Today, one week after Pentecost, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Trinity—one God revealed in three persons. The Trinity is a profound mystery of faith. It’s hard to contemplate, but it hasn’t stopped theologians and spiritual writers from helping us understand it better.
The Trinity is about God in relationship. Saint John Paul II called the Trinity a Communion of Persons. The Father loves the Son, who is beloved by the Father. The love that unites them is the Holy Spirit. The three persons live in communion—always in harmony, forever relating, never separate, always engaging.
Some early Christians thought of the Trinity as a circle dance—the flow of giving and receiving between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; a dance that never ends like a circle never ends.
Whatever the metaphor or explanation, what’s important for us to realize, is that God is a relational God—a Communion of Persons seeking communion with each one of us. When we discover that communion, and partake in it (like we do in our baptism), we enter the life of the Trinity. It’s what sends us to further the mission of the Church, just like we hear about in today’s gospel!
Our 2020 Vision Furthers Our Mission The results of our Feasibility Study, which included an in-pew survey to hear your thoughts, revealed that a strong majority of our parish feel the time is right to move forward with a plan to tackle some of the important needs of our parish, mainly:
The Village of Hoffman Estates directive that we install a sprinkling system in our school building for added protection and to comply with their ordinances,
improvements to the functioning of the lower level of the church as well as the Pastoral Ministry Center to help us in our ministry to others,
our goal to put technology into the hands of our school students to stay current with the trends in education which will help keep our school vibrant, and
our obligation as a parish (and every parish) to participate in the Archdiocese of Chicago’s “To Teach Who Christ Is” campaign which supports Catholic education.
We’ve begun organizing and planning for this capital campaign, which we are simply calling our 2020 Vision. We are in the initial phase and will share more as we travel through summer. St. Hubert has always been a parish that empowers us to live the gospel by building up the community who use our facilities to gather, minister and fulfill the mission of the Church. The campaign will help us continue our presence as a center of faith, hope, and charity as we move into the 2020’s.
The St. Hubert School Report Card As we congratulate our St. Hubert School Class of 2018, our principal, Kelly Bourrell, looks at some of the highlights of the last school year and reports on some new developments for the Fall. See our school’s “Report Card” on pages 8 and 9.
As we honor those who served our country and gave their life for it on this Memorial Day weekend, may your time with friends and family be blessed. We are a people in relationship, created in the image and likeness of our one God, seeking communion.