Pastor's Letter
Dear Holy Trinity Family,
Past week, we had two Novenas simultaneously – one in the morning and another in the afternoon since the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus fell on Friday, June 12 and the optional memorial of St. Anthony of Padua on Saturday, June 13. Offering two different Novenas almost same days was a rare opportunity to the parish that we needed to be little more creative; therefore, we had the novena to St. Anthony of Padua in the morning after 8:00am Mass and the novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the afternoon after 5:00pm Mass. Holy Trinity Parish offers many novenas of particular saints throughout a year and it is our parish’s rich spirituality and tradition. With all these novenas, many saints continue to intercede for our community and families here. Concluding two novenas now, I would like to thank everyone who organized and participated them. I have no doubt that our heavenly Father finds His delights in all of us here and all saints in heaven for whom we offer our novenas.
Upcoming Wednesday, June 17, the Holy Trinity School will finish its 2025-26 academic year. All students will go to their summer vacation until mid-August. Our 8th graders celebrated their graduation Mass and commencement of diploma on Thursday, June 11 and our Kinder young students had their ceremony on Friday, June 12. Congratulations the class of 2026 for your achievements! As our parochial school is about to finish her academy year, I would like to thank all teachers, aides, and staff for their continuous love, passion and dedication to our small but mighty school and Catholic education. Especially, I would like to express my special gratitude to our principal, Dr. Aileen Vasquez, who joined our school a year ago, for her leadership. She not only has brought many ideas but also implemented them so that our school could thrive more. Despite of small number of students, our school won two CYO Championships – basketball and volleyball – this year. This is a very rare accomplishment to win both in a single academic year. Moreover, our school was at the top for 2026 Academic Decathlon. Our school will continue to grow and succeed upcoming school year 2026-27 as well. Please pray and support our school. If you have any child and grandchild of school age, please consider enrolling them at Holy Trinity School now. We are currently open for a new registration.
Today, we show our love and care for all retired priests of our diocese through a special second collection – the Retirement Fund for Archdiocese Priests. They served all of us as pastors and associate pastors and many of them are still doing their priestly duties. It is now our opportunity to help them to continue their pastoral works although they have been retired from the active ministry. Many of them are still celebrate daily Masses and Sunday Masses for the people of God. One clear example is Msgr. Joseph Herres. He still does many things for our parish Holy Trinity. Let us support our retired priests! And I thank you for all love and care for them!
May God bless all of you and guide you in the presence of Holy Spirit to imitate Lord Jesus Christ every day!
Blessings,
Fr. Brian
