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Washington, DC January 7, 2018
HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH
MAIN CHURCH
36th Street, between
N and O Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20007
PARISH CENTER
3513 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 337-2840
www.trinity.org
/HolyTrinity
CatholicChurch
@HolyTrinityDC
God’s Abiding Love Retreat in Daily Life
Deadline to Register is Today! January 21-27
Brochures with registration forms are at the
entrances to the Chapel and Church, as well as online at
www.trinity.org/ignatian-spirituality/retreats
Unlocking Doors
“We don’t lock doors here.” It is the voice of Fr. Pete Neely, S.J., ushering our group of 12 visitors from Holy Trinity into the guest house of the Kino Border Initiative (KBI) in Nogales, Arizona. He explains that locks are unnecessary here, since the Border Patrol’s ubiquitous cameras will track our every move for the 48 hours of our stay. We, like the migrants that we have come to accompany, are now potential suspects to peering electronic eyes.
Fr. Neely will be our guide into the work of KBI, a ministry of the USA West Province of the Society of Jesus that works with private volunteers and members of other religious communities to, in the words of its director, Fr. Sean Carroll, S.J., “make the border truly humane, where there is binational collaboration and where the humanity of the migrant—man, woman, and child—is respected.” Our trip is in response to his invitation to visit KBI, to immerse ourselves in its multifaceted mission to provide direct assistance to migrants.
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2018 Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Father Brendan Lally, S.J. of St. Joseph's University will
serve as spiritual director for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from June 12-22, 2018. Join Father Gillespie on
January 14 at 1:15pm in the Chapel to learn more about this journey. For more information about the
pilgrimage, visit www.pilgrimages.com/frlally
PARISH CENTER
Phone: (202) 337-2840 Fax: (202) 337-9048
Hours: Mon-Thur: 8:30am-7:30pm; Fri:
8:30am-12pm through August 25; Sat & Sun:
No receptionist on duty, but the parish center is
accessible during mass times.
Emergencies Only: (202) 903-2817
JESUIT STAFF
Pastor Kevin Gillespie, S.J. (202) 903-2800
kgillespie@ trinity.org
Associate Pastor Paul Campbell, S.J. (202) 903-2832
pcampbell@ trinity.org
Associate Pastor William Kelley, S.J. (202) 903-2833
wkelley@ trinity.org
Communications Karelia Pallan (202) 903-2837
Kaplan@ trinity.org
Facilities Tass McCarthy (202) 903-2813
tmccarthy@ trinity.org
Faith Formation/ Religious Ed.
Judith Brusseau (202) 903-2807
jbrusseau@ trinity.org
Finance Chris Kehoe (202) 903-2811
ckehoe@ trinity.org
Holy Trinity School
Charlie Hennessy (202) 337-2339
principal@ htsdc.org
Human Resources
Angela Grady (202) 903-2803
agrady@ trinity.org
Ignatian Spirituality
Martina O’Shea (202) 903-2810
moshea@ trinity.org
Parish Life/ Pastor’s Office
Lisa Dittmeier (202) 903-2801
ldittmeier@ trinity.org
Music Ministry Kathleen DeJardin (202) 903-2805
kdejardin@ trinity.org
Social Justice Kate Tromble (202) 903-2809
ktromble@ trinity.org
Stewardship Rock Schuler (202) 903-2843
rschuler@ trinity.org
Worship & Liturgy
David Pennington (202) 903-2804
dpennington@ trinity.org
Young Adult Community
Catherine Heinhold (202) 903-2819
cheinhold@ trinity.org
Youth Ministry
Sara Seligmann (202) 903-2814
confirmation@ trinity.org
We are a Jesuit Catholic parish that welcomes all to:
Accompany one another in Christ Celebrate God's love Transform lives
MISSION STATEMENT
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Before saying adieu to 2017 and singing the customary Auld
Lang Syne, I reflected on some of the books and texts that over
the past year I found informative and inspiring. Five such works
came to mind. I call them my “texts of the year.” Arranging them
in five categories I would like to share them with you:
Best Pastoral Book
Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT
Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect,
Compassion, and Sensitivity by Fr. James Martin, S.J.
Encouraged and supported by leading episcopal authorities, this
important book serves as a resource for greater understanding
and dialogue within and beyond Catholic faith communities.
Best Spiritual Meditative Book
The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation by Fr.
Richard Rohr, O.F.M.
Rich with spiritual insights on the ways in which The Holy
Trinity can be understood as It flows and forces in our
relationship with God and with one another.
Best Science Book
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human
Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov
While much of this book describes how IBM’s computer, Deep
Blue, eventually proved more “intelligent” than the chess
grandmaster, Kasparov, the book also suggests the strengths as
well as limits of artificial intelligence.
Best Cultural/Economic Book
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in
the Age of Accelerations by Thomas Friedman
A national commentator on the socio-economic-technological
changes sweeping the globe, Friedman offers the reader insights
into the forces of technology, globalization, climate change and
biodiversity loss.
Best Social Media Site
Grotto Network, www.grottonetwork.com
Since its launch this past November by the University of Notre
Dame, Grotto Network has become an important vehicle for
young adults to explore and find meanings in and through their
faith communities. Pastoral and spiritual categories offer advice
and insights into concerns involving health and wellness, career
and finance and relationships. Whatever your age, I recommend
that you check out the site.
I welcome your suggestions on books that inspired you this past year.
PARISH DEPARTMENTS
From the Pastor’s Desk
PPC members share leadership responsibility with our pastor. As
advisors to the pastor, PPC members assist the pastor in discerning,
articulating and communicating to other parishioners the identity
and mission of the parish, and they assist the pastor in assuring
fidelity to that identity and mission.
To add a name to these prayer lists, contact
Lisa Dittmeier at [email protected]. You
must be an immediate relative of the one to be
remembered, or have express permission in
order to add a name to these lists. The
names on this prayer list will be mentioned
aloud at Sunday Mass during the General
Intercessions and will be published in the
parish eLetter and bulletin.
NEW PARISHIONER REGISTRATION
Mass Schedule (Check bulletin or website for Holy Days)
Weekdays: 7am, 8am & 5:30pm in the Chapel (on N St.)
Note: Please see schedule for daily Mass times.
Chapel is open on weekdays between Masses.
Saturday: 8am — Chapel; 5:30pm Vigil — Church
Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am, 11:30am, 1:15pm & 5:30pm
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Every Saturday from 4:30pm—5:15pm or by appointment
Sacrament of the Sick
Communal anointing is celebrated on the first Wednesday of the month at
7pm in the St. Ignatius Chapel. Call the Parish to request the
sacrament at home or in the hospital.
Baptisms and Weddings:
To schedule a Baptism or Wedding, contact Helene Flanagan at
(202) 903-2806 or [email protected].
Sacramental Preparation:
Persons desiring to receive certain sacraments at Holy Trinity need
to be registered parishioners and are expected to participate in a
preparation program. For more information or to register, contact
the appropriate staff person:
Infant Baptism: [email protected], (202) 903-2808
First Reconciliation: Judith Brusseau, (202) 903-2807
First Eucharist: Judith Brusseau, (202) 903-2807
Marriage Preparation: [email protected], (202) 903-2808
Adult Initiation (RCIA): Anne Koester, (202) 337-2840 x128
Children’s Initiation (RCIA): Judith Brusseau, (202) 903-2807
Adult Confirmation: Judith Brusseau, (202) 903-2807
Youth Confirmation: Judith Brusseau, (202) 903-2807
PRAYER REQUESTS
Daily Mass Intentions SACRAMENTS
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL (PPC)
Pray for those who are sick: Elizabeth Keane;
Dennis Fisher; Fred Ganley
Pray for those who are dead: Fr. Joseph
Simoly; John Gillick
RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is a process of conversion and faith formation for individuals who are interested in living the Christian life in the Catholic tradition. Those who want to learn more about the possibility of becoming Catholic are welcome to come to the Inquiry meetings held every Tuesday evening at 7pm in the Faber Room, Holy Trinity Parish Center. Please contact Anne Koester [email protected] for more information or visit our website.
Welcome to Holy Trinity! We invite you to join our parish. You may register at www.trinity.org/register. Questions about registering can be directed to [email protected].
New parishioner orientations are held several times throughout the year. See the bulletin, eLetter and website for announcement of dates and times.
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The parish community prays for all of the dead
every day at Mass. However, we encourage
parishioners to mention specific persons by
name during the General Intercessions when
invited to do so by the presider.
Parishioners may also request that a specific
person be remembered by name at a particular
weekday Mass by calling or visiting the
receptionist’s desk in the Parish Center during
normal office hours.
Names must be submitted one week in advance.
Persons to be so remembered at weekday
Masses this week are:
Week of January 8, 2017
President Cecilia Boudreau [email protected]
Vice President Ellen Toups [email protected]
Monday 7:00am Elaine Peterson+
5:30pm Maureen Hartigan+
Tuesday 7:00am
5:30pm
Wednesday 8:00am
5:30pm
Thursday 8:00am
5:30pm Abigail Ryan+
Friday 8:00am Charles Gill+
5:30pm Eleanor Cavanaugh+
Saturday 8:00am
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M
SOCIAL JUSTICE
IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY
WORSHIP
Inner Peace in Diving Love Retreat at Georgetown Prep February 18-March 25 Registration deadline: February 4
In the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius Loyola suggests that the Exercises could be made in two ways: the Full Spiritual Exercises (made over a 30 day period or nine months) and the First Spiritual Exercises (made over a shorter period of time). Inner Peace in Divine Love is the first of four retreats in the First Spiritual Exercises.
This retreat will be meet on Sundays at Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Md. Space is limited, so please register early.
To learn more or to register for a retreat, please visit www.trinity.org/Ignatian-spirituality/retreats or pick up a brochure in the back of the church. For more information, please contact Martina O’Shea, [email protected] or (202) 903-2810.
A Lenten Retreat in Daily Life Drawn from the Spiritual Exercises February 11-March 24 Registration deadline is January 28
This individually directed six-week retreat, made in daily life, is for those who have already made an Ignatian retreat and are looking to go deeper. For those thinking about making the Spiritual Exercises, the retreat can give you a taste of what is involved in making the eight-to-nine month retreat. During Lent, you will commit to taking one hour a day to pray and one hour a week to meet with a spiritual director. As part of this retreat, you are also asked to attend the opening session February 11 from 3-5pm and the closing session on March 24 from 8:30-10:30am.
God’s Abiding Love Retreat in Daily Life January 21-27, 2018 Registration Deadline is January 7
Brochures with registration forms are at the entrances to the church and chapel as well as online at www.trinty.org/ignatian-spirituality/retreats or email [email protected] for more information.
People of Faith: Confronting the Challenge
of Racism
Join us for an ecumenical conversation on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend about how our community of faithful people can, together, confront racism in our world today. Speakers will be Rev. Robert Pines of First Baptist Church, Rev. Johnsie Cogman of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, and John Graham of Grace Episcopal Church. January 14, 2:30pm in McKenna Hall.
Washington Hebrew MLK Shabbat Service Join the Washington Hebrew Congregation for a dinner and Interfaith Shabbat service to honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The service will feature filmmaker Ilana Trachtman and Montgomery County Humanitarian Award recipient Esther Delaplaine discussing the 1960 Glen Echo Amusement Park protests. Friday January 12 beginning at 5pm. RSVP to Layne Weiss, [email protected] or (202) 895-6307.
Attention CPAs! This upcoming tax return season, Catholic Charities is managing an IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. CPAs and tax lawyers are needed to provide pro bono tax preparation for the working poor.
We will be providing training in January for all interested volunteers. Tax return preparation will take place on Saturdays from February 3 to April 14. To learn more about volunteering for Catholic Charities VITA Program, please email Deacon Jim Shanahan at [email protected] or call (202) 772-4310.
Men’s Discernment Retreat
Carinal Wuerl invites men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s
who are open to a call to the priesthood to attend a
discernment retreat led by priests of the Archdiocese of
Washington. The retreat will be held February 2-4 at
Saint John Paul Seminary in Washington, D.C. There is
no cost to attend. Registration is open at
www.dcpriest.org.
Food Drive for Fr. McKenna Center Our monthly food drive to benefit the McKenna Center
will be held next weekend, January 13 & 14. Please
bring your non-perishable food items next week.
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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION/
FAITH FORMATION
Stay Connected in 2018!
Sign up for weekly updates at www.trinity.org/eLetter
STEWARDSHIP
Ecumenical Sunday In the week of the Church Unity Octave, January 18-25, Anthony Tambasco, Ph.D., will lead the Sunday morning adult education program on Inter-Faith Activity: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? January 21, 10:10am, Chapel
Coming up January 14
No Religious Education classes
January 21
First Eucharist Preparation Parent Meeting, 10:10am
Children’s Bible Story Hour, 10:10am
7th Grade Parent Coffee, 10:10am
Unlocking Doors, cont. from page 1
We are in Nogales to open some doors of our own; to unlock stereotypes of migration propagated by our politicians and to give witness to the immigration counsel of our Bishops and to be in solidarity with Pope Francis, who has blessed many groups of refugees.
In the Comedor, a KBI reception center on the Mexican side of the border, we hear stories from recently deported migrants. We listen to accounts of persons fleeing to survive conditions of violence and abuse. We hear testimony from fathers and mothers seeking to reunite with their children, now ripped from them by walls and uncaring laws. We share the grief of newly deported immigrants, dragged away from jobs and schools in the U.S., where they had lived peacefully for many years.
We walk the high desert trails on which migrants trek northward. We touch their personal property, lost on the desert floor before they were arrested or perished in the unforgiving wasteland. We venerate their detritus as “relics,” bequeathed to us by nameless kindred spirits.
We dine with ranchers who call for increased border security, while wishing that it would be easier to legally hire migrants to help them with their work. In a Tucson courthouse, we observe “Operation Streamline,” as seventy-five recently detained migrants trade away their rights to a regular immigration hearing by the utterance of a guilty plea; rescuing them from long prison terms but branding them as felons, unable ever again to enter our country legally.
Our encounter with the borderlands opened doors of comprehension. We leave Nogales with keys. With them we hope to unlock doors of ignorance and prejudice and join others to enter new spaces of understanding about our Christian responsibility to respect and nurture “the stranger among us.”
To learn more about our visit to Kino and the April trip, attend a presentation today, January 7, in Trinity Hall after the 9am Masses or contact Margie Legowski at [email protected].
To learn more about the work of the Kino Border Initiative, visit www.kinoborderinitiative.org.
—Written by parishioner Ashley Hawken
Please help us meet our 2018 goal of $3.2M! Pledge or
give at www.trinity.org/give. Your response to God's
grace through your gift is deeply appreciated.
PARISH LIFE
Grief Support Group Have you experienced a death in your family, or among your close friends, and are dealing with protracted sorrow or spiritual emptiness associated with that loss? Beginning on February 10, grief support group meetings will be held on six consecutive Saturdays to deal with the effects of such bereavement and to provide an enabling space for healing and spiritual renewal. All sessions will run from 10:30am-12:30pm. For more information on the group, contact Richard Shullaw at [email protected] or (703) 980-9884. For additional details, please visit www.trinity.org/parish-life.
Holy Trinity Book Group
The group kicked off 2018 on January 3 with Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel. Mark as Story is the ideal resource for readers encountering Mark's Gospel for the first time and for those long familiar with the Gospel to rediscover the skill and immediacy it conveys. The group meets weekly on Wednesdays at 7:15pm. For more information, contact Robert Stewart at [email protected].
Be an Ambassador!
If you are a more seasoned parishioner, we are looking to expand our team of Holy Trinity Ambassadors. Ambassadors welcome new parishioners at Welcome Sundays, during New Parishioner Orientations and reach out by email and phone. Especially needed are young adults and parents of Religious Education students. Please contact Anna Myers at [email protected] with questions.
Sunday, September 17
At all Masses
Monthly non-perishable food drive for the McKenna Center
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No Religious Education 9:00 AM Sunday Mass with Baptism Church 10:15 AM St. Jean Baptiste Haiti Committee Meeting Parish Center Library 11:30 AM Sunday Mass with Baptism Church 1:15 PM Holy Land Pilgrimage Information Session
Chapel 2:30 PM People of Faith: Confronting Challenges of Racism
McKenna Hall
7:15 PM Young Adult Community Mass & Cafe Chapel
SOLEMMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
Isaiah 60:1-6/Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6/Matthew 2:1-12
Monday, January 8
Tuesday, January 9
7:30 PM Separated, Widowed & Divorced Group
Neale Room
FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 or Isaiah 55:1-11 or Acts 10:34-38 or
1 John 5:1-9/Mark 1:7-11
Wednesday, January 10
7:00 PM Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) Faber Room
TUESDAY O F THE 1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
1 Samuel 1:9-20/Mark 1:21-28
Thursday, January 11
7:15 PM Holy Trinity Book Discussion Group Lower School Big Room, [email protected]
Friday, January 12
6:00 PM Christian Meditation Group Saint Ignatius Chapel 7:00 PM Job Seekers Support Group Georgetown Neighborhood Library (3260 R Street, NW) 7:00P M Young Adult Faith Sharing Saint Ignatius Chapel
WEDNESDAY OF THE 1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20/Mark 1:29-39
THURSDAY OF THE 1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
1 Samuel 4:1-11/Mark 1:40-45
Saturday, January 13
10:10 AM Religious Education
Assigned Classrooms
10:15 AM Reflections on Kino Border Initiative Trip
Trinity Hall
Sunday, January 14
7:30 AM Zen Meditation
Parish Center Upper Room, [email protected]
9:30 AM Georgetown Ministry Center Service
McKenna Hall
FRIDAY OF THE 1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22a/Mark 2:1-12
SATURDAY OF THE 1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
1 Samuel 9”1-4, 17-19; 10:1a/Mark 2:13-17
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19/1Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20/
John 1:35-42
Daily Readings:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings
For a complete list of events, visit:
www.trinity.org/calendar
Join us for coffee & fellowship:
Sundays after 9am & 11:30am Masses
Sunday, January 7
Coming Up:
January 21: Inter-faith Activity Where Have We Been & Where Are We Going?
January 27: Build Your Toolbox for Justice The Role of Laity in Working for Justice