Category: Uncategorized

Holy Trinity Catholic Church  Uncategorized
Fatima – Aug 14-15
14 Aug 2017

Fatima – Aug 14-15

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
The Administrator of Ourem, Santos, locked Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta in a room in his own house no August 13th.  As the clock struck Noon – the hour Our Lady was to have visited them – the children began to worry.  Francisco spoke, “Our Lady m ...

Read more
Fatima
06 Aug 2017

Fatima

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Thank you again to everyone who came out to the picnic.  Again, thank you to everyone who helped in any way to make it such an enjoyable afternoon! I mentioned last week the apparition of Mary on July 13, 1917 to the three children in Fatima, Portuga ...

Read more
Fatima
21 Jul 2017

Fatima

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Hope everyone is having a holy, enjoyable and safe summer! As we are within the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions to the three children at Fatima, Portugal, I thought it would be well to mention the Blessed Virgin Mary’s third apparition ...

Read more
Fr. Augustine Tran
02 Jul 2017

Fr. Augustine Tran

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
This weekend we welcome Fr. Augustine Tran who comes to us from St. James in Falls Church.  Fr. Tran has been ordained thirteen years.  He brings with him the rich tradition of Vietnam – particularly, having lived under a dictatorial regime.  We loo ...

Read more
4th of July 2017
02 Jul 2017

4th of July 2017

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
All of the clergy hope that you and your family had a holy and joyful celebration of our nation’s independence! Thank you to Dawn Filipowicz who has guided our gift shop for the last two years. We are grateful for the many hours each week that Dawn ha ...

Read more
Corpus Christi 2017
20 Jun 2017

Corpus Christi 2017

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Thank you to everyone who was able to participate in our outdoor Corpus Christi/Eucharistic Procession last Sunday!  It was a joy to see many of our First Holy Communicants with some of our recent Confirmandi participate at the front of the procession. ...

Read more
All social engineering begins with verbal shuffling.
11 Jun 2017

All social engineering begins with verbal shuffling.

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
A priest/Moral Theology prof at my college once stated, ‘All social engineering begins with verbal shuffling.’ It is a true statement when you look at history. For example, last century the communists of China, Russia and Eastern Europe allowed ...

Read more
Trinity Sunday 2017
06 Jun 2017

Trinity Sunday 2017

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
This Sunday is our ‘patronal’ feast day as we celebrate Holy Trinity Sunday.  Traditionally, following Ascension there are a row of feasts – Pentecost, Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart of Jesus, to name a few. ‘Let us make man in ou ...

Read more
Pentecost 2017
02 Jun 2017

Pentecost 2017

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
We congratulate our confirmandi who received God the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of Confirmationthis past Saturday.  Thank you to all the parents who prepared your young men and women for the sacrament.  Thank you to all of our volunteers – teachers ...

Read more
PWCSB 2017 and Confirmation
23 May 2017

PWCSB 2017 and Confirmation

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Today we congratulate our confirmandi and their parents after their reception of Confirmation on Saturday, May 27th.  May each of you strive to follow God the Holy Spirit’s guidance in your lives through daily prayer – particularly devotion to Jesus ...

Read more
1 2 3 4 5 6 … 13