We love you for safeguarding the Truths of our Catholic Faith and for bearing upon Your shoulders the sufferings of the Church. God grant you many years!
As you know by now, we will have three bells in our new tower, the largest is named Maria Gaudens, the middle bell is named Saint Joseph and the baby bell is Little Saint John. They will be rung for five minutes before all of the Masses of Saturday evening and Sunday. We will need lots of bell ringers and this is where you come in. What a beautiful thing it will be to ring the bells and to know that their music is welcoming your fellow Catholics to the Holy Mass.
If you want to be a bell ringer, I ask you to attend one practice session during which you will be given all the information that you will need to know. We have scheduled two different sessions, so you pick the one that best fits in with your schedule. The practices will be on Monday, May 3rd, at 7:00 pm and on Thursday, May 6th, at 7:00 pm. We will meet in the vestibule and then as a group will go into our newly renovated church. See you there!
The new church will have within it a control room in which the sound system can be adjusted during the weekend Masses. This will allow everyone to better hear both the music and the spoken word. We need volunteers to help! Don’t worry, we will teach you everything that you’ll need to know. For more information, give Joe Crotty a call at 303-439-0145.
Third Quarter
High Honor Roll
Straight A’s with no more than one B
Religion, Reading, Math, English, Spelling, Social Stud-ies, Science, Spanish, Music, Computer, P.E., and Art
Grade 6
Ben Bettinger
Remember when we were little and we’d go up to our parents complaining of a painful leg, or arm? They’d look carefully at the offending limb, and if they could find no obvious reason for the aches, they’d cheer us up with the words: “Don’t worry, it’ll go away, it’s just growing pains.” And we’d go back to our games almost proud of the fact that we were growing! And being “grown up” was all that we wanted. Growing up was our goal, because after we grew up we could do everything that we wanted, right?
Who has not heard of the attacks against our beloved Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, that have made this past Lent a true Pilgrimage in the Desert for him? The Lord has called him to the most difficult “job” in the world, that of showing His face, His love and His mercy to the whole world, and to shepherd His flock. Just as they attacked Jesus, the world is attacking the Pope, we should not be surprised. Our job, as the flock, is to pray for the Holy Father, because only with God’s help can he bear the great cross that he is carrying on his shoulders. Here is a novena that the Knights of Columbus are asking all Catholics to pray, beginning today, Divine Mercy Sunday. I encourage everyone to pray it faithfully, for the full nine days, until April 19, which is the 5th anniversary of his election to the pontificate.
PRAYER FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI
Opening Prayer: Lord, source of eternal life and truth, give to Your shepherd, Pope Benedict, a spirit of courage and right judgment, a spirit of knowledge and love. By governing with fidelity those entrusted to his care, may he, as successor to the Apostle Peter and Vicar of Christ, build Your Church into a sacrament of unity, love and peace for all the world. Amen
Intercession: Let us pray for Benedict, the Pope
Response: May the Lord preserve him, give him long life, make him blessed upon the earth, and not hand him over to the power of his enemies.
Intercession: May Your hand be upon Your holy servant.
Response: And upon your son, Pope Benedict, whom You have anointed.
Conclusion: Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be…
Only Five more Weeks until the Masses of Thanksgiving in our Newly Renovated Church on May 15 & 16! Have you signed up to be a bell ringer or to help run the new sound booth during Mass? Sign up forms to be a bell ringer are in the vestibule of the Fr. Puhl Center. If you wish to help run the sound booth, give the parish office a call for more information.
Butter Braid Success
Thank you to all parishioners who participated in this year’s butter braid sale. It was a huge success and brought in over $3,500 in profit. If you ordered butter braids from a Holy Trinity student or just directly from the school, thank you. A few school families deserve special recognition this year as they played a huge part in this year’s success. A huge thank you to Alexis Garcia and her family for selling 95 butter braids! Other mega-sellers were Meghan & Shannon Walker (42), Giannah Barela (42), Giselle & Vanessa Zamora (38), and Mia Lobato (33).
A few weeks ago, we read the Gospel of the woman caught in adultery. The leaders, wishing to “kill two birds with one stone,” (Jesus and the woman) tried to trick Jesus into condemning the adulteress, almost taking pleasure in “catching” someone in wrongdoing, enjoying the sense of power that their “superiority” gave them. We all know what our Lord did. He let them speak and then shamed them all with the words: “Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone.” Everyone left, probably with a red face. Probably quite a few of them had committed adultery, but had never been caught. If anyone had the right to cast the first stone it was certainly Jesus: He had no sin! But He simply looked at the woman with His kind eyes and said: “Did no one condemn you? Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
When we make use of the Sacrament of Confession we bring to Jesus our sorrow for sin, and He brings to us the Father’s forgiveness. There is no greater sign of God’s love for us. During Holy Week we’ve added these extra Confession times to our regular schedule:
- Monday, March 29, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
- Tuesday, March 30, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
- Holy Thursday, April 1, beginning at 8:30 pm (at the conclusion of the 7:00 pm Mass)
