As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace. (1 Pt 4:10)

Following Jesus is the work of a lifetime. With every step forward, one is challenged to go further in accepting and loving God's will. Being a disciple in not just something else to do alongside many other things suitable for Christians. It is a total way of life and requires continuing conversion.

Stewardship plays an important role in the lives of people who seek to follow Christ. In particular, as we have said, Christians must be stewards of their personal vocations, for it is these that show how, according to circumstances of their individual lives, God wants them to cherish and serve a broad range of interests and concerns. Those include life and health, our own intellectual and spiritual well being and that of others; material goods and resources; the natural environment; the cultural heritage of humankind - indeed, the whole rich panoply of human goods, both those already realized and those whose realization depends upon the present generation or upon generations yet to come. Catholics have a duty, too, to be stewards of their church: that community of disciples, that Body of Christ, of which they, individually and together, are members, and in which "if one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy" (1 Cor 12:26).

Source: Stewardship, A Disciple's Response (a pastoral letter about stewardship).