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The promise of an eternal return to spring
Beloved Friends, What a splendid celebration of the Resurrection this past Sunday! Thank you again and again to everyone in our exquisitely beautiful, faithful and talented community who worked so hard to offer a liturgy and experience that welcomed nearly 200 through...
Holy Week & Easter
The music team at Trinity might be having too much fun. Though it might not be possible to have too much fun in church music, I think we’re getting there. Grace and I have had a great time crafting the music for Holy Week and Easter, and though that might be a weird...
Khriah
One of my favorite moments in the Gospel of Matthew (27:51) is read every Holy Week, it is right after Jesus dies, “At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split.” This was never really a passage I cared...
Broken Hearts are Mended, Wounded Souls are Healed
Beloved friends, Many in my generation have inherited things from our parents; some physical, some emotional, the aggregate of which represents various aspects of who our parents were and perhaps still are in our lives. Over the years on one wall or another, either...
It Takes a Village
Hello, my friends! Wow, what a month this has been! Through our concert series starting March 1st to the last Wednesday concert March 29th, we experienced five different types of music; all unique and life giving in different ways. My hope is that you were able to...
And still we follow…
Beloved Friends, We are almost there. This will be our final week with Jesus marking the last days he traveled with us here on earth. This year we enter this sacred and holy church season marking the 3-year anniversary of both Trinity@Home and Trinity@316; our dual...
Team Trinity: Crushing it for the LORD
For the first time in over a month, I have no reminders for you about attending our “Lean-in for Lent Conversations” around Community Engagement. Thank you all so much for attending, it was a wide variety of people over these past four weeks, and I would say somewhere...
Maundy Thursday- Feast of Friends
April 6 –
(Please RSVP by March 31)
Jesus gathered with his friends to celebrate the feast of the Passover the night before he died for revolutionary love. In his Jewish context and tradition, it was a time to remember how God had led the people of God out of slavery, through the waters, through the wilderness, and into the Promised Land. Please join us for our Feast of Friends. Sign up by clicking the image so we can prepare a place for you- and consider bringing a friend who has never been invited to this Way of Love… Read More
Vigil Reading at the Tomb
April 6 – 7
At the end of the Maundy Thursday Service we will begin our “Vigil Reading at the Tomb.” This is a very quiet, personal, sacred invitation to step into a place we often don’t find or make in our lives. A time to sit alone (either at home or in the sanctuary at church) and breathe in deeply as you are invited to read words from our sacred text… Read More and Sign Up by clicking image.
Thomas Merton – Winter Rain
March 25 & 26
Actors Collaborative Toledo (ACT), in collaboration with Trinity Episcopal Church Toledo, presents a staged reading of Winter Rain: Six Images of Thomas Merton. The play is comprised of 6 monologues performed by 6 actors, each portraying Merton at different stages of his life. The play begins in 1941 at a railway station as Merton prepares to travel to Gethsemane to join the monastery and concludes with a posthumous monologue after Merton’s untimely and mysterious death in Thailand in 1968…Read More
A Big o’ Fabulous Night of Black and White Broadway
So, friends, we have reached the end of our concert series. This upcoming Wednesday, March 29th, will be the final concert, and it’s going to be fabulous for many reasons: The music is all showtunes. It will feature Brian Buckner, our Trinity@Home accompanist live...
Fragile? Fragile. FRAGILE?!
Hello my fellow members of Trinity!
Just a few housekeeping items this week, and an experience that has been sitting in my brain.
First- this Sunday there is an Interfaith Passover Seder at Temple Shomer Emunium in Sylvania from 4-6pm. Registration is required, RSVP’s must be made by 3/24. Email Sherry to RSVP. I cannot recommend this enough, I’m planning on attending, and hope to see you all there.
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Journeying Together
Beloved Friends-We have now journeyed through another season of Lent and are approaching the last full week before we arrive at the door of Holy Week. And while we still have a week left, I am already aware of how this year’s journey feels different for me. What I...
Lean In For Lent
Sundays in March: Every Sunday in March George will be hosting lunch and conversations about community engagement in My Brother’s Place after service from 11:15 – 12:15. Come with questions and a rumbly tumbly…Read More
Interfaith Passover Seder
March 26
Please join me at Temple Shomer Emunim from 4-6pm as they celebrate their Interfaith Passover Seder. Listen as they tell the story of the Exodus in the first person, remember the history of their oppression and the recommitment to the cause of freedom and justice for all people… Read More
From Pain to Possibility
Sundays in Lent: Often Lent is associated with sacrificially giving up something (often food-related, but it could also be habitual things), but there is another way to think about Lent as entering into a life of transformation. Traditionally, this was a time of reflection…Read More
Province V-Lenten Bible Study
Mondays in Lent: What if we told you that the usual thinking about suicide in the Bible is wrong? This six-part Bible study will dive deep into several classic Hebrew Scripture events to uncover an innovative approach to suicide ideation and crisis. Using the stories from Jonah, Elijah, Ezekiel, and the Psalms, we will see the lives of these crucial individuals anew when they were in despair and darkness…Read More
Team Trinity
March 29 7pm
The Family’s in the House! Come join us for a night of Broadway tunes sure to lift your spirits. Rumor has it, popular tunes from fantastic shows like Les Mis, Phantom, and the works of Jason Robert Brown will be performed, and many more!! … Read More