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#AdventWord
Deepen your experience of Advent by participating in a collaborative online Advent calendar, combining reflections, prayer, and images. A single word from the Sunday Lectionary readings has been chosen for each day of the season of Advent. A daily meditation (in English and Spanish) and visual image inspired by this word is shared via email, with an invitation to share your personal reflections and photos via social media. These images are shared …
Greening of the Church
December 4 – It is Greening of the Church time on Sunday, December 4 immediately following our 10am Eucharist at Trinity @ 316. Our pre-lit trees, wreaths, garlands and other decor are staged on the first floor awaiting many hands to help adorn our sacred space for Christmas. We have big jobs and little jobs to fit everyone’s capabilities.
Please join us for a wonderful time of fellowship as we prepare our hearts and minds for the birth of the Christ Child!
There’s Room for Every Story
Beloved Friends-
This Sunday we turn the page in our church calendar and begin the season of Advent. These are the four weeks we set aside every year to prepare our hearts to once again hear the story of how love came to dwell among us through the birth of Jesus on that cold dark night in an out of the way place to two scared and almost forgotten would-be parents. It is a story I not only never tire of hearing, but as I grow older, anticipate hearing as a necessary balm for my soul. It is a story passed down from generation to generation infused with the hope-filled expectation and imagination of a new world, a new way, a new reality.
And this year, …
Tormod Tvete Vik – Chelsie Cree
Tormod Tvete Vik: Bringing a modern harmonic language to classic text
Tormod Tvete Vik is a Norwegian composer. A consummate musician, he started his musical pursuit at the bright age of 6, studying violin, and continuing with music composition, arranging, musicology, pedagogy and conducting. He worked professionally as a violinist in his own quartet and string orchestra before, as he states in his bio, “dedicating his career to creating music instead.” With his extensive, impressive resume and catalogue of works, the world seems to be glad he did… and so are we.
Vik’s “Come Unto Me” was commissioned by Mark Pope for the University of Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas. Written for SATB and piano… Read More
Advent Film & Book Study
11/30/22 – 1/18/23
Join us on Wednesday evenings to watch a short video of Pastor Juanita sharing the story she writes about in her book, Learning to Be and then spend time together honoring our own stories and learning what God is calling us to notice in our lives. All are welcome and wanted.
There Are Angels Hovering Round …
Beloved Friends,
This week has been a wonderful reminder of not only what it means to be a part of a growing community of faith in Toledo, but also a reminder of how important our connection is to the wider Episcopal Church. I began the week at a 2-day meeting of our Midwest collection of Episcopal Dioceses, Province V, bringing together all of us who are a part of the Network to Dismantle Racism. We had time for deep conservations …
Giving and Receiving
Beloved friends,
During the last 4 weeks of October this year we are leaning into a time to reflect of what it means to be a part of Trinity; a progressive, inclusive, creative community of faith. One of the responses of that time of reflection will be to respond to the call to make a financial pledge for 2023.
Each week we will hear …
About Humility
Beloved friends,
During the last 4 weeks of October this year we are leaning into a time to reflect of what it means to be a part of Trinity; a progressive, inclusive, creative community of faith. One of the responses of that time of reflection will be to respond to the call to make a financial pledge for 2023.
Each week we will hear …
On Generosity
Beloved friends,
During the last 4 weeks of October this year we are leaning into a time to reflect of what it means to be a part of Trinity; a progressive, inclusive, creative community of faith. One of the responses of that time of reflection will be to respond to the call to make a financial pledge for 2023.
Each week we will hear …
A Testimony of Stewardship
Beloved friends,
During the last 4 weeks of October this year we are leaning into a time to reflect of what it means to be a part of Trinity; a progressive, inclusive, creative community of faith. One of the responses of that time of reflection will be to respond to the call to make a financial pledge for 2023.
Each week we will hear …
Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi
Beloved Friends-
Next Monday, October 4th, is the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi.
Francis astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit, and without a sense of self-importance.
Born in the 12th cent. in Assisi, he is now the patron saint of Italy, animals, archaeologists, merchants, metal workers and the environment; a pretty impressive list to be sure!
St. Francis considered all of creation to be a reflection of the Divine. He called every living creature his “brothers” and “sisters,” …
Celebrate Local Artists & Toledo Streets Newspaper!
October 20, 2022. Join us for an evening supporting the work and artistic expression of Toledo Streets Newspaper. At this event we will showcase photographs taken by those who participate as Vendors at Toledo Streets Newspaper. These individuals took to the streets to discover images which captured our vision, expressed beauty, or are quintessential to Toledo. These photo’s have been comprised into a calendar. Prints of the photo’s and the calendar will be for sale.
God Grant Us Many Years
Beloved Friends,
Today I write to you wearing the hat of one my most meaningful vocations- that of a parent. Kim and I are celebrating Taylor’s 23rd birthday; the gift she is in our lives and in the world. This year brings a bittersweet moment as it is the first of no doubt many years ahead when we are not able to be together for her celebration. As a young adult in the world, she is finding her beautiful way staying both connected to us while also living into a glorious and necessary independence far from home. Some of you have already had the experience of letting go while also still caring for the ties that bind. Others have small children …
How Can We Keep From Singing?
Beloved Friends-
Music is in the air! Over the coming weeks we will be re-united with those who come to Trinity week after week and offer the gift of music. In addition to the continued leadership of Chelsie Cree (Director of Music and the Arts) and Grace Mauk (Assistant Director of Music and the Arts), this Sunday we “welcome home” our four beautiful and talented Trinity choir section leaders: Melissa Toth, Kim Buehler, Bradley Baker, and a new member of this team, Tajj Crowder. These four forces of pure joy and talent …
Coming Home
Beloved Friends-
It is wonderful to be back among you after a time of deep rest and renewal. Thank you to all who worked so hard over the past 4 weeks to keep so many plates spinning- it truly does take a village to feed the hearts and souls of our community and I am so very grateful. During my absence we were reminded that no one person is central in the work of the people; we experienced different voices and leaders and expressions of the holy in all her splendor.
And, yes, it also feels wonderful to
May the Light of Your Soul Guide You
Beloved Friends,
This is the last submission during my summer sabbath time. I hope you have enjoyed the poems and prayers we have offered the past few weeks. I will be back next Friday to pick up where we left off and restart our weekly conversation in this space. I close today with a blessing from the late and wonderful John O’Donohue- I hear this as a kind of commissioning as we move into the season of school starting, programs resuming and the general business of the Fall enfolds us.
I am so very grateful for …
Borderless
Beloved Friends, Until the beginning of September, I will be stepping away from this blog space for a time of sabbath and renewal. During that time, I am offering some of my favorite poems to be solace and strength for our journeys. I am so very grateful for the...