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Thursday, January 5
FEAST OF JOHN NEUMANN, BISHOP
Stewardship makes for a seasoned leader
There’s a time to build and a time to tear down, the Book of Ecclesiastes says. Bishop John Neumann led the diocese of Philadelphia in the 1850s, a time of explosive growth in the immigrant Catholic population in the U.S. Under his leadership the number of Catholic schools increased from 1 to 200 and on average a new parish opened every month! We live in another era, one in which Catholic schools and parishes are being consolidated, closed, or otherwise changed in many parts of the nation. Each age calls for different gifts but good stewardship is never out of season. Pray that church leaders will be good and faithful stewards of the great legacy entrusted to their care.
TODAY’S READINGS: 1 John 3:11-21; John 1:43-51 (208)
“You will see greater things than this.”
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