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Sunday Feb 5th

1-4

Drop by her home to 

support Copprome Orphanage

as you wish Ginger a Happy 80th Birthday

and enjoy some light refreshments.

Contact Ginger at ginger43@cox.net for details.

 You still have time to register for a 2-Day VISIONS, Inc. workshop.

VISIONS Inc. is offering three 1.5 day workshops for those within the Episcopal Church in Connecticut community who are interested in expanding ideas and creating community around concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
Each workshop combines personal and group experiential learning, conceptual theory, and opportunities to practice new approaches. Some highlights from the workshop offered are:

• Identify previous unconscious biases and misinformation in yourself, in others, and in organizations.
• Communicate more effectively across difference and through difficult conversations.
• Recognize personal, interpersonal, institutional and cultural barriers to inclusion.
• Understand the ongoing personal effects of historical and contemporary exclusion and oppression. For example, the effects of sexism on people of all gender identities and expressions, including cis-gendered men and cis-gendered women.

The workshops will take place on Zoom. The first session is full but there is still space available in the second two. 

• January 10-11, 2023 - Full
• January 18-19, 2023
• February 23-24, 2023

VISIONS, Inc. is one of the various programs ECCT is offering to satisfy the requirement in Resolution 7 from our 2020 diocesan convention that calls for all clergy, lay leaders, vestries, church and diocesan staff, and those appointed to diocesan committees to complete a course on dismantling racism.
Space is limited and the two remaining sessions are filling up. Register today for the session you would like to attend.

REGISTER FOR JANUARY 18-19

REGISTER FOR FEBRUARY 23-24

For further information about the program contact The Rev. Ranjit K. Mathews, Canon for Mission Advocacy, Racial Justice & Reconciliation, at rkmathews@episcopalct.org.
For questions regarding registration contact Ms. Bernice Jackson, Administrator for Licensing and Training, at bjackson@episcopalct.org. 

ONGOING: 

Community dinners with Hands on Hartford

Next up: MARCH 27, 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

 Qigong classes, which began January 3rd and will continue through February 28th, from 12:00-1:15 p.m. are being offered via ZOOM with the expectation that the classes will eventually be given in the Parish Hall.  There is a fee for joining.  

For additional information please contact Denise at 111dmg@cox.net 

 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! 

 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