Reflections on Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity's present vocation is to be a place of prayer, a vehicle of renewal.
We do not come here for a nostalgia trip. The simplicity, impracticality, out-of-the wayness and quiet make for renewal here. Our history is shouting here.
Our infancy, our childhood, our past here unite us for what we will do together. We can renew our belief in ourselves. We can discover God's part in our development as communities.
We can strengthen our conviction that God has something He wants of us. Holy Trinity is not our Capernaum, Jerusalem, or Galilee; It is our Bethlehem, our Nazareth. The events that developed later are explained out of this context. Here at Holy Trinity we are immediately in touch with Father judge and Mother Boniface.
Here we find not dead memories of a bygone past, but an awareness of the dramatic achievement of the Holy Spirit through their relationship. To us there is no other ground so hallowed, so sacred, so consecrated with their sweat and tears. As such, it is the only place where we can meet them.
If we meet Father and Mother any place else, we don't truly meet them. To meet our founders, we must come here, we must be here. We must think of the events of their lives they shared here. Out of this hallowed ground we were formed as communities. Holy Trinity is the cradle of our spirit.
The holiness that is here is not ours. It is theirs. But we want to absorb it and here we can, as it were, let it rub off on us. Here we can see the unbelievable work the Holy Spirit did, through them, as a contribution to the Church. The Spirit is here to be caught!Father Vincent Fitzpatrick, S.T.