4TH MONTHLY

• Stewardship


  Our willingness to serve without accounting the cost and without expecting anything in return
• Values of stewardship

  • Give
  • Serve
  • Attend
  • Grow
• The 7 Works of Spiritual Mercy

  • Instruct the Ignorant
  • Counsel the doubtful
  • Admonish Sinners
  • Forgive Offenses
  • Comfort the afflicted
  • Bear Wrongs patiently
  • Pray for the living and the dead
• Jesus Christ is our model of service and stewardship
• No Person is an Island - no one is truly self-sufficient, everyone must rely on the company and comfort of others in order to thrive
• Grace


  The spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine favour in the salvation of sinners, and the divine influence operating in individuals for their regeneration and sanctification
• Grace cannot be earned; it is something that is freely given
• Divine Grace


  The divine influence which operates in humans to regenerate and sanctify
• The 5 types of grace

  • Saving Grace
  • Sanctifying Grace
  • Strengthening Grace
  • Sharing Grace
  • Serving Grace
• The 5 spiritual graces

  • Sight
  • Sound
  • Touch
  • Smell
  • Taste
• The ten commandments are a list of religious precepts that, according to passages exodus and deuteronomy, were divinely revealed to Moses by Yahweh
• The ten commandments are also called the decalogue
• Fourth Commandment


  Honor your father and mother
• 'Maundy'


  Comes from the Latin word mandatum, reflecting Jesus' words 'I give you a new commandment'