Jer­ry Al­leyne-Nagee

ttcom­mu­ni­ty@hot­mail.com

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Com­mu­ni­ty at Christ the King Catholic Church is get­ting ready to cel­e­brate T&T’s 60th an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence.

Last Sun­day, Au­gust 21, af­ter a two-year hia­tus caused by the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, the T&T com­mu­ni­ty at Christ the King Catholic Church held its cus­tom­ary fund-rais­ing break­fast.

The pro­ceeds of the Tri­ni break­fast will go to­wards en­abling the T&T group to con­tin­ue the 31-year tra­di­tion of cel­e­brat­ing a Mass of Thanks­giv­ing to cel­e­brate Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­de­pen­dence and sta­tus as a re­pub­lic. Were it not for the Covid in­ter­rup­tion, this would have been the group’s 34th Mass of Thanks­giv­ing.

The Tri­ni com­mu­ni­ty is said to have come back with a bang, as they were show­ered with love and kind words of wel­come and many parish­ioners and mem­bers of the South Flori­da com­mu­ni­ty ex­pressed their de­light with the Tri­ni cui­sine on of­fer, which in­clud­ed roast­ed and fried bake, salt­fish buljol, zabo­ca, cur­ried chan­na and aloo, toma­to cho­ka, sausages in Tri­ni sauce, gar­lic cas­sa­va, sweet bread, muffins, crab sal­ad, wa­ter­mel­on, tea and cof­fee. Tri­nis in Flori­da have made a name for them­selves with bel­ly­ful break­fast and pa­trons were, as usu­al, tru­ly pleased with the spread.

Annie Sebro serves breakfast.

The group was over­joyed to have the new pas­tor Fr Joseph Jean Louis lead the re­ces­sion­al af­ter both mass­es di­rect­ly to the break­fast ta­bles to bless the food. The TT com­mu­ni­ty said they were al­so grate­ful to Fr Joseph for en­thu­si­as­ti­cal­ly pro­mot­ing the fund-rais­er, hence en­sur­ing its suc­cess.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Mass of Thanks­giv­ing for the 60th An­niver­sary Di­a­mond Ju­bilee In­de­pen­dence and the coun­try’s 46th an­niver­sary as a re­pub­lic will be held on Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 18, 2022 at 10 am.

The cel­e­brant will be Trinida­di­an Fr Ako Trevor Walk­er C.Ss.R. a priest of the Con­gre­ga­tion of the Most Holy Re­deemer, the Re­demp­torists. He cur­rent­ly serves as Pas­tor of Sa­cred Heart of Je­sus and St Patrick Parish­es in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land.

The TT Com­mu­ni­ty in Flori­da said it looks for­ward to hav­ing Fr Ako with great joy. More­over, they said they are deeply grate­ful to God for see­ing us through the last two and a half years. Please keep us in prayer.

—From Tri­ni-to-de-bone Com­mu­ni­ty, Christ the King Catholic Church, Mi­a­mi, Flori­da.