Have you considered giving your child or grandchild the gift of a Catholic education? New enrollments start soon, so I encourage you to give a call to the school office for more information.
Open House
Holy Trinity Catholic School
Sunday, January 31
12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
- Tour the school
- Meet our teachers
- Get Registration Materials
- Have your Questions Answered
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2nd Year CONFIRMATION
2° año de Confirmación
January 24th **NOTE TIME CHANGES**
- Class 2:30-4:15pm
- Mandatory Parent/Teen Retreat Meeting 4:14-5:30pm
- Please read newsletter for details.
January 31st NO CLASS
February 2nd Mass & Class 11am-2pm
We are half-way through the Year of the Priest that our beloved Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed on June 19, 2009. He did not proclaim it to glorify priests or bishops or himself. He proclaimed it to ask for our prayers on behalf of those whom God had chosen as His priests, and to reflect of what the gift of the priesthood means to us. Then, when we realize what a great gift the priesthood is, we will thank the Giver of such a precious gift.
On July 25, 1968, Pope Paul VI published a long-anticipated and very controversial Encyclical: Humanae Vitae (On Human Life). At the time, the Church looked at the meaning of human sexuality, particularly the morality of artificial contraception, in light of scientific developments that had successfully separated the sexual act from procreation. After much discussion, at times heated, theologians disagreed. The Holy Father, carefully sifting all the relevant information guided by the Holy Spirit, strengthened by his payer life and conscious of his God-given duty to guide the Church according to His will, decided on the side of life. He was immediately scorned and vilified. Almost 42 years later we know that Paul VI saw the future with divine insight. The Encyclical starts with the Christian vision of marriage:
2010-2011 Registration
Serving Holy Trinity parish families is our priority. As demand for our school has grown the past few years it has become increasingly important for Holy Trinity parish families to register promptly to ensure their children a place in the school.
This upcoming year our school will have only one kindergarten of no more than 25 students. Parish families wanting a spot in that class should act quickly when new parent registration begins Monday, March 1. In previous years we have offered two kindergartens and served about 35 students, however this year there will be only one kindergarten class. Registered families of Holy Trinity Parish will have first priority for school placement on March 1. Families may turn in enrollment materials as early as February 15. They will be notified March 1, if they have been placed in a class or on the waiting list. After March 1, all students will be enrolled on a first-come, first-serve basis in classes with less than 25 students enrolled.
2nd Year CONFIRMATION
2° año de Confirmación
January 17th Mass & Class 11am-2pm
January 24th **NOTE TIME CHANGES**
- Class 2:30-4:15pm
- Retreat Meeting 4:14-5:30pm
- Please read newsletter for details.
January 31st NO CLASS
This is a true story narrated, by the most part, from Carla’s perspective, because she was my aunt, and I’d known her all of my life. She was the eighth of the ten surviving children of my mother’s parents, and she was different. First: along with their great love and knowledge of the Catholic Faith, my grandparents bestowed a greater-than-average degree of good looks on their children… all of them, that is, except for Carla. In other families, she would probably not have stood out, but next to her siblings, you definitely noticed that her face was over-long, her nose a bit large, her hair sparse and stringy and her lips definitely too thin. Second: Carla loved to study. Now, her siblings were not slouches: they were all smart and did very well in school, but Carla’s life, her passion, was study.
We conclude the Christmas season by celebrating this weekend the Baptism of our Lord Jesus at the hands of Saint John the Baptist.
Thirty years have passed since the Three Kings came to Bethlehem with their gifts. Saint John has attracted the Jewish people by the thousands through his fiery preaching and is baptizing all the people of Israel who come to him with a “Baptism of Repentance”. What does this mean?
Why would a young man want to become a priest? Listen to what Pope John Paul II once said: “… a man offers his humanity to Christ, so that Christ may use him as an instrument of salvation, making him, as it were, into another Christ. Unless we grasp the mystery of this ‘exchange,’ we will not understand how it can be that a young man, hearing the words ‘Follow me’ can give up everything for Christ, in the certainty that if he follows this path he will find complete personal fulfillment. In our world, is there any greater fulfillment of our humanity than to be able to re-present every day in ‘persona Christi’ [in the person of Christ] the redemptive sacrifice, the same sacrifice [that] Christ offered on the Cross?” (Gift and Mystery, 1999)
I am very excited about the increasing number of fine young men who are entering studies for the priesthood at our new seminary. Our young people need your prayers that they will be generous to God’s will when they ask Him what it is that He wants them to do with their lives. My prayer is that, in the near future, the entire Archdiocese of Denver will be filled with new priests whose vocations were nurtured and confirmed at Holy Trinity and our other communities of faith across our Archdiocese!
