Good Steward Newsletter – May 2013
May 1, 2013 by O'Meara Ferguson
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Bitter Tears in the Season of Easter Joy If God the Father almighty, the Creator of the ordered and good world, cares for all his creatures, why does evil exist? To this question, as pressing as it is unavoidable and as painful as it is mysterious, no quick answer will suffice. Only Christian faith as [...]
Good Steward Newsletter – February 2013
February 1, 2013 by O'Meara Ferguson
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Angels Are Evangelizers and Good Stewards of All God’s Creation Angels have been present since creation and throughout the history of salvation, announcing this salvation from afar or near and serving the accomplishment of the divine plan…They protect Jesus in his infancy, serve him in the desert, strengthen him in his agony in the garden…Again, [...]
Good Steward Newsletter – January 2013
January 7, 2013 by O'Meara Ferguson
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Stewardship is a Response in Faith to the Lord’s Invitation Jesus’ disciples and Christian stewards recognize God as the origin of life, giver of freedom, and source of all things. We are grateful for the gifts we have received and are eager to use them to show our love for God and for one another. [...]
Good Steward Newsletter – December 2012
December 4, 2012 by O'Meara Ferguson
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Advent’s Three Stages of Longing Bishop Robert F. Morneau, a pastor, poet and ardent Green Bay Packers’ fan, writes in the December issue of Give Us This Day: Daily Prayer for Today’s Catholic, “Advent celebrates God’s multiple comings into our lives.” The bishop then identifies Advent’s three stages: 1) Jesus’ historic birth in Bethlehem, 2) [...]
Good Steward Newsletter – November 2012
November 1, 2012 by O'Meara Ferguson
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We Are All Called to be Secret Saints On November 1st we celebrate the Feast of All Saints—not just the saints who’ve been officially recognized through the Church’s very thorough process of canonization, but all the saints. All Saints includes those women and men whose faith is known to God alone and whose courage, integrity [...]
Good Steward Newsletter – October 2012
October 1, 2012 by O'Meara Ferguson
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Faith, Religious Liberty and Human Suffering The salvation of the world does not come, in the final analysis, from a transformation of the world or a political system that sets itself up as absolute and divine. We must, indeed, go on working to transform the world, soberly, realistically, patiently, humanely. But mankind has a demand [...]
Good Steward Newsletter – September 2012
September 7, 2012 by O'Meara Ferguson
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The Year of Faith, Celebrating What We Do and What We Believe All the good things the Church does flows from who we are, the faith we have which provides us our very identity. We do good stuff precisely because of our faith. – Timothy Cardinal Dolan We’d like to believe that, by now, every [...]
Good Steward Newsletter – August 2012
August 1, 2012 by O'Meara Ferguson
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Senseless Violence, Painful and Confusing for All After praying the Angelus today (Sunday, July 22), the Holy Father spoke of his profound shock at “the senseless disaster which took place in Aurora, Colorado” earlier that day. “I share the distress of the families and friends of the victims and injured, especially the children,” Pope Benedict [...]
Good Steward Newsletter – July 2012
July 9, 2012 by O'Meara Ferguson
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Celebrating a Year of Faith The Year of Faith is a celebration by the entire Catholic Church that begins October 1, 2012—the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church— and concludes November 14, 2013, the feast of Christ the King. Pope [...]
A Land of Missionaries, Immigrants and Saints
June 15, 2012 by O'Meara Ferguson
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Tertium Quid – Vol. 3, Issue 2 – June 8, 2012 Written by Archbishop José H. Gomez (May 4, 2012) Introduction below by John Klink – Managing Director, O’Meara Ferguson (printable version) In his recent article which follows, Archbishop Jose Gomez as a good pastor, and Chair of the U.S. Bishops’ Migration Committee, is appropriately [...]
