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Toronto, Canada October 19, 2019

A Stewardship Prayer

Help us, Lord, so that we would hold nothing back, that no sacrifice would be too great, too costly, or too unthinkable. Send us, Lord, heroes and heroines of stewardship, saints on the journey whose walk as disciples inspire us to imitate and pattern our own lives after.

A Stewardship Prayer

Put on our path, Lord, men, women, and children who will model for us – for our diocese – how to live, how to serve, how to love the Lord with all our hearts. Let this be our prayer, let this be our greatest desire and intention.

 Most Reverend Carl Kemme

the grateful response

• f a Christian disciple

who recognizes and receives God’s gifts and shares these gifts in love of God and neighbor.

The Family

 It is in the family, then, where Christ's self-donating

love is first taught and learned. - Wichita

 The whole family in its common life, then, should be a

sort of apprenticeship for the apostolate” (AA, 30).

 Where even young people learn how their natural

qualities, fit them for this activity (AA 12).

Work Together

Play Together

Pray Together

Eat Together

“The spirit of stewardship is already present in our parishes.” - AC

Four Ingredients of Success

 Inspired pastors  Engaged lay leadership  Visionary Bishops  Collaborative presbyterate

History of Stewardship in CDOWK

 Fr. Thomas McGread 1968 – St. Francis of Assisi  Lay movements:

 Marriage Encounter  Charismatic  Cursillo  Perpetual Adoration

 Bishop Eugene Gerber  A People Gathered (1985) & Emmaus (1985)

• Msgr. Thomas McGread

 I noticed that people are looking

for standards in life… If we’re looking for standards in life we also must be looking for standards in our relationship with God…I realized there must be more to this idea of building a relationship with God. So that’s when I came up with the idea that all of us have a certain amount of time in this world, and all of us have a certain amount of talents.

As a way of life stewardship is an intrinsic aspect of discipleship and the fruits of stewardship are not separate from the lives of disciples.

Greater Freedom and Joy

 Freed from passiveness: “We are not possessed by our

possessions.”

 Gratitude: “An attitude of Gratitude”  Priorities are Straight - AC  Accountable - AC

Increased Vocations

 Increased vocations:

 2017 – 46 seminarians  2019 - 36

 Total Catholic growth

in Kansas from 2000-2010: 17.7% 5.1% average of Christians

Increased Worship

 47% Mass Attendance  Eucharistic Adoration in 63 of 90 parishes  Sunday Mass Attendance at SFA:

 3600 souls per weekend

 Weekday Mass: average 200 souls per day

 8:00 a.m. Mass & 5:30 p.m. Mass

Increased Confessions

 Average 450 confessions per week  Available 24 hours a week

 Parish Schedule:

 Monday – Friday: 4:45 – 5:30  Saturday: 3:00 – 4:00 pm  During all Sunday Masses  During all School Masses

 Pastor’s Schedule: Confession / Advise

 Monday – Thursday: 11:30 – Noon & 3:30 – 4:45pm  Everyday except Friday: 7:00 – 7:35 a.m. & 8:15 – 9:00 p.m.

Public Celebration of the Divine Office

 Morning Prayer: 7:40 a.m.  Daytime Prayer w/ Divine Mercy: 3:10 p.m.  Evening Prayer: 6:00 p.m.  Night Prayer w/ Office of Readings: 9:10 p.m.

Fruits in Love of Neighbor

 Presbyteral Solidarity  Parishioner Solidarity  Increase of service

• pportunities

 Increase youth commitment  Diocesan Ministries

 Guadalupe Clinic  Lord’s Diner  Catholic Care Center  Harbor House  Anthony Family Shelter

Ostensible Benefits

 Diocesan Income in 1985 - $15 Million  Diocesan Income in 2014 - $51 Million  No cathedraticums  No annual appeals  Two special collections  No second collections

Inter-Parochial Comparative Study

 Charles Zech - Best Practices in Parish Stewardship  Compared 227 stewardship parishes 208 non-

stewardship parishes.

National Average Average of Stewardship Parishes

• St. Francis of

Assisi in Wichita, KS in 2019 Treasure $517 per household $656 per household $1,925 per household Volunteering 27% of parishioners 32.13% of parishioners 39% of parishioners Spiritual Index 46.3% of parishioners 59.7% of parishioners

• Parish Outreach

3.34 per parish 4.6 per parish 10 at SFA

1 Peter 4:7-11

The Four Pillars of Stewardship

1 Peter 4:7-11

 As each one has received a gift (charisma), use it to

serve one another as good stewards (oikonomos) of God’s varied grace. - 1 Pet 4:10

 Oikonomos – Steward  Oikonomia - Economy of

Salvation

The Four Pillars of Stewardship

 An oikonomos or steward is one to whom the owner of

a household turns over responsibility for caring for the property, managing affairs, making resources yield as much as possible, and sharing the resources with

• thers. The position involves trust and accountability.

 God wishes human beings to be his collaborators in

the work of creation, redemption, and sanctification; and such collaboration involves stewardship in its most profound sense. - USCCB

The Four Pillars of Stewardship

 Therefore, be serious and sober for prayers. Above all,

let your love for one another be intense…Be hospitable to one another without complaining (1 Pet 4:7-9).

 Love of God  Love of neighbor  agape love: self-sacrificial love that is revealed in Jesus’

self-emptying and self-donation

The Four Pillars of Stewardship

 Whoever preaches (laleō), let it be with the words of

God; whoever serves (diakonia), let it be done with the strength God supplies. v. 11

 Laleō: to preach - the gift of wisdom, or knowledge, or

prophecy, doctrine, exhortation, interpretation

 Diakonia: to serve - healing, help, administration,

contributing, giving aid, and acts of mercy

Deep spiritual transformation… means individual and communal conversion and involves living discipleship in a spirit of generosity and total engagement.”

Cardinal Archbishop Thomas Collins

Promised Gift, Sacred Worship

 He who sows bountifully, will reap bountifully. - v. 6  God is able to make every grace abundant for you, so

that in all things, always having all you need, you may have an abundance for every good work. - v. 8

 God will multiply your seed. - v. 10  You are being enriched in every way for all generosity. -

• v. 11

Promised Gift, Sacred Worship

 So I thought it necessary to…arrange in advance for

your promised gift (proepangellomenon eulogia), so that it might be ready as a bountiful gift (eulogia) and not as an exaction… whoever sows bountifully (eulogia) will reap bountifully (eulogia). - 2 Cor 9:4-5

 On the first day of the week, each of you is to put

something aside… so that contributions need not be made when I come… to carry your gift to Jerusalem. - 1 Cor 16:1-2

Promised Gift, Sacred Worship

 For the administration (diakonia) of this public service

(leitourgia) is not only supplying for the needs of the holy ones but is also overflowing in many acts of thanksgiving to God. Through the evidence of this service (koinonia) you are glorifying God (2 Cor 9:12- 13)… and provide evidence…of…the generosity of your service (koinonia). - v. 13

Promised Gift, Sacred Worship

 Diakonia: “service” and “arrangement for support or

contribution.”

 Leitourgia adds a religious and sacrificial overtone to

the collection.

 Koinonia: “communion”

as well as a “willing contribution.”

Phil 2:5-8

Self-Emptying, Self-Donation Phil 2:5-8

 Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also

yours in Christ Jesus. - v. 5

 …who though he was in the form of God, did not

regard equality with God something to be grasped. v. 6

 …he emptied (kenoō) himself,

taking the form of a slave. - vs. 7

Self-Emptying, Self-Donation

 Engenders gratitude, elicits a response, and

encourages imitation

 I want not what is yours, but you. - 2 Cor. 12:14  Parishioners who fully appreciate the magnitude of

Jesus’ daily gift of Himself will full appreciate the debt we owe in return. - Living Life as God Intended It

“He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things besides?” (2 Cor 9:8).

Stewardship and Vocation

Trinitarian Foundation of Stewardship

 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit. - Mt 28:19

 Jesus is always present drawing us more nearly, more

dearly, more clearly into the mutual reciprocity and interdependent relationships which the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit enjoy without beginning or

• end. - Gerber

Apostolate, Discipleship, Holiness, Evangelization, Mission

The Apostolate

 The Church was founded for the purpose of spreading

the kingdom of Christ throughout the earth for the glory of God the Father, to enable all men to share in His saving redemption, and that through them the whole world might enter into a relationship with

• Christ. All activity of the Mystical Body directed to the

attainment of this goal is called the apostolate, which the Church carries on in various ways through all her members (AA, 2).

The Lay Apostolate

 Since, like all the Christian faithful,

lay persons are designated by God for the apostolate through baptism and confirmation, they are bound by the general obligation and possess the right as individuals, or joined in associations, to work so that the divine message of salvation is made known and accepted by all persons everywhere in the world (CIC no. 225).

The Laity

 The Laity are all the faithful except those in holy

• rders and those in the state of religious life specially

approved by the Church (LG, 33).

 The laity have their own share in the mission of the

whole people of God (AA, 2)

 The member who fails to make his proper contribution

to the development of the Church must be said to be useful neither to the Church nor to himself (AA, 2).

The Lay Apostolate: In the Church

 function in “more immediate cooperation with the

hierarchy” and “pastors should confidently entrust the laity with duties in service of the Church” (AG, 21, Presbyterorum Ordinis (PO) 9).

 “allowing them freedom

and room for action” (PO, 9)

The Lay Apostolate: In the World

 According to each one’s own condition, [the laity] are

also bound by a particular duty to imbue and perfect the order of temporal affairs with the spirit of the gospel and thus to give witness to Christ, especially in carrying out these same affairs and in exercising secular functions (216.2).

 The laity are called in a special way to make the

Church present and operative in those places and circumstances where only through them can it become the salt of the earth (LG, 33).

Fields of the Apostolate

• 1. Family…
• 2. Friendship…
• 3. Neighborhood…
• 4. Workplace…
• 5. Parish…
• 6. University…
• 7. Media…

Scott Hahn

Stewardship is Proactive - AC Where is your “C”?

reative

• or -

rea tive?

Stewardship is a “response of a Christian Disciple.”

Discipleship

 A disciple is one who responds to Christ’s call, follows

Jesus, and shapes his or her life in imitation of Christ’s.

• USCCB

 Mature disciples make a conscious, firm decision,

carried out in action, to be followers of Jesus Christ no matter the cost to themselves. – USCCB

 Once one becomes a Disciple of Jesus Christ,

stewardship is not an option. - Bishop McRaith

What is the Difference between Discipleship and Stewardship?

Stewardship and Holiness

 All are called to sanctity and have received an equal

privilege of faith through the justice of God. - LG, 32

 The faithful… must assist each other to live holier lives

even in their daily occupations (LG, 36).

Stewardship and Holiness

 Cardinal Sarah  In the West, where

everything seems to be dying and Christianity appears to be evaporating inexorably, there are nevertheless extraordinary hidden flowers. For the true springtime of the Church consists of the saints!

The practice of authentic Christian stewardship inevitably leads to

• evangelization. - USCCB

Evangelization

 Evangelization is the proclamation of the good news of

salvation in Jesus Christ with the goal of leading people to discipleship through faith and conversion.

 It seeks to convert not only the person but also, as Pope

Paul VI says, “the collective consciences of people, the activities in which they engage, and the lives and concrete milieu which are theirs. - EN 18

Evangelizers

 The obligation of every disciple of Christ according to

his state. - LG, 17

 Deeds: works of mercy and charity,  Words: preaching and teaching  Urgency and parrhesia, or boldness

Kerygma

 the basic

proclamation

• f the Gospel

 The kerygma is not an “optional contribution” for the

Church but is the “first and fundamental way of serving” (EN 5; RM 20).

 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so

that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. - John 3:16

• d’s Life

emption from sin advent of Christ

• nfessing His name

ternal life

The Kerygma

It’s not so much that the Church of Christ has a mission, as that the mission of Jesus Christ has a Church. - James Mallon

Stewardship and Mission

 Since the whole Church is by its

nature missionary and the work

• f evangelization must be held as

a fundamental duty of the people

• f God, all the Christian faithful,

conscious of their responsibility, are to assume their part in missionary work (CIC, no.781).

Stewardship and Mission

 I dream of a “missionary option,” that is, a missionary

impulse capable of transforming everything… parishes must become more mission-oriented. - Pope Francis

Stewardship and Mission

 Missionary outreach is

paradigmatic for all the Church’s activity… we need to move from a pastoral ministry of mere conservation to a decidedly missionary pastoral ministry. - EG, 6

Stewardship must be subordinated to discipleship and discipleship be missionary in its practice.

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