Treasure by your commitment and involvement in:
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• Prayer & Worship
• Parish Life
• Education
• Activities
• Human Relations
• Diocesan Activities
• Financial/Tithing
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To learn more about Stewardship, please call the parish office
at 252-1363.
“Each individual must stand before the world as a witness to the resurrection and life of the Lord Jesus and a symbol of the living God. All the laity as a community and each one according to ability must nourish the world with spiritual fruits. They must diffuse in the world that spirit which animates the poor, the meek, the peacemakers —whom the Lord in the Gospel proclaimed as blessed. In a word, “Christians must be to the world what the soul is to the body.”
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Stewardship
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There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is working in all of them.”
1 Corinthians 12:4-6
At no time in the history of the Church were the People of God meant to be passive. Jesus’ most controversial and celebrated teaching moment was His directive for His followers to “Love one another”. That active (and activating) love was to be the mark by which they might be known; it is the manifestation in both the spiritual and physical world of how and why we are called ‘Christian”. That simple call led to a transformation of the world 2000 years ago, and it leads us still as we engage in continuing conversion to more fully realize the Kingdom of God.
Our understanding of Church and our membership in the Church has been shaped and formed by the direction and leadership of the Second Vatican Council. Under the pastoral guidance of Pope John XXIII, the Church, mindful of the “signs of the times”, reinvigorated its understanding of Jesus’ teaching and boldly called out again Jesus’ own invitation to the first disciples to “Follow me”.
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In the most important document from Vatican II, De Ecclesia (Constitution on the Church),the role of the laity is set forth without ambiguity. “The term laity is here understood to mean all the faithful... These faithful are by baptism made one body with Christ and are constituted among the People of God; they are in their own way made sharers in the priestly, prophetical and kingly functions of Christ; and they carry out for their own part the mission of the whole Christian people in the Church and in the world”. (n. 31)
A favorite contemporary hymn in many parishes is “We Are Many Parts” by the prolific Marty Haugen. Choirs and congregations sing these lines with gusto; “We are many parts, we are all one body. And the gifts we have, we are given to share”.
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It is the challenge of the Gospel, and the renewed charge of the Church to its members that those sentiments resonate in action and ministry and service.
It is a celebration of the richness of God’s own creation and the beautiful diversity woven in God’s great plan. It is not just for priests and bishops, ordained and professed men and women to participate in the work of the Kingdom, but for each of us—regardless of age, gender or station in life—to proclaim that song of the Kingdom in our own unique and inimitable ways. Our talents and strengths and gifts are an integral part of God’s plan.
It is the completion of our baptismal commitment to live a life in, but apart from, the world; joined in communion with Jesus, we are witnesses of a distinctively radical and different Way against the selfish and self-serving values of a fallen world.
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Download & print the electronic giving authorization form.
You can drop it off or mail it in to the parish office.
Any questions, please call
Adam Vonderahe - 320-252-1363