Our Spiritual Gym - Fr. Gregory - November 2, 2025

This Sunday is our parish's Stewardship Sunday, and in his homily, Fr. Gregory addresses almsgiving as one of the three pillars of our spiritual life alongside prayer and fasting. He focuses on two ideas: first, how the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in today’s Gospel reading exposes what happens when we neglect these pillars, especially almsgiving, and second, how we can make a simple, practical plan for our own stewardship.To reinforce the importance of almsgiving, Fr. Gregory presents the analogy of the church as a spiritual gym in which we exercise our three major muscle groups of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. The spiritual gym gives us everything we need to become fit for the Kingdom of God, but we must be disciplined in our training.