Trinity House Community, Leesburg, VA Videos

Happy Feast Day! #jp2 #johnpaulthegreat #feastday #catholic

“For mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.” St. Teresa of Avila is one of two female Doctors of the Church and was canonized in 1622. #stteresaofavila #feastday #catholic #saints

Do you have a prayer room or a prayer corner? How do you set up your home to organize a space set aside for prayer? Let us know your favorite prayer room & home altar ideas! #homealtar #prayerroom #prayer

Ezekiel 36:23-28 Thus says the LORD: I will prove the holiness of my great name, profaned among the nations, in whose midst you have profaned it. Thus the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when in their sight I prove my holiness through you. For I will take you away from among the nations, gather you from all the foreign lands, and bring you back to your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts. I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes, careful to observe my decrees. You shall live in the land I gave your ancestors; you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Catholic families are the building blocks of society. When we strengthen families, we thus strengthen society. Now imagine the strength of a community of families and how that can build up our church and society. #catholicfamily #domesticchurch #community #trinityhouse

In 2021-22, we saw the first sparks at a couple of parishes in northern Virginia. Today, Trinity House Community Groups are fanning the flames of revival at nearly 25 parishes in VA, MD, CO, FL, MI, IN, TX, NH, and Puerto Rico.  And these flames rely on people like you who not only want to see their kids and grandkids, and friends receive the faith, but also look at the state of the wider Church and country and feel called to help.  How does a Trinity House Community Group work? Organized by a core team of parents and grandparents who collaborate with parish or school staff, families gather five times per year, usually on Saturday evenings every other month during the school year. After an early dinner and fellowship, volunteers engage kids with faith-based crafts, videos, or games while parents enjoy a short video and connect with each other during table discussions. Then, families reconvene for fellowship and dessert, while those with earlier bedtimes head home. The result? Parents call it “the missing link” for living out the faith or an inspiring “date night and family night” rolled into one. The spiritual fruit from attending just one, two or five Heaven in Your Home Gatherings includes: * Couples and families forging new friendships and strengthening old ones.  * Inspired parents equipped with strategies to strengthen their marriage and family life and find heaven in their home. * Children excitedly asking their parents, “When is the next ‘Heaven in Your Home party’?”  So today, with this call for revival and renewal made fresh by the pivotal National Eucharistic Congress, we’d like to ask you: Will you take a proactive role in starting a Trinity House Community Group at your parish in 2024-25? Contact our team by sending us a DM or through our website and we’d love to move forward in this mission with you!

For you, for your kids, for your whole family… Find out more at trinityhousecommunity.org

What are the intentions of your family? Are you living them out? Whether you’re needing some guidance in living out the intentions and ultimate goals of your family or if you’re not even sure what those are, follow along for lessons we’ve learned in our years of parenting. Visit our website for more practical tips and resources, as well as learning more about our Heaven in Your Home Gatherings.

Deep down, we all want to be the servant who invests wisely, making a good return for our Master, rather than the one who misallocates what has been given. But even though our ideal is to be the “good and faithful servant,” we struggle to make the right decisions with our resources.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Why is it so difficult to invest our “time, talent, and treasure” toward God’s will for our home, family, and community, his will that we know will result in repairing the damage done by sin and building up God’s kingdom on earth? It’s so difficult because the world and our own fallen nature tend to operate on a principle that is opposed to good stewardship. Instead of allocating our resources toward God’s will, we tend to want to direct them in a way that will increase ourselves—our comfort, our satisfaction, or our image in the eyes of the world. We want to spend our time, talent, and treasure on ourselves every time. No matter how we try to assuage our sense of how we should experience our days or how we should look or what we should achieve, the results never satisfy. Hopefully, once we’ve hit that wall over and over again, we might come to really contend with how to spend ourselves... Here are three practical ways to take your posture towards stewardship to the next level: - Spend time prayerfully reflecting on biblical teachings on stewardship (here’s a compilation). Reflecting on these passages can allow us to gradually move toward a commitment to good stewardship, based on the recognition that everything we have is God’s. - Review your budget and take one small step of faith in the direction of more radical charitable giving. - Give your children a “Stewardship 101” overview. The best way to reinforce what we believe is by teaching it, and these family conversations can begin to change the tide — away from the “Big Me” and toward a heart of generosity.

When you bring together like-minded couples, it’s amazing to see what can happen. When you start to apply the lessons you learn from your community to your life, you can and you will see growth! The universal call to holiness is just that- universal. Imagine if you started pursuing that with the families around you and a holy community was built around you. Do you want it? Visit our website for more information and contact us to learn how to start living this life of virtue in community.

What happens when you start putting Christ at the center of your relationships, and at the center of your marriage? Deacon Renzette and his wife have been married for 28 years and their love for the Lord is continuing to bring them closer together. The world is trying to tear families apart, are you turning to prayer for protection and support of your family? Your vocation of marriage is from the Lord, the way that He is calling you to Himself… give it to Him.

What’s one way you want to grow in your family’s prayer life?

What a joyful evening! Thank you so much to everyone who joined us at St. John’s this weekend! Interested in learning more about our Groups or starting one at your parish? Find out all about it on our website and feel free to contact our team!

Heaven in Your Home Gathering at St. John’s, 6:30 pm No RSVP required, but we’d appreciate if you bring a dessert or drink to share! Contact us with questions.

How does heaven in your home sound? Impossible? Lovely? Idealistic? We believe it’s possible and we want to help you find it- and create it. Parenting is not easy nor is it something we can do alone. It takes a village, right? Come find your village and let’s grow in our vocations and families together. Next Saturday, join us at St. John’s in Leesburg at 6:30 pm for our next Heaven in Your Home Gathering. Don’t worry about a babysitter, bring your kids and enjoy dinner and meeting other families! Parishioners and non-parishioners are welcome. Not local to Leesburg? Sing up for our e-letter on our website to find a Trinity House parish group near you or find out how to start one.