Weekend of June 8-9th, 2024

Dear Friends,

We find ourselves in the middle of graduation season, and so I am happy to offer congratulations to all of our graduates this year, especially those students who will graduate this week from our own Blessed Trinity Catholic School, as well as those who graduated from our diocesan high schools. Besides our Blessed Trinity eighth grade graduation this coming Wednesday evening, we will also be celebrating our Pre-K and Kindergarten graduations on Monday.  We are very proud of all our graduates’ accomplishments, and we wish them well as they move with God into the future. I hope all our graduates know that we love you very much! Congratulations, as well, to our students who are moving on to the next grade level. Enjoy your summer and remember to continue to make God an important part of your vacation days.

We are once again sponsoring a Parish Raffle fundraiser. You should have received a mailing in your home, containing a cover letter from me and five raffle tickets. I would like to explain this fundraiser.

We are participating in this fundraiser with several other Catholic parishes and institutions. We are asking for a donation of $25 for each raffle ticket, and are asking you to please consider purchasing the raffle tickets for yourself, or selling them to family members, neighbors, or friends. The purchaser keeps the right half of the ticket. The left half of the ticket, along with the payment, should be placed in the envelope enclosed in the mailing for return. We also ask you to include any unsold tickets in the return envelope. All tickets and money should be returned by July 12 (please note that this is considerably earlier than past years, because the drawing is earlier).

The raffle will be drawn on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 8:00 P.M. and can be viewed live atwww.catholicinitiatives.org

The prizes for the raffle are excellent. They are all American Express gift cards, and there are 23 prizes in total. The first prize is a $30,000 gift card; the second prize is a $10,000 gift card; the third prize is an $8,000 gift card; and there are twenty $1,000 prizes. 

I am asking every registered family or individual to participate in this important fundraiser. Besides the excellent prizes, the proceeds are of great benefit to our parish. Again, I am respectfully asking everyone to either purchase the tickets that were included
in the mailing or to sell the tickets to someone else. If you didn’t receive the mailing, or would like more tickets to either purchase or sell, there are more tickets available at the rectory.

Thank you in advance for your goodness, and for your willingness to participate in this important fundraiser in support of our great parish.
Know that you and those you love are daily remembered in my Mass and my prayers.

                                                                                    Love and prayers,
                                                                                    Father Olivere