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Carol Sing

Sunday Dec. 18 - 1:30pm 

Everyone is welcome to join us in spreading the joy of Christmas to a few of our housebound parishioners. We will gather in the Parish Hall and proceed to a few homes in Old Wethersfield and Church Street Extension. Then we’ll return to the Parish Hall for cocoa, cookies and fellowship. Please contact Garth Myers or Bishop Gordon Scruton with questions. 

Christmas Services 

December 24, 4:00 pm

December 25, 9:30 am.

Please consider a donation to Trinity's Christmas flower fund.  Suggested donation is $50.00 - but any and all donations are welcome.

Please mail, deliver to the office, or place in the Offertory Plate your check (with FLOWER FUND on the memo line) to:

Trinity Parish

300 Main St.

Wethersfield, CT 06111

Please include your name and indicate if this donation is a (M) Memorial OR (T) Thanksgiving along with names of the individuals to be remembered.

 Our parish purse ministry allows us to fill purses/bags with toiletries and other items that we distribute to people who are experiencing homelessness or transitioning from a shelter to living on their own.  Please consider supporting this ministry in these ways: 

Monetary Donations

 Make your check payable to Trinity Parish with “Purse Ministry” on the memo line. Checks can be mailed to the office or placed in the plate on Sunday. Or, put cash in an envelope with “Purse Ministry” written on the outside and put it in the plate on Sunday or drop it off during office hours. 

 In-Kind Donations

Toiletries and other small items (e.g., travel-size shampoos, soaps, and conditioners; notepads, etc.) are welcome.  They should be left in the Purse Ministry Room in the basement on the right at the bottom of the stairs near the office entrance.  Thank you for making this program possible! 

ONGOING PROJECTS: 

Community dinners with Hands on Hartford

Next up: Jan 23, 2023 - details

Church by the Pond/Lunch in the Park. details

Wethersfield Food Bank 

South Park Inn 

Soup To Go (for Copprome Orphanage) 

The Environment

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For information on all of Trinity's outreach projects and links to our Outreach Magazine click here

 On Friday Oct. 21, Trinity teamed up with Wethersfield Family Learning to host a potluck dinner party.  The event was organized with Kim Bobbin, Family and Early Childhood Coordinator in Wethersfield with families who participated in the Family Learning Center and included members of the Syrian family we are helping to resettle.

For more information on the Syrian family click here

TRINITY SUNDAY WORSHIP

9:30am

NOTE:  Listen to Sunday sermons here  

Communion options: pick up your chalice as you enter and remain in your seat OR receive Communion at the rail

Masks are no longer required.

 Read the entire updated COVID protocol

MORNING PRAYER

ZOOM Wednesday Morning Prayer @8:30am 

Please leave a contact number at the office (860 529-6825) if you want to participate. 

ONLINE WORSHIP SERVICES

 National Cathedral YouTube Channel - daily worship services, special services, meditations, music and more
Scripture readings for online services:

• Lectionary  section in the Book of Common Prayer
• Google search for "revised common lectionary"
• Electronic Common Prayer (eCP) app (small one-time charge)

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Episcopal Church in Connecticut: ECCT YouTube Channel - meditations, links to regional YouTube offerings, 5th Sunday worship services and more 

 Thursdays - 10 a.m.

Seabury Room

Facilitator - Rebecca Scruton   

Bible Study will focus on readings for the upcoming Sunday. All are welcome. Bring your Bible, notepaper and writing implement.Please contact Maryann at the Parish Office if you plan to attend and indicate if you will need transportation. Call 860 529-6825 or emailoperations@trinityepiscopalweth.org.
 

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   Meditation/Centering Prayer Zoom Group 

"Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10) Wednesday afternoon @4pm  

45 minute sessions will involve: a brief teaching orientation, practice silence together, brief reflection on our experience of meditation. Facilitator: Gordon Scruton To register, receive the Zoom code and initial resource notes, email Rebecca Scruton @ rscruton@gmail.com 

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Richard Rohr Meditation discussions

Saturday mornings 8am-9/9:30am 

We have no set agendas, but simply engage in a wide-ranging spiritual discussion built on our readings of the daily meditations from Rohr's Center for Action and Contemplation. It is free to sign up for the CAC Daily Meditations. Although Rohr is a Franciscan priest, the meditations often come from other theologians, and even from Episcopalians on occasion! For a link to our Saturday zoom gathering, please email Garth Myers at garth.myers@trincoll.edu or garthandrewmyers@gmail.com. We are a small group in number, but mighty in spirit and welcoming love.
 

Click below for prayers & poetry

Including Prayers for Ukraine:

PRAYING PSALM 31 IN SOLIDARITY  

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STATEMENT & PRAYER from The Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States

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STATEMENT & RESOURCES from The Episcopal Church in Connecticut 

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Prayers:

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

Archbishop Justin Welby

Archbishop Stephen Cottrell