About Us

We draw our strength and love for this stewardship way of life from the Eucharist, Christ’s body and blood, soul and divinity.

“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God,
and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16)

These words, from the First Letter of John, express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian Faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny. In the same verse, St. John also offers a kind of summary of the Christian life: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.” Jesus united into a single precept this commandment of love for God and the commandment of love for neighbor found in the Book of Leviticus: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (19:18; cf Mk 12:29-31). Since God has first loved us (cf. 1 Jn 4:10), love is now no longer a mere “command”; it is the response to the gift of love with which God draws near to us. – Pope Benedict XVI – God is Love [Deus Caritas Est]

God’s first and greatest gift of love to all is the gift of life. As we live out this gift, we must love God, believe what He has revealed, and keep His law.

Keeping God’s law by loving God and loving thy neighbor as thyself entails keeping the commandments of God and the Church, and performing the spiritual and corporal works of mercy as we hear in I John 3:18: “My dear children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.”

Within our growing secular culture, there is an ever-increasing sense of “expectation” on the part of individuals, families, etc.

There is this growing expectation of receiving something with no sense of obligation, responsibility, sharing, or related faith response in thanksgiving. This expectation reflects a lack of understanding, recognition and acceptance that all that I am, all that I have and all that I ever will be is gift from a loving God, and that I have a moral obligation, according to my God-given talents and grace, to respond as we hear in 1 Pt 4:10: “As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace.”

We invite you
into our parish family and
hope your
participation in our parish
will deepen
your understanding
of God,
His love for you
and His dream
for your life.