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We must be good stewards

Whatever mission one has received in the Mystical Body, one must act as a faithful manager – not as a proprietor – who will have to give an account of his actions. Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming’, and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful (Luke 12:42-46).

Not showing partiality

A good manager knows how to distribute his master’s goods justly. He knows how to make the talents he has received work for the benefit of all the servants, for non est personarum acceptor Deus (Acts 10:34), God shows no partiality towards people.

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