Message from Pastors

Our Community of Faith is blessed with a rich diversity of cultures and people who realize their talents and gifts are a grace from God for the building up of the Body of Christ. Like Jesus who reached out to everyone, our Parish Family wants everyone in our neighborhoods to know they are welcome at Holy Trinity. This loving welcome begins with the Sunday Eucharist. As Catholics, we believe that Christ gave us the gift of His Risen Body and Blood and calls us to: "Do This In Memory of Me."

God alone could reveal God's inner Self to us. When we become transparent to a spouse, a child or friend, and trust them enough to let them know who we are and, in that vulnerability, open the possibility of love, so too, God reveals who God is so that we can fall deeply in love. God is One: Father, who so loved the world that the Father gave us His only begotten Son; the Son, who came that we might have life and have it to the full; and Holy Spirit, who is the fullness of the great love of the Father and the Son and empowers each of us to live like Jesus, to do the things that He did, and greater than these.

Catholics have been accused of being idol worshippers, because they use statues and icons (paintings on wood of the Byzantine tradition) in church and at home. But unlike the pagan Romans and Greeks, who actually worshipped false gods, Catholics use statues and icons the same way that others use photographs.

Most people have photos of their loved ones, living and deceased, in their wallets and purses, on their desks, and in their homes. The pictures are nothing more than reminders of those people. Neither the images nor the people are worshipped. Likewise, Catholic statues and icons are merely religious reminders of friends and servants of God whom Catholics admire for their holiness, loyalty, and obedience to God. Catholics don't worship a statue any more than they worship the saint it represents.

If the biblical injunction against graven images is taken out of context, then you could say that the Louvre shouldn't have any paintings in it, and you could say that the Statue of Liberty is idolatry. But, of course, no one worships inanimate reproductions or the people they represent.

The marble statue of God the Father and Holy Spirit looking upon Christ crucified for our sins, the icon of the Holy Trinity, is a sacramental, a tangible reminder of our faithful God who bestows mercy in abundance and loves us unconditionally.