We have begun our Lenten journey for 2024! Perhaps we could take as a theme for this First Sunday of Lent: From the rainbow to the Cross: Renewing our covenant with God.
by (excerpted from https://diojeffcity.org/blog/distributed-posts/lenten-regulations-and-admonitions-fo
The Catholic Church calls all Catholics to a deeper spirit of penance, fasting, almsgiving and prayer, “which express conversion in relation to oneself, to God, and to others” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 1434 and 1969).
Brent Speak offered this stewardship talk at the end of Mass in October, during the kickoff of the annual Catholic Stewardship Renewal. Several parishioners who were at a different Mass that weekend asked for a printed copy of the talk. We thought it might be encouraging to the parish as a whole, so with Brent’s permission, we offer it here.