For November, the International Catholic Stewardship Council recognizes one of its nonprofit members – Cross Catholic Outreach.
Cross Catholic Outreach is a Catholic nonprofit organization whose mission is to mobilize the global Catholic Church to transform the poor and their communities materially and spiritually. The organization serves the poorest of the poor by channeling life-changing aid through an international network of dioceses, parishes and Catholic missionaries. This cost-effective approach helps break the …
Stewardship Saint for November: Saint Columban
Saint Columban The life of Saint Columban (also referred to as Columbanus) revealsa man who exercised remarkable stewardship over his life of faith and his gifts for evangelizing. He was born into a noble family in West Leinster, Ireland, in about543; a time when the great Celtic monasteries were being established in Ireland. He received …
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ICSC November Stewardship Prayer
Stewardship Prayer Thank you, LordFor all the beautiful and wonderful things weexperience in our life;for the beauty of the earth and its amazing colors;for crisp autumn mornings and sparkling winter nights;for mountains and forests, rivers and seashores. Thank you, LordFor all the beautiful and wonderful things weexperience in our life;for the water that cleanses, the …
Stewardship Reflection: Stewardship and the faithful mission of ICSC
The words continued to reverberate in the mind of the archbishop as he left the first session of the Second Vatican Council: “Every opportunity should be given the laity to share zealously in the salvific work of the Church…” For the late Joseph Cardinal Ritter, these words inspired him to explore ways by which dioceses …
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ICSC October Stewardship Prayer
Stewardship Prayer Lord Jesus Christ, We serve in your nameas did your apostles before us.And we live, as they did, in anxious times,painfully aware of sin’s presence in the world;a world in need of your Father’s mercy. As your disciples, we also live in hope,confident that your light is breaking throughthe changing moods of life …
Stewardship Saint for October: Saint Luke
Saint Luke Luke is the author of the third Gospel and was a companion of Saint Paul. According to reliable tradition, he was a Syrian physician from Antioch who wrote his Gospel in Achaea (Greece). Both the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles are attributed to Luke, because he appears to be the person …
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Stewardship Saint for September: Saint Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul The feast day of Saint Vincent de Paul is September 27, the date of his passing in 1660. He was the founder of the Vincentians and the Sisters of Charity, and is the patron saint of all charitable organizations. Born in 1581 to a peasant family in southwestern France, Vincent studied …
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ICSC September Stewardship Prayer
Stewardship Prayer Heavenly Father,September is a month that offers hopefor things to come:our daily life has a new rhythm,there are new beginningsand new encounters,and a new energy is seen in theparish community. In this month of accelerating activities,keep us mindful that we live for Christand not for ourselves.Give us the strength andthe wisdom to be“Doers” …
Stewardship Saint for August: Saint Clare of Assisi
Clare of Assisi was a close friend of Saint Francis of Assisi and the foundress of the Poor Clares. She was born in Assisi in 1194 and at age 18 was so moved by the Lenten sermons of Francis that she renounced all of her possessions and entered a convent, much to the dissatisfaction of …
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