FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 27 TO NOVEMBER 4

7:30H The deceased members of the Bergonzi and Camia Families (Leslie and Marie Bergami)

8:30M Fred Mansfield, Yolanda Dighello, Louis Dighello, and Mathew Mansfield (Loretta Mansfield)

12:05M Salvatore Greco and daughter, Sallyann Greco (Marty and Judy Cassella)

9:00H Violet and John Gargaly, Joyce DeDominicis, and Barbara Conte (Family)

10:30H Joseph and Angelina Ferreira and Durwood “Duke” Bennett (The Pascale Family)

in prayerful memory of the deceased members of the Preisner and DeBaise families at the request of Anthony and Virginia DeBaise.

PRE-BAPTISM CLASSES – The next class is scheduled for this Tuesday, October 30, at 7:00 PM in the Church Hall. Parents or soon-to-be-parents MUST BE REGISTERED MEMBERS OF HOLY TRINITY PARISH. Those wishing to attend a Tuesday class must call the rectory to register, 269-8791.

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING has been moved due to Election Day, Tuesday, November 6 to Tuesday, November 13 at 7:00 PM in the Church Hall.

SPECIAL LITURGY (MASS) FOR THE DECEASED OF OUR PARISH As a parish family we are well aware that change has been brought to many of our families who have experienced the death of a loved one within this past year. We invite all families – as well as all members of our parish family – to a special Mass on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:00 PM. Members of our parish bereavement groups will also be in attendance at his special Mass. Following the Mass, the Parish Hospitality Committee will host a reception in the church hall for everyone in attendance. Every attempt is being made to contact, via mail, at least one member of the immediate family of those who have died between November 2006 up to the present. If, as the date grows closer, you have yet to receive an invitation please know that your loved one will be remembered at this Mass and make plans to attend.

“NEW DAY” / OUR PARISH BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP meets on Wednesday, October 31 and November 21. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM at the Parish Center . If you are experiencing the loss of a loved one, who has passed away recently, or even years ago, please join us in prayer and consolation. Call Eva Colon 294-9398, or Chick Kelman, 265-4546 for more information about the group. In lieu of the next meeting, the Bereavement Support Group will attend the Mass for the Deceased on Wednesday, November 7th at 7:00 PM.

We are grateful to these donors for their generosity to Most Holy Trinity Church . May these souls and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.

“HOPE FOR THE HOLIDAYS” FOR THE BEREAVED -This program is for those who have lost a loved one in death, to explore how to manage the holidays in a simple, peaceful way. There will be time for prayer, input from facilitators, and sharing. The afternoon will conclude with a para-liturgical candlelight service in honor of your deceased loved one. Sr. Mauryeen O’Brien, OP and Carmel Avitable; both facilitators of Archdiocesan Bereavement Ministry will facilitate the program. It will be at the Caritas Christi Center , Hamden on Sunday, December 9 from 1:30-3:30 PM. Requested donation is $10. For directions and registration call 203-281-2569.

ANNUAL COLLECTION STATISTICS AS OF OCTOBER 22, 2007

Total Number of Parishioners: 3,439

Total Number Pledged: 437

% of Participation: 12.71%

Total Amount Pledged: $ 70, 034.00

Total Amount Paid: $ 60,098.75

Average Pledge: $ 160.28

We wish to thank the many parishioners who have made a pledge to the Annual Collection 2007. If you have not as yet made your gift to the Annual Collection,

Please consider making your gift today. Again, thank you for your generosity.

GIVE THE GIFT OF ENTERTAINMENT -2008 ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE for purchase at Holy Trinity School or at the rectory office. The New Haven book is $25 and the Hartford book is $30. Give a great gift and Save $$$. Your ENTERTAINMENT BOOK will include a certificate for a free Entertainment On Vacation membership… valued at $9.95!

OPTIONS FOR ADOPTION GROUP meets on the third Sunday of the month. Those families who have already adopted or families interested in learning the adoption process are encouraged to attend the next meeting to be held at the Parish Center on Sunday, October 21, from 3:00-5:00 PM. For more information about this group please contact Cathy Chagnon at 284-8616 or Melanie Barbieri at 294-9830.

THANKSGIVING FOOD BASKET COLLECTION CONTINUES UNTIL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11. The Christians In Action Committee asks you to remember those in need the next time you do your grocery shopping. It is through your donations that we can bring to our parish families in need a Thanksgiving Basket full of all the fixings to make a holiday dinner (and staples for after): frozen turkeys, canned vegetables, hearty canned soups or stews, sugar, bottled juices, boxed mashed potatoes and stuffing, bottled tomato sauce and pasta, peanut butter and jelly, tuna, cereal, crackers, cookies, coffee, hot chocolate, salad dressing, etc. NON-PERISHABLE ITEMS can be left in the church by St. Joseph …. FROZEN TURKEYS should be brought to the rectory. MONETARY DONATIONS OR GROCERY GIFT CARDS are also accepted and help us pay for perishable items we include in the baskets- cash, check, or cards can be either be dropped off at the rectory or placed in the collection basket in an envelope labeled, “Holiday Giving”. Thank you for sharing your “thanks” and “bounty” with a needy family!

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2008 Tickets: $84 per person or (12 monthly payments of $7. 00 per month)

Reminder: If paying monthly, having your payment in each month helps keep our records accurate, and keeps you eligible to be the monthly “Lucky-1” ! ! ! “Lucky-1” for Week #35 Rosa Landino Captain: Barbara Killen

SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL is in session in the Church Hall during the 9:00 AM Mass. The Sunday Bible School program is designed for pre-schoolers (3-5 year old boys and girls who are potty-trained, please). The program includes arts & crafts, songs, bible stories and learning prayers. Parents wishing to register their children are asked to please be in the church hall between 8:45 AM and 9:00 AM; or call the Religious Education Office at 265-6300.

Sample: Sandwich , Fruit, Juice box or Soda, Snacks, Chips, Candy, Gum, Crackers

Again, this season, Kathy Dietle and the Christians In Action Committee are asking for volunteers to provide lunches for the clients of the Wallingford Emergency Shelter. The shelter closes at 7 AM and does not reopen until 6 PM. The lunches are given to the clients when they leave in the morning to provide nourishment for the day. The lunches are made in your home, with food items that you provide, and brought to the shelter that evening. Any help is greatly appreciated. Please contact Kathy at 269-2267 to schedule your day or with any questions about this important service to our community.

The school community will attend the 9:30 AM Mass for All Saints Day on Thursday, November 1st. All are invited to attend.

The HTS Basketball Tip-off Tournament will be held at the Wlfd Park and Recreation Department Friday-Saturday-Sunday, November 2-4.

NO BINGO- Bingo will NOT be held on Friday, November 2, due to All Souls Day and the weekend Arts & Crafts Fair. We hope you will join us on Friday, November 9th when the chips will be ready for another exciting game night!

ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR CONTINUES ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 - The Crafts Fair will take place after every Mass, in the church hall, featuring crafts created and donated by parish family members. In addition... chances for a raffle, jewelry and home-baked goods will also be sold. The Trinity Ladies Club invites everyone to "come on down" and support this parish event!

KIDS 4 JESUS PROGRAM will meet on Monday, November 5th, from 3:30-5:00 PM at the Parish Center . K4J is a monthly program that excites kids about practicing virtues such as friendship, respect, careful speech, and obedience. It gets the kids to think about and account for their behavior and helps parents to keep kids on track through games, races, and crafts that relate to the virtue and saint of the month. This program is open to kids ages 3-7. Please call Melanie Barbieri at 294-9830 or Mary Flood at 271-3471 for more information.

CREATED, LOVED & REDEEMED BY GOD…

“It’s a good time [during Respect Life Month] to reflect on God’s great gift of life, the many public issues that flow from it, and the priorities we need to have in defending it. Next month, in the November elections, each of us will face the task, in the voting booth, of building a culture of life – or its opposite. Each of us will make that choice as an individual, but we’ll bear the consequences as a community. So we need to choose well.”

- Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM and Bishop Jose Gomez, Statement issued Oct. 9, 2002

THE CATHOLIC DINNER CLUB PRESENTS FATHER JEFF GUBBIOTTI at their next gathering for prayer and Catholic adult education (adults aged 21 and up), at the Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell on Saturday, November 10th. Father Jeff’s topic will be “Living in the Spirit: How to Nurture the Fruits of the Spirit in Your Heart.” Dinner is professionally catered by Boucher’s Buffets at a cost of $25 per person for non-members, $20 for members. Reservations must be made by November 2 by contacting Keith at 860-747-3513 or e-mail him at waterboy777@comcast.net. A free will offering will be taken for the speakers. There is no Dinner Club in December.

XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI AND HOME & SCHOOL PREPARE FOR 16TH ANNUAL AUCTION at the High School on 181 Randolph Road , Middletown on November 3rd. This year the event planners are featuring “A Taste of Xavier”, “a sampling of Connecticut ’s finest restaurants”, from 6-7:30 PM, plus live and silent auctions from 7:45-10 PM. The auction has been a sellout for the last 4 years. Advance tickets are underway at $35 per person. They will be $40 at the door. Anyone interested in assisting in the auction, whether for gift solicitation, ticket sales, or volunteering can contact Joe Lane at 860-347-6079.

MARRIED COUPLES,… ARE YOU DIETING, JOGGING, EXCERCISING, PLAYING GOLF OR TENNIS TO STAY IN SHAPE? What are you doing to keep your marriage in shape? Why not attend a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend and discover what your relationship can be? The next weekend is November 9-11. For more information or to register, please contact John & Bev Maley at 203-364-0836 or bikmaley@aol.com or visit www.wwme.org.

HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR AT THE CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION , 115 Pond Hill Road , Wallingford , will be held on Saturday, November 10th, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM. There will be Handmade Crafts, White Elephant, Country Kitchen, Bake Sale, Basket Raffle, and Holiday Raffle. Come and check out the many wonderful crafted items and baked goodies. Enjoy a luncheon of delicious soups, sandwiches, and desserts. Raffle drawing is Sunday, November 11 at Noon. For information call the church at 265-1694.

MERIDEN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN will sponsor a Mass for Deceased Members on Monday, November 5th, at 7:00 PM at St. Rose of Lima Church , Center Street , Meriden . Mass will be celebrated by Father Isaac Calicchio. Family and friends are invited to attend.

ANNUAL HARVEST PORK ROAST DINNER at Holy Angels Church in South Meriden will be served on Sunday, October 28th, with all the trimmings from 4:00-6:00 PM. Tickets are $10 per adult and $5 for children under 12 years of age. Please come for an enjoyable evening of good company and good food! For information call Mary Byczynski at 235-3822.

WANTED: HUMBLE SINNERS WHO KNOW THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD. These make good servants of the Gospel. To respond to this need, call Father Michael Dolan at the Archdiocesan Vocations Office, St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield, CT 1-860-286-7670 or visit the web at www.vocationshartford.org.

INTER-FAITH THANKSGIVING SERVICE “Give Thanks to the Lord for He is good” An Inter-Faith Thanksgiving Service will take place on Tuesday evening, November 20, 2007 at 7:30 P.M., in the Yalesville United Methodist Church , Route 68 (next to Yalesville School ) in Yalesville. Representatives from the area churches will participate in the service. A light reception will follow the service. All parishioners are cordially invited to attend.

DEMONSTRATION AGAINST EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH AT UCONN In a recent article in the September 2007 “CT Right To Life” Newsletter, “ Connecticut has awarded nearly $20 million to fund projects involving embryonic stem cell research at UCONN in Storrs , UCONN Health Center in Farmington , and Yale and Wesleyan Universities . According to statements in the Hartford Courant, researchers at those institutions intend to obtain the embryonic stem cells from frozen embryos, “leftovers” from in vitro fertilization, which will kill these embryonic human beings. In addition, at least one state funded project at UCONN will involve cloning human beings for the purpose of killing them within the first two weeks of life in order to take their embryonic stem cells. CRLC is planning a demonstration at UCONN Health Center in Farmington on Sunday, November 4 from 2:30 to 4:00 PM to protest the killing of human beings being created through either in vitro fertilization or cloning. Please come to protest…the state’s policy to “clone and kill” human beings!” – CRLC, Sept. 2007. Call 203-757-5213 for more information.

THEOLOGY ON TAP, “serving the finest in Speakers, Conversation and Theology”, presents “THE BIBLE IS FOR CATHOLICS, TOO!: Find Out How To Read And Understand Sacred Scripture” on Wednesday, November 28 from 7:30-8:30 PM. Father Dairo Diaz, Pastor of St. Louis Church in West Haven will be the guest speaker, at the Playwright Restaurant and Pub, 144 Temple Street, New Haven. There is a suggested offering of $5.

REGISTERED NURSED OR LPNS- Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care, a Catholic home health care agency licensed by the State of Connecticut is looking to fill various positions. Please contact Gretchen Rossi at 203-238-1411 for more information.

MOHEGAN SUN CASINO BUS TRIP/FUND RAISER for SCOW (Spanish Community of Wallingford) takes to the road on Saturday, November 10th at 4:00 PM from the SCOW Office at 284 Washington Street (the former Wlfd Senior Center ). The cost is $30 and must be prepaid. For more information or to register, please call 265-5866. Let the good times (and the good luck!) roll. Come-On Along and be a big winner while helping SCOW.

Masses that day will be 8:30 AM, 12:05 PM, 5:30 PM and 7:00 PM Mass in Spanish

(* the 6:30 AM Mass was discontinued. The intentions for that Mass will be prayed for at the 8:30 AM Mass)

THE FEAST OF ALL SOULS The Feast of All Souls will be celebrated on Friday, November 2nd. Each year the Church sets aside a day to remember all the Faithfully Departed. Enclosed in your envelope packets you will find the All Souls envelope. You are asked to return your All Souls Envelope as soon as possible. All envelopes received will be placed in front of the altar for the month of November. All Souls envelopes are also available at the entrances of the church. MASSES FOR ALL SOULS DAY WILL BE 8:30 AM, 12:05 PM (it’s also First Friday), 6:00 PM Mass in Spanish with a procession to the cemetery. ALL SOULS DAY is not a holy day of obligation but we encourage everyone to join us for the Mass on Friday, November 2nd at to remember our deceased loved ones. HOLY HOUR WILL BE AT 8:00 PM on Friday November 2.

The Parish Arts & Crafts Fair will be held in the church hall on Saturday, November 3, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. featuring more than 35 craftspersons, a bucket drawing, and raffle. A "FREE" prize-every-hour will be given away (winner must be present) at 10 and 11:00 a.m.; 12 noon; 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. The fair will be highlighted by a VISIT FROM SANTA CLAUS who will arrive at the fair at 11:00 a.m., returning to the North Pole at 1:00 p.m. Parents are invited to take pictures of their children with Santa, free-of-charge.

A “COUNTRY KITCHEN", offering donuts, muffins and bagels in the morning will serve soups, sandwiches, home-made pies and beverages beginning at 11:30 a.m..

The Fair is sponsored by TLC (Trinity Ladies Club). Chairperson of this event, Peggy Phelan, is happy to announce that all available 35 tables/spaces have been "rented" in addition to TLC crafts, baked goods and home-made fudge. The parish tables will include CRAFTS prepared and donated by parishioners; HOME-MADE PIES and JEWELRY (used, but in perfect condition). All proceeds from the Craft Fair are donated to the parish!!!

Parishioners, who make HAND-MADE CRAFTS, are asked to donate at least one of their God-given talents to the Arts & Crafts Fair. Anything you can sew, knit, crochet, paint, make out of wood or ceramics, arrange with flowers, etc., etc., would certainly be appreciated. A traditional feature at the Parish Craft Fair is the sale of HOME-MADE PIES. If you bake pies please consider donating one to the fair. Pies may be dropped off at the rectory between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.; or in the church hall between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m. on Friday, November 2; or anytime after 9:00 a.m. in the church hall on Saturday, November 3. JEWELRY is also a big seller at the Fair! Be sure to donate the jewelry you no longer wear and bring it to the rectory during office hours.