My parish is composed of people like me.
I will help make it what it is.
It will be friendly, if I am.
It will be holy, if I am
Its pews will be filled, if I help fill them.
It will do great work, if I wiork
It will be prayerful, if I pray.
It will make gererous gifts o many causes, if I am a generous giver.
It will bring others into worship, if I invite and bring them.
It will be a parish of loyalty and love, of fearllessness, and faith, and of compassion.
it will be la parish of loyalty and love, of fearlessness, and faith, of compassion.
charity adn mercy, if I, who make it waht is, am filled with these same things.
Therefore, with the help of God, I now dedicate myself to the task of being all things that I want my parish to be. - Amen.