March/April, 2010

Trinity Times
March/April 10 Newsletter
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Asbury Park, NJ
March/April 2010
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Providing healing, Proclaiming hope and Practicing God’s unconditional love.
We can't have Easter without
Good Friday
Holy Week & Easter
Palm Sunday, March 28
8 AM Holy Eucharist in the Chapel with reading of
the Passion.
9:30 AM Palm Sunday Procession around Library
Square Park with Saxaphonist Dorian Parreott !
Join in the fun!
10 AM Holy Eucharist with Blessing of the Palms
and a dramtic Reading of the Passion. Trinity
Choir singing.
Monday in Holy Week, March 29
7 PM Holy Eucharist. The Rev. Tom Conway
preaching.
Tuesday in Holy Week, March 30
7 PM Holy Eucharist. The Rev. Gail Bennett
preaching.
Wednesday in Holy Week, March 31
7 PM Tenebrae with Trinity Choristers
Maundy Thursday, April 1
7 PM Sung Eucharist with Footwashing and the
Stripping of the Altar. The Rev. Tom Pivinski
preaching.
9 PM - 6 AM All-Night Watch
Good Friday, April 2
Noon Service of Prayers & Readings on the
Stations of the Cross. Deacon Gail officiating.
5 PM Children’s Stations of the Cross.
7 PM The Good Friday Liturgy. The Rev. Mary
Frances Schjonberg preaching.
Holy Saturday, April 3
10 AM Holy Saturday Liturgy
7 PM Great Vigil of Easter. The Rev. Susan
Osborne-Mott preaching. (bring bells to ring!)
Easter Day, Sunday, April 4
8 AM Holy Eucharist (said service)
10 AM Festival Sung Eucharist with Trinity Choir
& Choristers singing Franz Schubert’s Mass in G
and Hallelujah Chorus with String Quartet &
Timpani. The Rev. David Stout preaching.
Storytime during sermon for Kids. Easter Egg
Hunt following. Nursery available.
On Ash Wednesday I told a story during my sermon that seemed
to touch many people as much as it touched me the first time I
heard it. It's good to hear it again, I think, because the journey of
Jeanne Pocius tells us something about Easter joy.
Jeanne is a trumpeter. When her school district in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, eliminated the special music program she ran,
she had the right to bump one of two classroom teachers and
remain employed. However, each of the teachers was young and
supporting children of their own. Jeanne was single with a
grown son. Retiring, rather than bumping one of those teachers,
"was the only ethical thing to do," she told me.
Shortly after she retired, a trumpeters' organization to which she
belonged got a request for help to find someone to teach brass
instruments at a music school in Haiti. Jeanne agreed to check
out the request and the more she learned about Holy Trinity
School in Port-au-Prince, where the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti
teaches kids from kindergarten through high school, the more it
became "very, very clear that the good Lord wanted me there,"
Jeanne said.
So she went and she was there on January 12 when the earthquake hit. On the stage of the school's Salle Ste. Cecile concert
hall, Jeanne had just risen from her piano bench to distribute
sheet music to young members of a jazz ensemble when she
heard what she described as a "deep rumble."
"Then the floor began bucking like an ocean in a hurricane," she
recalled.
"I remember shouting to the students to run," she said. "I sort of
spun around in a circle, got down on my knees in the middle of
the stage, put my head down and said, 'OK, Lord, this is it. I am
OK with that. You can take me home, thy will be done,' and I felt
absolutely no fear."
The earthquake lasted 17 seconds, the experts said. Jeanne said it
felt like 17 years. (cont’d on page 3)
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Inside: Annotated guide to
Holy Week & Easter
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The Deacon’s Corner
Dear Friends in Christ,
As I was sitting to write this article for the newsletter I received this wonderful meditation from
Denise Pearson. I thought how appropriate this meditation was for our journey through Lent so I
asked her permission to share it with you.
“Dancing With God. When I meditated on the word Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of
the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to
lead, nothing feels right, the movement doesn't flow with the music, and everything is quite
uncomfortable and jerky. When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with
the music; one gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing lightly in one direction or
another. It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully. The dance takes surrender, willingness and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other. My eyes were drawn back to the word “guidance”. When I saw "g": I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i". God, "u" and "i" dance. God, you, and I dance.
As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life. Once again, I became
willing to let God lead. My prayer for you today is that God's blessings and mercies are upon you on this day and
every day. May you abide in God, as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to
guide you through each season of your life.”
For one who loves to dance and is so often running ahead of God when I should be waiting for God to lead, this
image of God as the leader of the dance of life has great meaning for me. It speaks to me of the gentleness of
God’s presences in our lives and how much she/he wants to be our dance partner “through each season of our
life.” The dance is not always easy but we have a partner who knows the dance well if we will just trust our partner to lead us.
I pray that in this season of Lent and of Eastertide you find new ways to slow down and to reconnect with God in
the dance of life. I can't think of a better dance partner to have.
Blessings,
Deacon Gail
Mark your Calendar for our Parish Volunteer Day at our
Saturday Soup Kitchen May 1, 9:30 AM - 2 PM
Come help serve a hot meal to our guests at Trinity’s Soup Kitchen on May 1
from 9:30 AM until 2:00 PM. Sign up sheet will be available as the date gets closer. We need at least 12 volunteers. Note: to volunteer on other Saturdays contact
the parish office at office@trinitynj.com or 732-775-5084.
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This item is especially requested. However,
all non-perishable food items accepted. Take a few extra items
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We can't have Easter without Good Friday (cont’d from page 1)
When the earth stopping convulsing, Jeanne was alive. She began looking for a way out of the wreckage of Holy
Trinity School, rescuing students as she went.
She and four other people lifted a chunk of concrete so that a father could pull his young daughter from the ruins of
her classroom. The girl was alive, Jeanne said, because she had been cushioned by the body of Dominique Lyons, a
school employee.
When Jeanne got out of the ruins, she found herself on a side street where she saw a broken flute, one of the school's
instruments. She managed to put it back together. She began playing "Amazing Grace."
The name of the street? La Rue des Miracles – the Street of Miracles.
Jeanne played, she said, in thanksgiving for being alive and because she knew that the music had to continue
because it could be a source of healing and hope for her Haitian friends – and for herself.
The depth of Jeanne's faith that cannot be touched by the literal wrack and ruin of her world astounds me. Although
slightly injured, she chose to stay in Haiti. She has started a school that numbers 100 students these days. The school
is housed in the open air of a 3,000-member survivors' camp that the diocese has established on a rocky field at its
College Ste. Pierre, now in ruins and still filled with the bodies of dead students.
She wanted to give the children a place to be that gives them some relief from their memories of the quake, their
grief over their dead family members and friends, and, in some cases, their worry that they can't find their families
and don't know if they are even alive.
Jeanne and Pere David Cesar, the conductor of the Holy Trinity Philharmonic Orchestra, Haiti's unofficial state symphony, have also pulled together the orchestra's surviving players along with those of the school's renowned Les
Petits Chanteurs men and boy choir (which has sung here at Trinity) and they are performing once a week around
Port-au-Prince.
They play music, Pere David says, "to let them know that Haiti will rise again."
Too often we want to skip over the introspection, repentance and self-denial to which Lent calls us. We'd rather not
hear about the pain of Holy Thursday's betrayals, Good Friday's violence and Holy Saturday's grief. We know Easter
is coming so why not just get right to the holy noise, flowers and light of that dawning? But how could we understand the depth of Easter joy without the pain that precedes it? We know this from our own lives. Joy is more profound when it is set into the context of the pain we have experienced.
Blessings Shared
Pledging, Loose offering
and General Giving:
January YTD
Pledging & Loose offering: $36,931 $36,931
Total YTD Income: $44,149
(this amount also includes: people paying their pledge
all at once at the beginging of the year, rent, flower fund,
fundraising events, interest from endowment, Trinity
Wall Street Grant, and other giving)
Total YTD Expenses: $55,612
It may be said that Lent and Holy Week began for Haiti at
4:53 p.m. local time on January 12, but Easter, with its bittersweet joy, will come. Every year, Lent and Holy Week
unites us with all Christians. We are always bound to our
sisters and brothers in Haiti because Haiti is, numerically,
the largest diocese of our U.S.-based Episcopal Church
with close to 120,000 members.
This year, Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin invites us to a
different kind of Lent and Easter: "I ask people to be with
us in the desert so that on Easter, all of us in Haiti and all
the Episcopal Church may sing together in joy: 'Alleluia,
Alleluia, the Lord is risen indeed.'"
- Mother Mary Frances Schjonberg
Please use the enclosed envelope to give towards providing Easter flowers and Music.
Names given in memory or thanksgiving will be printed in the Easter bulletin.
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Music a t T r i n i t y
Holy Week Music
all.
From the Director of Music, Diane Caruso
Make plans to be at Trinity for a musically moving Holy Week – choir anthems, saxophone,
string quartet, drums, chant, organ – there’s
something for everyone, all to help make Holy
Week a prayerful, spiritual experience for
Process around Library Square with saxophonist Dorian Parreott
and listen to the moving sound of his saxophone on Palm Sunday.
Experience the darkness of Tenebrae with plainchant, and the joy
of Easter with string quartet, organ, timpani and choir. The Choirs
will sing Franz Schubert’s delightful Mass in G for Easter Sunday morning, along with Johann Sebastian Bach’s
beautiful anthem “Awake O Wintry Earth.”
The Sunday after Easter will feature parishioner Charles Read singing, and trumpet, followed by more special
music during April and the Great Fifty Days of Easter.
Thank You for your gifts to our Piano Scholarship Program
We appreciate those who have given to help keep our Piano Scholarship program afloat, but we do continue to
scrape bottom. If you are able to add a little here and there, it is much appreciated! Do make sure to attend church
on Sunday, June 13, when our Piano Scholarship students will play during the service.
Our Weekend with Mrs. Katherine Dienes-Williams…
…was wonderful! Enjoy some pictures from her time here in
February. Thanks to Katherine for all her work with our choirs,
and for the gift of her beautiful anthem “I Sought The Lord”
written for Trinity Choir and Choristers.
Trinity Prayer List
The most up-to-date list is printed each week in our Sunday insert. Please keep the following members and
friends of Trinity in your prayers this month.
Vernon Phillips
Cliff Somers
Sally Swearinger
John Tarpey
Hartson Cook
Christian Charles
Sergio Paredes
Will Galligan
Michael Stefan
Kim Burrowes
Schwartz
Phil Hoffman
John DeVitto
Aurora Ismalli
Tori Lee
George Coppola
Morgan Pritchet
Brea Pendergast & Family Amanda Hutchison
Bill Wirsing
Cynthia Coppola
Ned Thompson
John Vandenbos
Denise Mantell
Gabrielle Boyer
Maggie Sager
Mary Brady
Howard Smith
Gavin McGrath
Gerald Plotnick
John Thomas Hettrick
Chris Gideons
Thomas Lacey
Elizabeth Minyard
Lila Rose Krotick (1
Ellen Cahill
(serving in Iraq)
Dan Burrowes
Matthew McCormick
year old)
Dorothy Conocchioli
Todd Heller
Nina Nelson
Joseph Carney
Loni Hulse
Jayne Cunningham
Randy Bates
Agnes Asfour
Don Wagenhals
Julia Young
Dale Neville
Pat LaTronica
Yvonne Ruhaut
Lyn Wagenhals
Helen Nickerson
Elwood Baxter
Marie Cooper
Jennifer
Eliot Kramer
Linda Herdeen
Gene Phillips
Nanzi
Shirley Carle
David Raymond
If you would like to be added or would like to add someone else (please get their permission first), call Murphy Judge at 732-361-3155 (before 8 PM
please), or email her at Prayer@TrinityNJ.com by the Tuesday before you would like the name to appear in the bulletin. Names will remain on the
prayer list for 4 weeks.
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Reflections from Trinity’s Prayer Team
The following is by Prayer Team Member, Mary Volak.
"Ah, Lord God!" I said, "I know not how to speak..."
Then the Lord extended his hand and touched my mouth saying,
See, I place my words in your mouth!
Jeremiah 1:6,9
When first asked to pray about becoming a member of the prayer team, my jaw dropped and after a few moments
of silence I answered, "Okay, I"ll do that." Like Jeremiah, I was not very confident of my speaking ability.
Spontaneous prayer was not part of my Roman Catholic upbringing. The words were always there for me to say.
And I tend to be a rather quiet person, listening rather than speaking. However, as I prayed and thought about
being part of this ministry, I knew the words would not be mine, but those of the Lord. I was pretty sure I would
become a prayer team member. Still, I asked God for a sign. My sign came in the form of a fall flat on my face. I
survived with a few minor scrapes and I knew God was watching over me. I knew I had to become a part of the
prayer team. Since doing so, I have found a tremendous amount of joy. With the help of the Holy Spirit I have
been able to pray with those in need, bringing God's comfort, healing, hope, and love. And the words of Jeremiah
are a reminder to trust in God and that he speaks through us, in spite of our inadequacies, if we are open to the
Spirit working in us. "For in Him all things are possible"!
More about the Prayer Team Ministry. During communion, those who would like someone to pray with them are invited to
come to one of the prayer desks located in the back of the church. A member of the Trinity Prayer Team will say a prayer with
you for yourself or someone else. Questions about this ministry? Contact Joanie McCoy, leader of the Prayer Team at 908-2165529 or 732-780-3111 or PrayerTeam@TrinityNJ.com. A brochure about this ministry is in the narthex and on our website.
Pick up your Cross
for Lent
Located at the Back of the Church
Take one, Give one
During Lent, there will be a bowl at the
back of the church containing small, simple olive wood crosses from the Holy
Land. We invite you to take one and carry
it with you in your pocket every day.
There, each time you reach into your pocket, it will be a
concrete reminder of Christ’s daily presence with you.
Use it to help you reflect on what it means to carry Christ
into your daily life. We also invite you to give your cross
away – to a friend, a co-worker, an acquaintance, or even
a stranger, someone who may be going through a difficult
time and who might benefit from this simple sign of
God’s presence. Provided by Sharon Babb and Mo. Mary
Frances.
Trinity Times is the monthly newsletter of
Trinity Church (Episcopal) at 503 Asbury Avenue,
Asbury Park, NJ 07712, 732-775-5084.
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Worship: Sunday 8 & 10 AM,
Wednesday 6:30 PM & Saturday 5 PM
The Saucy
Saturday
Night is
Back!
Hold the date for
one of the best
Supper 10
evenings of the
year: Spaghetti
Saturday, May 15
Supper!! This year
it will be on May
6:00 till 9:00 PM
15th from 6-9 PM
Trinity Church Great Hall
following our
Saturday 5pm
mass. Be ready to purchase your tickets, for it is
ALWAYS a sellout! Come and enjoy an evening of
delectable food and fabulous raffle prizes!
This year’s chairperson will once again be Janise
Haberstroh. Janise is ready to make this year’s event
the best one ever!
More information to come in our inserts, email blasts
and on our website!
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Children & Youth at Trinity - from our Assistant Rector
As I write this, Lent has just begun. We have just taken the first steps on our Lenten journey. I
think it’s very hard for children to understand Lent. They can understand Advent: waiting for
Christmas, for Santa Claus, for Jesus to be born. But it’s much harder for a child to understand
forty days, five weeks of maybe no candy or cookies, self-examination, repentance, and
prayerful waiting for the Resurrection. Children “get” some of this, but certainly not all! The
whole story of Easter can be difficult for them. It’s not really about eggs and bunnies. It’s
about making a hard choice, physical cruelty and death before the story becomes about the
Resurrection. Resurrection is the foundation of our faith, yet I am certain that more children, even more adults,
find Santa Claus easier to understand than the Resurrection.
Maybe we can grasp the meaning of the Resurrection by taking small steps, by thinking of the lesser resurrections
that are possible in our own lives. What have we forgotten? What feelings have we denied or ignored? What relationships have we neglected? Maybe for a child the question can be, “Who does everyone else ignore in your
class? Can you smile at that boy or girl once a day? Twice a day? Three times a day?” “Did they see you smile at
them?” They may not actually do it, but they’ll think about it! “How much time do you spend with your puppy
or kitty?” “Maybe you can be the one to feed the dog (or cat). Let’s see if he/she notices!” These are seemingly
small things, but they are small acts that can have far greater effects. What small resurrections are possible in your
home?
Also, consider having quiet time together. It doesn’t have to be totally silent, just quiet and reflective, maybe while
you’re reading a book or listening to music. Or let it be a time for your minds to wander. You’d be surprised when
prayer starts to happen! Give yourself the gift of allowing the Holy Spirit, the Comforter to be a part of your daily
life.
Now on to another subject entirely. Lacey Folta has done a wonderful job as our Acolyte Master. She spends time
scheduling the acolytes. She is also there before every major service (three on Christmas Eve!) to make sure everyone is there and dressed and ready to perform their respective duties. She has worked with Deacon Gail and
myself to train them. And in addition to training them, she wrote up a wonderful Acolytes Guide Book for them
to refer to so everyone is doing their job well. We are very grateful for all she has done. But college is a busy time,
and Lacey has found that her college responsibilities require more and more of her attention. So we are sorry that
she can no longer continue as our Acolyte Master, but we are grateful for all she has done and the wonderful relationship she has with our acolytes.
I am so grateful for all of you who have given of your time, your talents, and your hearts to our children and
young adults. Bob Junnier just finished making a complete set of child-size wooden liturgical furnishings: an altar,
a pulpit, a lectern, a tabernacle, and a credence cupboard. They’re just beautiful! They will soon be on display in
one of our Godly Play classrooms. We just had another Movie & Games Night with 14 kids in attendance! Thanks
to Linda Roma, Patrick Belardo, and Jill Osis for chaperoning, along with a number of parents who stayed for the
fun. Thanks also to all of you who have been Greeters for the Godly Play classrooms. It’s fun, isn’t it?
I pray that we continue to have a blessed Lent, Mo Susan+
Easter Week and the Parish Office
The parish office will be on reduced hours the week
after Easter. As
always, in case of a
pastoral emergency
and you cannot reach
someone at the
parish office, call the
rectory: 732-774-0907.
Soup Kitchen Fundraiser Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who braved the stormy night
and attended our annual Soup Kitchen fundraiser play,
Rumors. Once again, we were treated to a great evening
with lots of chocolate, lots of friends and lots of laughing! Thanks to everyone’s hard work, we raised about
$8,500 to support our anti-hunger ministry. Thank you
to the Spring Lake Theater Company for their continued support in donating all of the ticket proceeds to our
program and to everyone else who bought tickets in
support of our program!
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A Guide to
Holy Week
Thorns take the shape of a crown.
Popular acclaim turns to public execution. Sorrow and love flow mingled
down. Life ends and begins. Holy Week
tells a powerful story of change, a story
that continues to change the world, and
to change people’s lives.
It’s possible to fast-forward to the
great celebration of Easter and hear only
the story of joy that came on that resurrection morning. But the impact, indeed
the change, will be deeper and more
powerful if you walk with us through
these holy days. Begin with the power
of the Passion story on Palm Sunday.
Witness the light seemingly begin to
fade at the service of Tenebrae. Join the
disciples gathered for the last supper on
Maundy Thursday and discover something about what it means to serve.
Answer for yourself what is “good”
about Good Friday. Experience the profound shift from dark to light at the
Great Vigil on Easter Eve. Catch the first
rays of hope on Easter Day.
We offer the following annotated
guide to this week as a way to encourage you to find your own path through
these important days. As Trinity continues to grow, we are seeking new ways
to observe these meaningful days, new
ways to get in touch with the themes of
death and life, sorrow and joy, hope and
resurrection.
Wherever you are on your spiritual
journey, we hope you will feel welcome
to take advantage of the opportunities
to explore faith and reflect upon the
meaning of Christ’s life, death and resurrection. There is no one simple, or
authorized, meaning to the suffering
and death of Jesus. But there is a depth
most of us have not begun to plumb.
Make time to enter deeply into a
service, or two or three, this week. You
may find more than you can ask for or
imagine.
Thank you to our friends at St. Bartholomew’s
Church, NYC, for help with this guide to
Holy Week & Easter.
Palm Sunday, March 28
Sunday of the Passion
8 AM Holy Eucharist and Reading of the Passion.
9:30
10
AM
AM
Palm Sunday procession around Library Square Park with
Saxophone!
Liturgy of the Palms with Reading of the Passion Drama and
Sung Eucharist.
A day marked by a kind of spiritual whiplash. We begin with a triumphant prelude, followed by the great festivity of the procession,
and then the mood shifting quickly as we tell the story of Jesus’ journey to Calvary. The music reflects this dramatic change by beginning
joyfully and with great extroversion, and dropping in volume and
becoming more introspective during the course of the service.
Nursery available
Monday, March 29
Tuesday, March 30
Wednesday, March 31
As we begin our walk to Calvary, each of these days comes with its
own focus.
Monday
7 PM Eucharist.
Our attention is drawn to the story of the woman who anointed Jesus
before his death. The Rev. Tom Conway preaching.
Tuesday
7 PM Eucharist.
We explore with St. Paul the mystery of the power of the cross. The
Rev. Gail Bennett preaching.
Wednesday
7 PM Tenebrae.
Tenebrae means “shadows” or “darkness.” That is a perfect title for a
service that prepares us so well, in heart, mind, even in body, for the
three days when the Light seemed to fade. It is a haunting service of
readings of Scripture and psalms chanted by our Choristers. The most
conspicuous feature of the service is the gradual extinguishing of candles and other lights in the church until only a single candle, considered a symbol of Christ, remains. Toward the end of the service this
candle is hidden, typifying the apparent victory of the forces of evil.
At the very end, a loud noise is made, symbolizing the earthquake at
the time of the crucifixion as told in Matthew’s Gospel. The hidden
candle is restored to its place and by its light all depart in silence.
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Maundy Thursday,
April 1
7 PM Holy Eucharist with Footwashing and Stripping of
the Altar.
The word “maundy” comes from the Latin mandatum which
means “command.” We follow Jesus’ example of what it
means to be a servant through the ritual of foot washing.
The music reflects our sense of community, using the historic text Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est: Where there is charity and love, God is also there. The Rev. Tom Pivinski will
preach. At the close of this service, the reserved sacrament is
carried out during the singing of Hymn 329 “Now, my
tongue, the mystery telling.” Psalm 22 is then chanted while
the altar is stripped. The music sets us up to wait: the allnight watch begins.
9 PM - 6
AM
All-Night Watch.
Spend time in the Chapel in quiet, in prayer, in watchfulness. (In addition to those who sign up, security will be
present throughout). Sign up in the back of the church or by
contacting the parish office at 732-775-5084.
Good Friday,
April 2
Good Friday is a continuation of the service from the night
before. It is the middle of the Triduum (Three Days). The
services focus on the saving power of the cross. A distinct
aspect of both the noonday and 7 PM services at Trinity is a
devotional reverence of the cross. People are invited to come
forward to touch the cross. It is also a day people often
make private confession with a priest. To do so, simply contact any one of the clergy via the parish office.
Noonday Service.
A service of readings, prayers and reflections on the stations
of the cross. The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg preaching.
5 PM Children’s Good Friday Service ~ Stations of the Cross.
Why do we call this day, “Good?” It is not always easy for
adults to answer, let alone the littlest among us. This short
service, led by Mother Susan, will also be appropriate for all
those who might accompany the kids.
7 PM The Good Friday Liturgy.
The service includes reading of the Passion according to St.
John and the solemn collects, concluding with communion
from the reserved sacrament. The music at this service is
traditionally a cappella – unaccompanied – and in distinct
contrast to the night before, seeking to help us focus on the
meaning of Christ’s passion. The service concludes in
silence. The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg preaching.
Holy Saturday,
April 3
10
AM
Liturgy of the Word.
A brief, simple service of prayers and readings
reflecting on Jesus in the tomb.
10:15
AM
Holy Labor for a Holy Time.
7
The Great Vigil of Easter.
After the service, stay for a bit to help decorate and
spruce up the church for Easter!
PM
Drawn from ancient sources, this is the most dramatic liturgy of the year. The progression of themes
and moods played out on Palm Sunday are
reversed. We’ll begin by hearing the timeless
prophecies of hope. We move from darkness to
light, first by candlelight. We sing the first “alleluia”
of Easter. The church is flooded with light as the
Eucharist is celebrated. Don’t forget to bring a bell
(and one to share if you have an extra) to ring out
the Good News at the pronouncement of Christ’s
resurrection. The Rev. Susan Osborne-Mott preaching.
Nursery available
Easter Day,
Sunday, April 4
8
AM
Holy Eucharist. (said)
A simple, festive celebration in the Church.
10
AM
Festival Sung Eucharist.
Trinity Choir singing music to uplift the soul including the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah"!
Favorite Easter hymns for congregation and choir
enriched and augmented by a string quartet, brass
and timpani. The choir will sing Franz Schubert’s
Mass in G. The Rev. David Stout preaching.
Childcare from 9:45 am on. Come early, bring a
friend, share the joy!
Nursery available
Easter Egg Hunt.
After the service, children will be invited
to join in an Easter egg hunt (weather permitting) around the outside of the church.