One year ago I celebrated my first masses here at Holy Trinity!  Hard to imagine it has been 12 months!  Partly it seems MUCH longer, and partly it seems like last week.  I’m grateful for a fine year and truly happy being your pastor.  I want to thank you for welcoming me, for trusting me, for being open to my idiosyncrasies (!!), and for your enthusiastic faith.   Now that I have been through an entire year I have a much clearer sense of the inner workings (the soul) of this parish. 

You see me visibly every week, but I know well that being an effective pastor requires a team effort.  Holy Trinity is blessed to have a super staff and I am especially thankful to them as we work closely together. Many of you do not know what goes on here all week long, but I assure you this is one active place!

Our fiscal year goes July 1 thru June 30, so we are just now closing the books for the year and will give you a full report later this month.  Because of your generosity and commitment to our parish this year we were able to pay off our debt on the church, on the parish house, on the Community Outreach modular, and our assessment to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.  We were also able to fund the work on the Park Way driveway, the elevator, the church window tinting, AND still come out ahead of budget!  Very impressive folks. 

Our School Advisory Council, Parish Pastoral Council, and Parish Administrative Council will all be doing some longer range planning beginning next month.  In the past year we registered almost 400 new parishioners.  We have incredible opportunities to move forward and take on ever more fully the mission we have been given by the Lord.  We are expanding our ministries offered through the parish and are looking forward to an exciting year.  Come Holy Spirit!

And, a BIG thanks to Fred, Barbara, and Alex Schulz and their helpers for baking fresh cinnamon rolls for our hospitality sessions after all the morning masses last Sunday.  Well done!  What a treat.  (For those of you who like to plan ahead, the next cinnamon roll weekend will be August 31—and every “5th Sunday of the month following!)

Saturday: 5:30 pm
Sunday: 8:00 am, 9:30 am, 11:15 am
T, Th, Fr: 8:15 main the chapel
W: 8:45 am school mass in the church

Holy Days: 9:00 am, 7:00 pm

Reconciliation
saturday: 4-5 pm