Trinity House Community

Thanks to Jordan Langdon for a great conversation on The Families of Character Show!

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From Trinity House Community today: 8 tips for busy families from Pope Francis' new and powerful letter. Ever Elizabeth (Horan) Johnson and I were so moved and inspired by Dilexit Nos -- it's a very difficult to summarize. But we tried. Better yet...just skip our summary and find 90-120 minutes soon to savor the entire letter firsthand.

Great to catch up with #1 NYT best-selling author & Emmy-award winning producer Kwame Alexander at Trinity House Cafe + Market today! Kwame chose Trinity House as a place to write back in the mid-2010s and we reminisced about how my youngest son, then a toddler, would wander around the cafe and bus tables :)

The 10-yr anniv. celebration for Trinity House Cafe + Market continues!

3 months ago this morning on 7/21 our family (4 of our 5 kids, since our oldest was traveling) stepped through the Colts Stadium gates not knowing what to expect. In fact, we were taking our kids to a revival meeting. The closing tent meeting of the National Eucharistic Congress.   The day before—the breathtaking Eucharistic procession, calls from the podium for repentance, our conversations as a family—were still fresh in our hearts. It was a lot to take in. God’s grace is like that. Abundant. Overflowing. Extravagant. It’s said that it takes about 21 days to develop a new habit, and 90 days to make it a permanent lifestyle change. 90 days on from 7/21, I’m looking back on a blurry succession of days—highs, lows, graces, backtracking, unforced errors…— that seem much too inconsistent to declare any “permanent change,” but something new is in the air. And then I remember: faith and revival are not self-justification projects or self-improvement regimes. Revival walks on two legs, as Sister Josephine Garrett said in Indianapolis: 1) “our relationship to Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament,” and 2) “repentance.” The Holy Spirit is doing this work within our brokenness—and any permanent change will come in God’s time. I grew up hearing stories of about revivals from my grandfather, an Evangelical Free Church pastor who founded churches in the 1930s. His rural congregations were often so poor that their offertory was given in eggs, chickens, and milk. A key moment in my dad’s faith life was a 1957 Billy Graham revival in Madison Square Garden. In grad school I wrote papers on the First and Second Great Awakenings. But in Indianapolis my family and I stepped into living history, we knelt, and we met God in the otherworldly silence of that stadium, in the presence of His Eucharist. REVIVAL CAN’T STAY HERE, I saw on signs in Indianapolis. As Sister Josephine put it, “This [Congress] was not the finish line.” "This is the starting line," she said. So today, let's resolve to keep walking with joy and gratitude on the two legs of revival into the race that is set before us.

"When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established..." Last night's Northern Lights + Lectio Divina on Psalm 8, in our own backyard. Wondrous.

10 years ago this morning (10/1), Ever Elizabeth (Horan) Johnson & I opened Trinity House Cafe + Market alongside an amazing team of staff & volunteers, generous supporters and countless graces. And a special word of thanks to St. Therese of Lisieux, a friend of the cafe from day 1 🌹 Celebrate with us! Sat., 10/19 party at the cafe from 2-4 pm Receive our inspiring weekly e-letter: https://lnkd.in/edC4WPvM Share your Trinity House Cafe story below or here: https://lnkd.in/eDJsUSRu Join a widening movement (25 parishes in 9 states) and start a Trinity House Community Group to build community among families in your own parish https://lnkd.in/eGQbUXBM Make a one-time or monthly $10 gift to support the Trinity House Community ministry https://lnkd.in/g5BDqNqW Stop by the corner of Church & Market for coffee or a meal, be welcomed by our amazing staff, and see why this place is so special.