Holy Trinity Parish January 24, 2021 MASS SCHEDULE Saturday 4:00 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m. Wednesday 9 a.m. Thursday 12 p.m. STAY CONNECTED TO HOLY TRINITY PARISH Our parish now has three ways for you to keep in touch. 1) Our website is holytrinitypinconning.org 2) Our Facebook page is Holy Trinity Pinconning 3) Through the SharefaithApp Stay in touch with all our parish news and happenings wherever you are and whenever you want. 225 S. Jennings Pinconning MI 48650 Phone: (989) 879-2141 Fax: (989) 879-6633 MISSION STATEMENT With the divine guidance of the Holy Trinity, we continue Christ’s ministry of welcoming, teaching, caring and supporting each other through prayer and action. HOLY TRINITY PARISH STAFF Fr. Kevin Maksym, Pastor YOUTH MINISTRY email--frkevin@holytrinitypinconning.org Lana Bauer Melissa Ratajczak Denise Podsiadlik, Adm/Bookkeeper email—denise@holytrinitypinconning.org COMMISSIONED LAY MINISTERS Tracy Albrecht Karen Tremble Terri Wilson, Secretarial Associate email—twilson@holytrinitypinconning.org Kathy Bersano Sue Wackerle Kim Hartley Larry Wilson Lorie Szyperski, Liturgist Terry Stevens Jerry Wittkopp, Maintenance Francis Sequin, Maintenance CEMETERY STAFF St. Agnes/St. Michael Cemeteries RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Jim Szyperski (989) 274-1384 Sandy DesJardins, DRE K-8th Grade Mt. Calvary Cemetery email-faithformationK-8@holytrinitypinconning.org Don Galloner (989) 879-4126 Terry Stevens, Adult Faith Formation email—tstevens@holytrinitypinconning.org ST. MICHAEL SCHOOL Ashley Kanuszewski-Principal Karen Tremble, RCIA Coordinator Norma Vallad-Assistant Administrator Sue Wackerle RCIA Coordinator Page 2 Holy Trinity Parish Dear friends of God, to as the beloved community and what Jesus As I write this column, I am thinking of the tension called the Kingdom of God. that is taking place in our world at this moment. By the time you read this, we will have The prophets’ words are timeless and always transitioned from the Presidency of Donald challenging. The prophets rarely give us the Trump to the Presidency of Joe Biden. I am comfort that we think that we need. One confident that we each share the same prayer modern prophet spoke of “comforting the that this will be done as it has from the inception afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.” We of our nation, peacefully. Our present struggles could say that many of us are far too suggest to me that we are deeply in need of comfortable and complacent in our faith. We transformation as both a nation and as a world. can easily forget that Jesus comes from the God continues to break into our lives, to offer us prophetic tradition and all Christian prophets the gifts that we need to become our higher since Jesus have been propelled in their call to selves that he has created us to be and is our the witness of Jesus Christ. birthright as his children and as the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. Last weekend I spoke of This weekend we hear Jesus challenge us with prayer as the vehicle for both our relationship these words: with our God and with each other and also the way of personal and universal transformation “This is the time of fulfillment. God is calling us into in this present moment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Maryknoll missionary priest Father Joe Veneroso recently shared the following poetic words on Repent is a word that we likely associate with Twitter. I love the necessity of conversion and Lent. Repent is the English translation of the how traditional transformation is in our Catholic Greek word metanoia. It literally means spiritual life: “beyond thought.” It is far more than giving up chocolate for Lent. It is about a transformation Divinity into humanity of our way of thinking, our way of living, it is Water into wine about letting go of anything that stands in our Wine into blood of Christ way of taking up our cross and following the Bread into body of Christ Lord. It is the big stuff that we can easily Eucharist into us minimize by thinking that Lent is a good time to lose some weight. It is good that the Church Spiritual life is about transformation or it is has given us this passage from the beginning of nothing. Mark’s Gospel in this third Sunday of Ordinary Time to prepare ourselves for our Lenten Lately I have been reading a lot from our modern journey, which begins in a little over three Christian prophets particularly Dorothy Day, the weeks. Repentance is a life-long process for founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, living the Kingdom of God, but it is something Trappist Father Thomas Merton and Dr. Martin that we need to take seriously especially during Luther King, Jr. It’s interesting that all three were this time of social upheaval. We are called by mentioned by Pope Francis when he spoke to our God to live his Kingdom of love. Together let us national leaders in the fall of 2015. I am struck by in prayer and action, ask God to re-create us how their writings offer the wisdom that we need into the people of his Kingdom of justice and at this moment in history even though Dr. King peace and prophets of a new world truly made and Thomas Merton died in 1968 and Dorothy in the image and likeness of God. Day passed away in 1980. Let me offer you this example. Dr. King uttered the following words Much love, that we need to embrace without hesitation: “We must learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish as fools.” It seems like we are rather foolish at this point. We need to find ways to build community, to create what Dr. King referred Page 3 HOLY TRINITY NEWS Our Parish Stewardship January 16/17, 2021 Week Year to Date Sunday Collection $5,975.28 $229,359.41 Our annual diocesan CHRIST’S MISSION APPEAL is Budgeted Amount $8,100.00 $234,300.00 now under way. Holy Trinity assessment is $49,154.00. Surplus/Deficit ($2,124.72) ($4,940.59) So far we have heard from 142 families and have Capital Improvement $11.00 collected $26,646.04. Support A Child $210.00 Votive $77.00 In order to have a successful campaign we need 100% St. Agnes Cemetery $20.00 participation. That means bringing a positive attitude to St. Michael Cemetery $85.00 the task at hand, as well as considering how each **Our Fiscal Year runs July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021 family might contribute according to their means. WAYS TO GIVE Secure Online: www.saginaw.org/appeal Click on the “Donate Now” button. This will direct you to options for making secure monthly installments or a Saturday, January 30, 2021 Sunday, January 31, 2021 one-time gift using a credit/debit card or a bank Lector Sue Wackerle Lector Kathy Bersano EME 1 Terri Wilson EME1 Ronda Switek account number. EME 2 Larry Wilson EME 2 Sherry Lightner By Mail: Please complete the pledge card that was included in your mailing and return it in the envelope provided. Please return the pledge card to the Diocese of Saginaw. SMALL ALTAR LINEN In Person: You also may return the pledge card to January 29, 2021 Bonnie Misiak your parish office or the Chancery Office, or drop it in the collection basket at Mass. Christ's Mission Appeal funds approximately 50 percent 2020 CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT of the ministries, services, and programs offered within Holy Trinity parishioners wishing to receive a 2020 the Diocese of Saginaw. Many of these are listed below statement of their contribution are asked to provide us and some have no other means of financial support with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. You may besides the appeal. Their reach extends well beyond drop it in the weekly contribution basket or send it by what any parish or school could provide on its own. See mail. below for examples of how people are helped by these ministries. Please be generous. “May we work together to advance towards a new Central Michigan University and Saginaw Valley State horizon of love and peace, of fraternity and University have strong campus ministry programs that solidarity, of mutual support and acceptance.” are made possible through your gifts to Christ's Mission -Pope Francis Appeal. The priests and volunteers ministering on college campuses are continually working to make the Catholic faith available to students in dynamic ways. Vibrant liturgies, involving students in ministerial READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF January 25, 2021 leadership positions, lively discussions that focus on the Monday: Acts 22:3-16/Ps 117:1- 2/Mk 16:15-18 teachings of the church, travel to conferences, Adoration Tuesday: 2 Tm 1:1-8/Ps 96:1-3, 7-8, 10/Mk 3:31-35 of the Blessed Sacrament and spiritual retreats such as Wednesday: Heb 10:11-18/Ps 110:1-4/Mk 4:1-20 Koinonia, (which means “community”) are offered twice Thursday: Heb 10:19-25/Ps 24:1-6/Mk 4:21-25 per year. These are examples of the many ways Friday: Heb 10:32-39/Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40 students are called to prayer and a deepening of their [39a]/Mk 4:26-34 faith through campus ministry programs. Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19/Lk 1:69-70-75/Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Dt 18:15-20/Ps 95:1-2, 6-9/1 Cor 7:32-35/ Mk 1:21-28 Page 4 HOLY TRINITY PARISH In your kindness and prayers CONGRATULATIONS please remember the The following couple received the souls of Sacrament of Matrimony at Holy Trinity Richard “Dick” Gromaski Parish.
Details
-
File Typepdf
-
Upload Time-
-
Content LanguagesEnglish
-
Upload UserAnonymous/Not logged-in
-
File Pages6 Page
-
File Size-