The Divine Mercy Novena is a beautiful devotion which highlights the salvation which Jesus Christ won for mankind through His saving death upon the cross. It is a confident cry for God’s Mercy: “For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world”! We have pamphlets available at the church entrances that explain the Divine Mercy Chaplet. I encourage you to pray the Novena of Divine Mercy as a family in your homes. The nine day Novena to the Divine Mercy begins on Good Friday, and ends on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday, April 19th.
It is an old tradition to serve Hot Cross Rolls on Spy Wednesday, the day before Holy Thursday, in honor of the Cross of Jesus. Join us for Hot Cross Rolls and coffee in the Overflow after the 8:00 am Mass.
Registrations for new families for the 2009-2010 school year are ongoing. We have approximately 217 students enrolled for next year. Here is the latest update on class availability:
- Preschool 1 space remaining
- Kindergarten: 4 spaces remaining
- Grade 1: Closed – Waiting List
- Grade 2: Closed – Waiting List
- Grade 3: Closed – Waiting List
- Grade 4: 3 spaces remaining
- Grade 5: Closed – Waiting List
- Grade 6: 7 spaces remaining
- Grade 7: 5 spaces remaining
- Grade 8: 7 spaces remaining
CrossOver
Middle School Youth/Secundaria
April 8th Class 6:30-7:45pm
April 15th Class 6:30-7:45pm
April 22 Class 6:30-7:45pm
Discipleship
High School Youth/Preparatoria
April 7th Youth Center 6:30-8:30pm
April 14th Youth Center 6:30-8:30pm
April 21st Youth Center 6:30-8:30pm
“The Rock”
2nd year CONFIRMATION
2° año CONFIRMACIÓN
April 12th NO CLASS *HAPPY EASTER*
April 19th Mass & Class 11:00am-2:00 pm
April 25th Service Day 9:00am-1:00pm Drop Off & Pick Up @ Mother Cabrini
April 26th Class & Prayer Day 11am-5pm
April 27th Confirmation Interviews More details to come
Now that we are done with Catholic Calisthenics, let’s go over a few points of “etiquette.” As I mentioned last week, those of us with a few gray hairs remember kinder, gentler times. When kids used to call grown ups “Mr.” and “Mrs.,” when four letter words were not part of the vocabulary, let alone routine part of the dialogue on radio, TV and in movies. So, as I said, let’s go over a few points of etiquette, because it would be awful if good manners became extinct! And no, good manners are not “old fashioned.” Here’s a refresher course on good-old Catholics do’s and don’ts.
I just pushed out some changes for the website that were a mix of small enhancements and bug fixes. The most notable ones are the ‘Mass Service Schedule’ block style and the addition of the ‘Catholic Resources’ block in the right sidebar. The ‘Mass Service Schedule’ block is better, but still needs some work – look for another update to it sometime next week. Also, there is now a map for the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel. If you see any problems or find bugs please leave a comment so I can log it and fix.
Tonight, just after midnight, about half of the bulletin stories will publish. Currently, I am just putting the Pastor’ Page, School News, Youth, and Religious Education material from the bulletin online weekly. You can view all of the bulletins in PDF format here. Enjoy!
Welcome to the new Holy Trinity Catholic Church & School website. The website remodel has been brewing for two years and is finally done. The new website is a blog style design with a top main navigation and right sidebar secondary navigation to supplement the main navigation. The emphasis is on information presentation with weekly posts about parish activities and events of a time critical nature. In the near term the WebTeam will focus on improving the visual appearance and fixing any latent bugs. We are interested in your feedback on how it looks and what can be improved and/or any problems you found. Feel free to leave a comment to this post and it will show up shortly as we moderate all comments to insure prudent responses.
WebTeam is comprised of the following members:
- Rick Balzen – Network and Server Administration
- Troy Bettinger – Webmaster Church Renovation website
- Joseph Crotty – Webmaster Holy Trinity website
- Dennis Mohr – Creative Direction/Lead
Feel free to contact any of us with ideas for content and improvements. Also, to everyone who made the old website tick a big thank you!
Bowing
Hopefully, we have covered most of “Holy Mass basics,” but occasionally people see us Catholics do “strange” things, such as bowing, crossing ourselves, etc.
In an attempt to include all of our “exercises,” let’s go over bowing because, of all of our practices, this seems to be the most misunderstood. But, if we stop and think about it, bowing is a sign of respect, and when we see it that way, then everything else will make sense.
When going to confession this Lent, we ask the loving God to restore us to grace through the forgiveness of sins. To help you, we have added some extra Confession times to our regular schedule this week, here they are:
- Friday, March 27, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
- Monday, March 30, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
- Monday, April 6, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
- Tuesday, April 7, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
The last two weeks of Lent are called Passiontide because the readings and prayers for the Holy Mass draw our attention in a very intense way to the Passion and Death of our Savior Jesus. The church building itself is in mourning and the veiling of all of the familiar objects of devotion helps us to concentrate upon the great essentials of Christ’s work of Redemption.
The custom veiling the statues probably finds it’s origins in Germany, where from the ninth century, a large cloth was hung in front of the entire altar area throughout Lent. This cloth, called the “Hungertuch” (hunger cloth), hid the altar entirely from view during Lent and was not removed until during the reading of the Passion on Holy Thursday at the words “the veil of the temple was rent in two.”
As we look upon our church, shrouded and sad, may our minds dwell in gratitude upon the Passion of Jesus by which He won salvation for us, and may our hearts swell with deeper love for Him who died for love of us.
