Dear Holy Trinity Family,

Happy Labor Day weekend!

As we celebrate this weekend, I wish to express my gratitude to this beautiful community on how we labor of our Lord. The devotion we as a community have to growing in holiness and deepening our relationship with God is very inspiring. It’s not easy to love, especially the way our community loves. We hear in our Gospel this weekend about a very special type of love, loving those who have done wrong against us. It can take a toll on us physically and mentally when we struggle to forgive others. Christ tells us that if someone has done any wrong to us, go to them and address the situation. That takes a lot of courage. We can tend to be very passive in our culture today. It’s just easier to forgive and forget. But that can lead us to cutting people out of our lives who can sanctify us. It takes a lot of energy to forgive and to foster relationships with one another. Our community here works very hard at being so welcoming and inviting, this truly is a labor of love. May we never get tired of this labor of love, but may we also remember to rest. God rested on the last day of creation. We are not robots, and we can’t just work nonstop. We need to rest in our Lord, to be fed by His body and blood and renewed through the Sacraments. This Labor Day please take time to thank God for all the labors we have been called to do in His vineyard, thank Him for the gifts he has bestowed on each one of us for His greater glory, and to take time to rest in His embrace.

- Fr. Jonathan