The Parish

St. Julie Billiart Parish

Into the New Millennium ...

• We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.

• We plant the seeds that one day will grow.

• We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.

• We lay foundations that will need further development.

• We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
  

It may be incomplete, 

• but it is a beginning, 

• a step along the way, 

• an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.

We may never see the end results, 
but that is the difference between the Master Builder and the worker

We are workers, not Master Builders, 
ministers, not Messiahs.

We are prophets of a future that is not our own.

Amen.

Archbishop Oscar Romero

To me, these words of the martyred Archbishop Romero speak so eloquently about what a parish is to be as we enter a new millennium. We commit ourselves to use God's gift of this time to continue the work of Jesus; the work of planting, watering, laying foundations, and providing the yeast, not knowing the end results, but trusting that God's Kingdom will flourish in our midst.

Father Rich Homa

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