November 19, 2025

As we have done for many years, we will be distributing the annual “All In” Report to our parishioners next weekend. You will receive the report via email, and Jason Castelluccio, finance committee chair, will speak (via video) at all the Masses on the highlights. (There will be limited copies in print.)

I, the Staff and the Finance Council provide this report not only by obligation but in order to convey to you the status of our parish ministries and finances, and for engaged reviewing of it by you, our parishioners. It is important for the parish to chronicle and report back to parishioners our progress with various programs and ministries.

While reporting on our financial status is important, I also see this information as an exercise in stewardship since it provides how we as a parish have dedicated our time, our talent, and our treasure, the financial resources of Saint Helen. Stewardship refers to caring for the people and other resources that God has created. In other words, it's caring for something on God's behalf because the act of caring enriches our lives.

The four pillars of stewardship are Hospitality, Prayer, Formation, and Service. These pillars are seen as the key areas for our faith community to live out a life of stewardship, which involves recognizing all gifts as coming from God and responding with gratitude by sharing one's time, talent, and treasure.

I feel we are very much focused on hospitably and being a welcoming and kind community, both within the parish and to those who are new or in need. We focus on prayer as we nurture a relationship with God through personal, family, and communal prayer. We have many ministries focused on formation including continuous learning, growth, and conversion, which involves deepening one's understanding of faith and stewardship. And finally, we use our service ministries to take action to help others less fortunate than ourselves and putting one's faith into practice by using individual gifts to help others and the wider community

As readers, you will hear in the voices and words of parishioners and the impact of the parish and ministry on them and their family. We have much to celebrate at Saint Helen - but we can never grow complacent but ever energized to proclaim and live the Good News, that is the Gospel. The “All In” Report is a time of both accountability as well as celebration. Let us celebrate all we gave achieved this year.

In closing, I also want to remind you that our annual Mass of Anointing, for those who are experiencing suffering in body or mind will take place next Saturday, November 22, 2025, at 12:00 Noon in the Church. This would include those preparing for surgery or the elderly. Let us always keep each other in our prayers, especially the sick and the suffering.

God Bless You All,

Msgr. Tom