Holy Trinity ChurchThe voices of our Pastors
Dear family of the Most Holy Trinity Church,
In this celebration of our 165th anniversary as a community of faith, I would like to share with you some notes from our previous pastors. The first one is from Father William M. Hart, Ph.D. Many of you may remember him.
Remember, The parish that we dream is the parish that I help to build!
Holy Trinity Church… 165 years evangelizing!
God bless you and may the Blessed Virgin Mary be with you always!
Fr. Jorge Ramírez
Light Shining in the Darkness
By Fr. William M. Hart, Ph.D.
February 8, 1981
“You are the light of the world… let your light shine before men, in order that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in Heaven.”
Today’s gospel passage uses the metaphors of salt and light to describe the character of apostleship: the Christian must season the world with the savor of the gospel and illuminate it with the presence of Christ, acting through him. The main focus is on the latter image.
As God is light and Christ is light, so is the Christian to the extent that he reflects them. This is because the Christian is supposed to be made in the image of God and be a child of God: if God is light, so is the Christian insofar as he is a Christian.
“Being the light of the world” might suggest to action-oriented Americans primarily an imperative to change the world or instruct it by some kind of program. But as Eistein and Plato and all great teachers teach much more in virtue of what they are rather that in virtue of what they say, so, too, the Christian sheds the light of Christ in the world by what he is first and foremost. Christ did the same, there are some signs that a Christian is such a light in his loving, hopeful, and prayer way of life. But his most powerful sign is the presence of the divine light in his whole being so that whoever encounters him will see it in him.
