Engagement and Development
BAA totals for our Parish as of Thursday June 15 as reported by the Diocese:
2023 Campaign (7/15/23) 2022 Campaign (6/30/22)
Goal: $473,565 $509,088
Pledge Total: $471,991 99.5% $459,567 90.3%
Received Total: $448,368 94.7% $435,917 85.6%
Participating Families: 1129 20.5% 1100 21.6%
Total Families: 5,500 5,100
To-Go: $2,574
What is Called & Gifted? The Called & Gifted™ Discernment Process has been used since 1993 by over 200,000 lay, ordained, and religious Catholics and other Christians around the world. It is designed to help Christians discern the presence of charisms in their lives. Charisms, or spiritual gifts, are special abilities given to all Christians by the Holy Spirit to give them power both to represent Christ and to be a channel of God’s goodness for people. Whether extraordinary or ordinary, all charisms ought to be exercised in the service of God (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2003). All three parts of the process are necessary for discovering where you are gifted.
Part One is the Called and Gifted workshop, which lays the foundation for the beginning of discernment. During the initial Called & Gifted workshop series the participants will take the Catholic Spiritual Gifts Inventory.
Part Two is the one hour gifts interview, an invaluable part of the process.
Part Three helps you begin discernment in the real world. It will teach you how to:
develop charism experiments
evaluate your results
identify ways you learned to control life as a child that get in the way of using your charisms as an adult.
- Called and Gifted Interview with Sherry Weddell
- Called and Gifted video Interview with Jacob House
- Charism Video – part of the KBL series
- Charisms – Which One are You?
Why should I look into the Called & Gifted experience?
• Have you ever felt a true sense of joy and energy when doing something?
• Are there times when you just jump in to help someone complete a task?
• Do people tell you “you’re a good listener”?
• Do you love to read, gather knowledge and feel joy in sharing that knowledge?
These are just some simple examples of how the Holy Spirit maybe alive in you and calling you to a deeper relationship with Jesus and those around you.
Curious to learn more?
When is the Next Called & Gifted Class?
We will post the schedule as soon as we have scheduled the next program.