4215 PINE ROAD NE BREMERTON 98310 Mission Statement: We, the Roman Catholic www.htcbremerton.org community who gather at Holy Trinity Parish, Email: [email protected] are committed to the worship of God, the building Archdiocese: www.seattlearchdiocese.org of community and service to others by proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We do this Parish Office 377-7674 because we are loved by God and empowered by Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs. & Fri.: the Holy Spirit to share in Jesus’ mission. 9:00am - 12:00pm, 1:15pm - 4:30pm. Wed.: 9:00am-10:30am, 1:00pm-4:30pm. Weekend Mass Schedule

Parish Staff Saturday: 5:00pm (Vigil) Pastoral Coordinator: Veronica Kelley Sunday: 9:45am, 11:30am [email protected] Ext. 228 Weekday Masses: Wed., Thurs., Fri: 9:00am Parish Priests: Sacrament of Reconciliation Fr. Jack Buckalew (Pastor Emeritus) Ext. 220 By appointment only Fr David Gese Sacrament of Baptism (Infants) Fr Dennis Sevilla Registration for Baptism preparation classes can Deacons: be arranged by calling the Faith Formation office. Henry Miner [email protected] Parents must attend and sponsors are encouraged John Amlag [email protected] to attend.

Administrator: Desiree Olmo Ext. 211 Sacrament of Marriage [email protected] Please contact the parish office at least six months Latino Ministry: Ernesto Castro in advance of any proposed wedding date to make [email protected] arrangements for marriage preparation. Outreach: Kathy Warcup Ext. 229 Annulments [email protected] Tribunal-Advocates are available to help you find Parish Secretaries: healing from the pain of divorce and convalidation Karen Holladay Ext. 210 of a new marriage in the church. For more [email protected] information, please call the Parish Office. Diana Brown Ext. 212 Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick [email protected] Please call the parish office as soon as possible to arrange for the celebration of this sacrament for Faith Formation Office (360)479-9525 those seriously ill or in danger of death. Mon. - Wed.: 10:00am - 4:30pm Funeral/Christian Burial Sun.: 8:00am - 3:30pm Arrangements with Parish Office must be

Faith Formation: Marilou Marcotte Ext. 216 completed before setting a date and time [email protected] for the service.

Youth /Young Adult: Lois May Ext. 217 [email protected] Secretary: Margie Velez Ext. 215 [email protected]

Library: [email protected] SICK: David Murphy, Jennifer Larson, Josie Roque, Mary Booher, Rodora Rosas. Prayer Chain Requests Darlene Paul (360)692-9351 DECEASED: Bayani Essedencia. Doris Chavez

If you are new to Holy Trinity parish, The Faith Formation Office will be closed we warmly welcome you. till Sunday January 3, 2021. Registration forms are available in the We would like to wish everyone a Merry parish office during the week. Christmas and a Blessed New Year.

December 27 & January 3, 2021

YEAR-END CHARITABLE GIVING END OF THE YEAR TAX REMINDER

At this time of the year, many of us have given Any donations you want credited to the 2020 thoughtful consideration to the gifts that we have calendar year for taxes MUST be in the parish given to loved ones and friends for Christmas. We office or postmarked by December 31, 2020. have also tried to make those gifts special End-of-the-year tax statements will be mailed in because of all that we have been through in this mid-January to all who contributed at least $200. pandemic year. As the end of the tax year If you contributed less than that amount, but approaches, we would ask you to prayerfully would still like a tax statement, please contact consider making a special gift of treasure to Diana at 360-377-7674. Also if you have moved or provide the needed financial support for the day- have a different mailing address, please let us to-day operating expenses of our parish, all of its know. For your contributions for the Annual ministries and services, and charitable outreach Catholic Appeal and/or the Called to Christ inside and outside our community. Like many Campaign, please contact the archdiocese at 206- parishes, we have been diligent in stewarding our 382-4274. If you have any questions, please financial resources for many reasons due to the do not hesitate to contact us. THANK YOU! pandemic. Did you know that under the CARES Act, COLLECTION REPORT taxpayers who do not itemize deductions may FISCAL YEAR JULY 2020 TO JULY 2021 take a charitable deduction of up to $300 for an individual and up to $600 for couples for Collection needed per Sunday...... $ 13,115.38 contributions made in 2020? In addition, IRA Collection 12/15 – 12/21/2020...... $ 10,759.00 donors who are at least 70.5 years of age can Yearly Budget...... $682,000.00 make a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) Year-To-Date Collection...... $314,303.45 directly to the parish from a qualified IRA. The Budget Shortfall...... -$ 13,581.05 gift can be counted towards a minimum Parish Charity Fund...... $ 50.00 distribution, though it is not tax deductible and cannot be counted as income. What a wonderful CHURCH way this might be to bless our parish community DECEMBER 30 THRUJANUARY 3 in the New Year ahead. You can make a gift by Wed. 9:00 AM Dorothy Holtsnider...... RIP dropping it in the collection basket or mail slot in Thu. 9:00 AM Sally Ang...... INT the parish office, or by going on-line to our parish Fri. 9:00 AM ...... Parish Intentions...... website. If you have any questions, please call the Sat. 5:00 PM Margie & Monty Walker...... RIP parish office so that we may assist you. We thank Sun. 9:45 AM Dolores Gehlhausen...... RIP all of those who have so generously supported our 11:30 AM William Armstrong...... RIP parish. We are blessed because of you! May you, JANUARY 6 THRU JANUARY 10 in turn, be blessed with all that you most need in Wed. 9:00 AM Roberto Manzilla...... RIP this New Year that lies ahead. Thu. 9:00 AM Margie Walker...... RIP Fri. 9:00 AM Baby Pavlicek...... RIP STEWARDSHIP 2021 Sat. 5:00 PM Tom Marso...... RIP We are grateful to the parish families who have Sun. 9:45 AM Beverly Reitnauer...... INT returned a Stewardship of Treasure Commitment 11:30 AM Angie Kusman...... INT

Pledge Card. This time more than ever, due to COVID, we are way below our regular collection. All of us here at the parish, priests, Our budget for the fiscal year is $682,000 so we still need all our parish families to pray about their deacons and staff send our thanks for all commitment and turn in a pledge card as soon as the gifts, cards and goodies received possible. Your generosity supports our church and during this blessed season. We will its many ministries, your fellow parishioners and keep you all in our prayers for your community. Thank you for your faithful blessed days ahead for the New Year support! The Gift of Family What a year it has been! How will we speak of these times a decade from now? As time goes by, our impressions of this past year will certainly change. How we feel today about dealing with a killer virus and all the chaos surrounding that is still fresh for all. I would assume that most of us right now are also holding those we love a little closer and hugging them a little harder. Hopefully, even if the fears and concerns of 2020 dissipate in the future, the way we feel toward our family should never leave us. Stewardship is certainly about everything. God has given us so much, great and small, profound and common. One of the greatest gifts that all have received is family. Families take all shapes and sizes and some look very different than others. For some, family is a caretaker or temporary guardian. For others it is a friend when everyone else seems to have vanished. The bottom line is that, to quote a song from many years ago, “people need people.” When God gave the world His only Son, the Incarnation did not come on a cloud or with a flash of light. He was born into a family. Jesus understood the gift of family all his life. Do you think that if having a family wasn’t important God would have still included this in the plan of salvation? As this year draws to a close, remember your stewardship many days begins and ends with the people closest to you. Don’t misuse or take for granted this precious gift. God gives us gifts on purpose, even to His only begotten Son. — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR VIRTUAL RETREATS COMING TO HOLY TRINITY IN JANUARY 2021 January 16, 2021 10am to Noon “Speaking Across the Divides” with Jan Alkire This is open to all parish members, men and women, who are seeking a pathway through the current divide among many. We will learn skills that will help us to hear one another, find common ground, and move forward while still honoring each other’s differences. Sign up with Lois in the Faith Formation Office: [email protected] / 360-479-9525 ext 217

January 23, 2021, 10am to Noon “Seeking Christ Through Friendship” with Jan Alkire Women’s Annual Retreat --- As we journey through life it is so important to have friends/companions who walk with us on the road. Including God in a friendship with another adds an even deeper dimension to your “spiritual SUNDAY’S companionship”. Join us as we learn ways to develop this relationship more SCRIPTURE READINGS intentionally. Sign up with Lois May in the Faith Formation Office: [email protected] or call 360-479-9525 ext. 217 JANUARY 3 Jan Alkire, is a local Catholic author, speaker, and retreat leader

ST who has a deep desire to help people to experience God wherever they are 1 READING: ISAIAH 60:1-6 and whatever their need. Jan has been a guest speaker a number of times at RESPONSE PSM: 72:1-2,7-8,10-11,12-13 our Annual Women’s Retreats in the past and so we are looking forward to 2ND READING: EPHESIANS 3:2-3A,5-6 her sharing more insights with us. Check out her website at: www.janalkire.com GOSPEL: MATTHEW 2:1-12 JANUARY 10 1ST READING: ISAIAH 42:1-4, 6-7 RESPONSE PSM: 29:1-2,3-4,9-10 2ND READING: ACTS 10:34-38 GOSPEL: MARK 1:7-11 FROM THE PASTORAL COORDINATOR’S DESK Christmas 2020

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; and upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone. You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing For a child is born to us, a son is given us; Upon his shoulder dominion rests. Isaiah 9: 1,2,5a

Dear Fellow Parishioners,

I greet you all in this holy season of Christmas with the peace of our Lord. As I reflect on the last year, I recall the opening line of a book that I read years ago, “The Road Less Traveled” by M. Scott Peck. He simply writes that “Life is difficult.” He goes on to say that, “Once we know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult.”

What a challenge it has been for all of us to journey along the long and winding road to understanding and accepting all the ways in which our lives, and the lives of those we love, have been impacted and drastically changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have not traveled along this road before, and I, like you, am sensitive to the profound grief, pain and loss that so many are experiencing at many different levels. And it can sometimes be difficult to see good when we feel so overwhelmed, drained and exhausted by our many pressing concerns and needs, and those of our loved ones and friends, indeed of all those in the human family.

And yet, these unprecedented times have graced us with the opportunity to live more deeply in faith, hope and trust in our Lord who makes all things work for the good for those who love God and are called according to God’s purposes. And while it is true that this year has taken much from us, it has also given us moments of joy and gratitude for life’s blessings in the midst of it all. The experiences of these last months have called forth the best qualities in us – wisdom, courage, compassion, empathy, patience, understanding, kindness, forgiveness, humility, and generosity of heart and spirit as we have responded to those in need with prayer and words and deeds of mercy. These are the lasting gifts for which we can be grateful, and my Christmas wish for all of you is that these qualities take firmer root in your hearts and lives.

The passage from Isaiah speaks of the great rejoicing that is promised to a people who have suffered much and yet choose to remain faithful to God. I am constantly reminded that our Lord never promised us that we would not suffer in this life; but he did promise us that he would carry our burdens and walk with us through it all. Jesus, the One named Emmanuel, the One whose birth we celebrate, the One whose death saves us and sets us free from sin and all forms of death, came to this earth as light in our darkness, as the One who longs to be Emmanuel - God with us, God for us, and God within us. This truth is the source of all our hope and joy!

When I count my blessings, I give thanks for our parish community and for each of you. I give thanks for the privilege of serving as your Pastoral Coordinator. I give thanks for our parish staff who have worked diligently over these many months to keep our parish running and serve its many needs. I give thanks for our clergy who continue to celebrate Mass, visit the sick, anoint the dying and bury our dead. I give thanks for the members of our Councils and Commissions and the many volunteer disciples of our community who support and serve our parish family with the gifts of their time, talents, financial resources and prayers. I give thanks for all those who have reached out to feed the hungry and the poor. I give thanks for all the gifts of life and love that have blessed our life together as a parish family.

And finally, I bring you good news of great joy, for at long last we will celebrate the long awaited and long anticipated opening of our renovated church when Archbishop Etienne comes to dedicate it on Saturday, January 30th! By the grace of God, the generosity of our parishioners and the hard work of so many in our parish community who have labored long and hard, and with love, the miracle is that what we once thought impossible and beyond our means has become a reality - we will finish our renovation without taking on a mortgage. In fact, we will have enough money left over to replace the floors in our social hall, landscape the exterior of the church, purchase needed liturgical items like vestments, and do needed maintenance on the roof of the church. I am grateful beyond words to all who stepped out in faith to give sacrificially to make this a reality! We will have a new church, for a new year! Praise the Lord!

To one and all I send greetings of love and prayerful best wishes for a blessed Christmas Season and a New year filled with the promise of life, hope, healing, abundant blessings, and of better things to come once we are able to move beyond this pandemic. Stay safe, and be well. I look forward to the day that we can truly see each other face-to-face, and hold one another in a loving embrace. In the meantime, I am sending virtual hugs and kisses! May God bless us, one and all.

In Christ’s Everlasting Peace,

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