Episodes
!["Outside the Church, there is no salvation" (!) (???)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10476672/HT_Mission-1400x1400_300x300.png)
Monday Jul 15, 2024
"Outside the Church, there is no salvation" (!) (???)
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Each of you is Church, bona fide members of the Body of Christ, in whom Jesus lives and interacts with the world. Your relationships are potential vehicles of grace, windows through which God’s love can reach through and touch those who don’t know Him. Think about that when you’re online, or about to get into a political debate, or you run into that annoying neighbor. Your words, your thoughtfulness, your willingness to befriend, can be sacraments of the saving love of God Himself.
Readings at this Mass: Am 7:12–15 | Eph 1:3–14 | Mk 6:7–13
![Let God's Grandeur Overtake You](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10476672/HT_Mission-1400x1400_300x300.png)
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Let God's Grandeur Overtake You
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
God is the author of all our hobbies; the director of our recreation and guide on our vacations; the maker of your loved ones; the giver of love, joy, and peace. God wants you to delight in these things and know they are His gift to you. But we don't always recognize His sacramental presence in them, whether due to pride, contempt, or fear. To admit to these weaknesses in our lives and surrender them to God, taking them to confession to be healed, leads to a renewed sense of awe and joy.
Readings at this Mass: Ez 2:2–5 | 2 Cor 12:7–10 | Mk 6:1–6a
![Wholesome, imperishable, created in God's image you are](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10476672/HT_Mission-1400x1400_300x300.png)
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Wholesome, imperishable, created in God's image you are
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
God wants so much to save us from those moments of death and sin. "Do not be afraid," He says, "just have faith." He wants us to rely on Him and His Most Sacred Heart. He is here for you and me, so ask Him to carry you, to restore and renew you, to strengthen you and remind you that you are wholesome, you are imperishable, and you are created in God's image.
Readings at this Mass: Wis 1:13–15; 2:23–24 | 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13–15 | Mk 5:21–43
![The way you train is the way you'll fight](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10476672/HT_Mission-1400x1400_300x300.png)
Monday Jun 24, 2024
The way you train is the way you'll fight
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
If 99% of our time is spent living for ourselves, focused on our agenda, relying on our own powers, it'll be hard to turn to the Lord or sense His presence when we need Him. So start training now, so you'll be ready. If you've gotten lazy, recommit to daily prayer. If it's been awhile, go to Confession. When you get out of bed in the morning, offer your day to God before doing anything else. Let the Lord into those broken places and allow Him to become your strength and still point.
Readings at this Mass: Jb 38:1, 8–11 | 2 Cor 5:14–17 | Mk 4:35–41
![Baby Steps](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10476672/HT_Mission-1400x1400_300x300.png)
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Baby Steps
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Our lives are a day-to-day movement toward or away from God. Like a child learning, it's a function of baby steps. Consider this your homework for the summer. Take measure of where you are in your faith today and again at the end of the summer. Try not to be in a hurry; instead, be patient, open to God's grace, and attentive to His still, small voice every day.
![Whose voice is it?](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10476672/HT_Mission-1400x1400_300x300.png)
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Whose voice is it?
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
We ought to cooperate with the Holy Spirit to carry out the will of God for each one of us as brothers and sisters of Christ. How do we do that? In the moments of our daily life which we seem to be pulling away with temptations and discouragement, while asking whose voice it is that we are hearing, we can call upon the Holy Spirit by saying: “Come, Holy Spirit, Come!”
![The slow, patient work of grace](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10476672/HT_Mission-1400x1400_300x300.png)
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
The slow, patient work of grace
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
When God asks us to change, we tend to resist or ignore it and lose ourselves in worldly distractions. The tension that's created is an indicator of where God is pressing on us, where He wants to work. Fr. Bill has a phrase he likes to use: "Mine (as in, 'dig') for conflict". Search your heart for those places of conflict and tension and dig into them. Invite the Lord into those places and ask for what you need: the grace to forgive, the humility to ask for help, whatever it may be.
![Trinity as Family](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10476672/HT_Mission-1400x1400_300x300.png)
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Trinity as Family
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Remember the acronym Fr. Anthony gave us, FAMILY: Forget About Me. I Love You. Ask God to help you to stop fixating on your own wants. Seek out those around you and ask them how they are doing. Don't take yourselves so seriously, but rather lose yourself in the loving service of others, loving as God loves. In that exercise, we learn compassion. Then, you will be imitating and giving glory to the Most Holy Trinity, and your life will be full of a communion of love.
![Image](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/36imc2/HT_Mission-1400x1400.png)
Our Mission - Know, Grow, Go
Holy Trinity summarizes its purpose as know, grow, go. These three words define and motivate everything we do here.
KNOW: We are committed to providing the necessary tools, support, and encouragement for each person to come to know God in a personal way. There is a huge difference between knowing about God, and coming to know God in a personal way. The ministry of Jesus was directed to show us how to do this and to make this possible.
“I bow my knees before the Father, and ask that he may grant you to be strengthened thru the Holy Spirit, that Christ may dwell in your hearts, and that being rooted in love you may have the power to comprehend the extravagant love of God, and to personally experience the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge.”
Eph. 3:14-18
GROW: Holy Trinity then provides many services helpful in allowing this relationship with God to grow towards greater maturity. Our liturgies, ministries, programs, school, and community are all dedicated to ongoing growth in our faith and in living that faith deeply and fruitfully.
“Put on the whole armor of God, that you might be able to resist the attack of the devil. Put on truth, righteousness, peacefulness, and faith. Pray with fervor. Keep alert. Speak boldly. Intercede persistently for all."
Eph. 6:13-20
GO: All of this leads us to go forth and make a difference in our community: in our families, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, and everywhere we are. We seek to give God permission to use us and our interests, gifts, and skills for the building of his Kingdom.
"As each has received a gift, employ it for one another as good stewards of God’s abundant and varied grace — in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 4:10-11