Holy Trinity Church
Welcome
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday Vigil Mass: 4:30 pm | 6:30 pm (Spanish)
Sunday Mass: 8:30 am | 10:30 am
- Breaking News
My brothers and sisters, September is a month filled with important news and events for our parish family. I would like to share some of the most important updates with you.
1. Faith Formation Coordinator:
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Mrs. Michelle Gibbs, who has been serving as our Administrative Assistant, is now our Faith Formation Coordinator. You know Michelle. She has served as a catechist in our parish for several years, working with both children and youth. I am confident that she will be an excellent coordinator for our faith formation programs. Please keep Michelle, as well as all the children and youth participating in our various faith formation programs, in your prayers.
2. Blessing of Our Cemetery:
As we do every year, on September 13th, we will bless our cemetery following the 10:30 a.m. Mass, around noon. This is an opportunity for us, as a community, not only to bless the graves, but also to pray for our faithful departed and for all the souls in Purgatory. I hope you can all attend this beautiful prayer service.
3. The Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the 1,000 Jesuses:
“Then He handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle” (John 19:16–18). On September 14, the Church will celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. This year, as we did last year, we will celebrate this feast at 6:30 p.m. by praying the Colombian tradition of the 1,000 Jesuses. Please bring your rosary so that we can pray together this beautiful devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ. I hope you can join us for this special celebration and prayer.
4. Relic of Bishop Fulton Sheen:
Many of us know that Bishop Fulton Sheen, who served as the sixth bishop of our diocese, is to be beatified on September 24 in St. Louis, Missouri. Many of you will remember him for his evangelization work on radio and television. Bishop Tylka will be visiting our Diocese and bringing a relic of Bishop Sheen. Bishop Bonnici will receive the relic during a special Mass on September 29, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Bishop Bonnici invites all of us to participate in this Eucharistic celebration. Additionally, Bishop Sheen’s relic will visit various parishes throughout our Diocese for veneration. Below are the locations and dates of the Masses where you can go to venerate the relic:
• Sacred Heart Cathedral (Rochester): September 29th at 7:00 pm
• St. Stephen (Geneva): October 1st at 7:00 pm
• St. John the Evangelist (Spencerport): October 7th at 7:00 pm
• St. Mary (Geneseo): October 13th at 7:00 pm
• St. Joseph (Penfield): October 28th at 7:00 pm
• St. Mary Our Mother (Horseheads): October 29th at 7:00 pm
• Immaculate Conception (Ithaca): November 4th at 7:00 pm
Remember, The Parish that we dream is the parish that I help to build!
God bless you, and may the Blessed Virgin Mary be with you always.
Fr. Jorge Ramirez
Holy Trinity Church… 165 Evangelizing!
This Week’s Mass Intentions
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
4:30 pm (Vigil) For the people of Holy Trinity, living and
deceased
6:30 pm Spanish Mass
Sunday, September 6, 2026
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
8:30 am Ronald Oriel, req. by children and grandchildren
10:30 am Nash & Knox Mrozek, req. by 2026 OCIA
candidates
Monday, September 7, 2026
Labor Day
8:30 am Gerald Scheer, req. by the Scheer family
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8:30 am Marie Wing, req. by Sharon Whitcomb
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
USA: Saint Peter Claver, Priest
8:30 am Alan Giglio, req. by Warren & Sandie Purdy
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Saint Thomas of Villanova
8:30 am Gonzalo Ramirez, req. by Fr. Jorge
Friday, September 11, 2026
Saint Cyprian
8:30 am For all the 9/11 victims and their families
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary
4:30 pm (Vigil) Special intentions and birthday of Bishop
Matano, req. by Lydia Krasnoff
Sunday, September 13, 2026
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
8:30 am For the people of Holy Trinity, living and deceased
10:30 am Charles Costello, 20th anniversary, req. by the
Broccolo Family
Faith Formation Registration
Registration for this Fall is now open
We offer programs for Faith Formation (Religious Education) that are designed to help you and your child find God every day in relevant and relatable ways.
Registering in advance is required. We have limited space for our Sunday program, and registration will close once we reach full capacity for it. Sign up early to secure your child’s enrollment.
Parish Office Closed
Our Parish Offices will be closed on Monday, September 7th in observation of Labor Day
Penny Sunday
September 5th & 6th
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading One: Ezekiel 33:7-9
You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel;
when you hear me say anything, you shall warn them for me.
If I tell the wicked, "O wicked one, you shall surely die, "
and you do not speak out to dissuade the wicked from his way,
the wicked shall die for his guilt,
but I will hold you responsible for his death.
But if you warn the wicked,
trying to turn him from his way,
and he refuses to turn from his way,
he shall die for his guilt,
but you shall save yourself.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9
R. (8) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
let us acclaim the rock of our salvation.
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us joyfully sing psalms to him.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Come, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For he is our God,
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
"Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the desert,
where your fathers tempted me;
they tested me though they had seen my works."
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Reading Two: Romans 13:8-10
Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another;
for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery;
you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet, "
and whatever other commandment there may be,
are summed up in this saying, namely,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Love does no evil to the neighbor;
hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.
Alleluia: 2 Corinthians 5:19
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ
and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
The Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20
"If your brother sins against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.
If he does not listen,
take one or two others along with you,
so that 'every fact may be established
on the testimony of two or three witnesses.'
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church.
If he refuses to listen even to the church,
then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.
Amen, I say to you,
whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven,
and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Again, amen, I say to you,
if two of you agree on earth
about anything for which they are to pray,
it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them."
Pope Leo XIV
From the Bishop
