Hello Holy Trinity Family!

On Sunday November 8 we end our National Week of Prayer for Vocations, and I truly wish to thank our beautiful community for our commitment to praying for all vocations. If you didn’t know we do have a vocations ministry that dedicates their time and talents to praying for vocations, and it so happens that this week on Thursday November 12 we have our Holy Hour for Vocations from 5:30pm- 6:30pm here in the church. Praying for vocations is essential to our faith because Christ told us to ask the master of the harvest for laborers in the vineyard of the Lord. But vocations don’t start just with the prayers of the community. Vocations are fostered in the home. Parents, I know it can be scary to have “the talk” with your children about vocations. You may feel like you’re losing your child to the priesthood, the monastery, or the convent. While yes, your child will eventually leave for those places, they would do the same for another great vocation of marriage. I want to encourage parents to have a simple talk with your children about the priesthood and religious life because these lives are so rewarding. I remember as a child every now and then my dad would look at my sisters and myself and just say, “if God calls you to be a priest or a nun, please know you have your parents full support.” Yes, my dad was scared when I told him I was entering the seminary, but he also said it was about time I listened to God’s calling for me. My brothers and sisters may we never stop praying for vocations, and even renewed vocations so that there will be plenty of laborers in the vineyard of the Lord to serve all of us, bring our Eucharistic Lord to us in the Mass, and to be visible signs of Christ’s love in the world.

- Fr. Jonathan