Dear Holy Trinity Family,

As we are wrapping up our Advent today, we will celebrate the birth of Christ this week. This is what we have been

waiting for and this is all about the Father’s fulfilment of His promise that He would send His only begotten Son to

us so that we may be saved and have the eternal life. Jesus came as a powerless and vulnerable baby, yet he is the

most Holy and powerful God. Let us adore Him. Let us cry out with all our voices “Glory to God in the Highest!”

In the light of Christmas, as your pastor, I would like to wish you a “Merry Christmas” along with Msgr. Herres and

Fr. Mike. All Holy Trinity clergy and staff wish our parishioners a warm blessing of God on this Christmas Day.

Each of you are precious gifts from God to our parish. Without your love and supports to us, Holy Trinity would not

be here today. Thank you for presence at Holy Trinity. You are the reason that we are here to serve God through

serving you! We love you all!

Also, as I wrote last week’s message, the Catholic Church will have the Jubilee Year 2025, the Year of Hope, and

will be announced on Christmas Eve by the Holy Father Pope Francis. His declaration will open the “Pilgrims of

Hope” Jubilee Year in Rome. Then, on Sunday, December 29 at the 10 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of

the Angels, Archbishop José H. Gomez will open the Jubilee in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. All the faithful of

the Archdiocese are invited to join him for the historic moment.

You can learn more about the Jubilee at hope.lacatholics.org and download the

Archdiocesan Jubilee logo, bilingual Jubilee prayer cards, and Mass texts.

With Pope Francis, we pray that “the Jubilee be a moment of genuine

encounter with the Lord Jesus, the ‘door’ (cf. John 10:7, 9) of our salvation,

whom the Church is charged to proclaim always, everywhere, and to all as ‘our

hope’ (1 Tim 1:1)” (Spes Non Confundit 1).

I put Holy Trinity Community into God’s hands and dedicate each of us to the

Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, on this joyful day of Christ’s birthday. May God

bless all of us through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Merry

Christmas!!!

Blessings,

Fr. Brian