MINISTRY OBJECTIVES 

(1) To help us be more aware of and to embrace the actual living out of Our Lord's Sermon on The Mount (Mt. 5-7) in our own lives as the essential and saving good news in our time and culture. 

(2) To help us be more awakened, in a gentle, loving, and truthful way to the realization of how we the baptized have watered down the Gospel of our Lord Jesus by modernizing our Christianity and in effect creating God in our own image. 

(3) To help us continue to building our faith and trust in God so that we are as able to see His wisdom and plan for our lives right in the middle of our pain and agony as we are in the middle of our peace and joy. 

(4) To help us recognize more how we the baptized are called to be part of the solution to the challenges of the poor and needy of the world. We are to embrace detachment and simplicity in the totality of our own lives by acknowledging that we hold all things, over and above our daily needs, in trust as God's stewards for the benefit of all our brothers and sister of the one God our Father. 

(5) To help us fully acknowledge that is only in the affirming of mercy, compassion and forgiveness within the context of our own lives that we, the victims of sin, maltreatment and crime, will be able to model the nonviolent agape love of Our Lord Jesus in this our troubled world. 

(6) To help us begin to realize what the Sacraments really mean in our lives and how we are called not just to receive them but to live them out in the full expression of our lives from day to day. 

(7) To help us the laity be more challenged by the knowledge of our right and duty as baptized and confirmed Christians to live out our faith in word and in deed. This brings the saving good news of Our Lord into the market place and secular world in which we spend our lives. 

(8) To help us fully recognize that it is only in our humility and obedience to sacred Tradition, sacred Scripture and Magisterial teaching that we will be able to embrace and live the sacredness of human sexuality and married love which lie at the very foundation of the family and of the society in which we live.