A workshop to build skills for peaceful living in the family, the parish, and the larger community. Responding to Jesus’ call to be peacemakers, we will look at ways to significantly improve our relationships with family, friends, co-workers, and strangers.

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In the early 1600’s the French province of Touraine led the revival and renewal of the Carmelite Order. It was a belated reform based on the prayer system of Teresa of Avila, and a recovery from the ghastly Wars of Religion in France. With good leadership and holy writers like John of St. Samson, the…

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The story of the dishonest steward in Luke 13 is baffling on one level as Jesus seems to commend the man for cheating his master. It’s not his dishonesty that Jesus praises, but his clever strategy of doing favors for his master’s creditors in the hope that they might do him some favors in return…

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Parish Stewardship “A Christian Steward is one who receives God’s gifts gratefully, cherishes and tends them in a responsible and accountable manner, shares them in justice and love with others, and returns them with increase to the Lord.” ~ USCCB Pastoral Letter on Stewardship Everything is a gift It is on this premise the foundation…

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