I am happy to inform you that I have appointed Mrs. Maureen Meredith Pfeiffer as Principal of Blessed Trinity Catholic School, effective July 1, 2022.
Mrs. Pfeiffer has been a member of the faculty of Saint Timothy and Blessed Trinity for her entire 25 plus year teaching career. Mrs. Pfeiffer has wide experience as a teacher, having taught fifth grade, third grade for many years, and, for the past several years, Kindergarten. She is well known by students, alumni, and parents as a dedicated teacher, whose professionalism, enthusiasm, and love for her students shine forth every day. She is, as well, very respected by her colleagues on the faculty, always willing to assist in whatever way she can to make Blessed Trinity the very best community of learning for the students we are so privileged to serve.
I know you will join me in congratulating Mrs. Pfeiffer, and wishing her every blessing as she assumes this new role of leadership in our school community. I also take this opportunity to once again thank Ms. Linda Milewski for her eleven years of dedication and service as the first Principal of Blessed Trinity, as well as for her forty plus years in Catholic education. We wish Ms. Milewski good health and God’s blessings as she begins her well-deserved retirement on July 1. She knows that she will always be an important member of our Blessed Trinity Family.
We celebrate this weekend the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This great feast, in which we honor God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is a reminder to us of the awesome mystery of our God, a mystery which, in many ways, is too mind-boggling for us to understand with our mere human brains. Ultimately, however, this ancient feast is a way for us to remember the first thing we learned about God, which is also the most important thing: the fact that God loves us, with a love that is so great and so profound that God wants nothing more than to share his life with us. The love that the Persons of the Trinity have for one another is a perfect love. The Father loves the Son, the Son loves the Spirit, the Spirit loves the Father, in a perfect communion of love. Their love for one another has existed always and will never end. Our celebration today reminds us that the Persons of the Trinity want to draw us into the love they share with one another, and want to make us a part of the communion of love that they share. Aren’t we blessed to be children of such a loving God?
I once again ask you, if you have not already done so, to please make your Catholic Charities and Saint Charles Seminary Appeal donations for 2022. It would be a wonderful thing if we had 100% participation in these important annual appeals from every wage earner and/or household in the parish. Your sacrificial gifts, no matter how large or small, will make a big difference in the lives of those most needy who are served by Catholic Charities, as well as our seminarians who benefit from the seminary appeal. Thank you, as always, for your generosity.
Know that you and those you love are daily remembered in my Mass and my prayers.