Holy Week at Trinity Episcopal Church

Holy Week at Trinity Episcopal Church

85 West Street • Rutland, VT • 775-4368

Palm Sunday, April 1st
9:30 a.m. Rite II, Contemporary Language


Holy Monday, April 2^nd 

8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer [Chapel]

Holy Tuesday, April 3^rd 

8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer [Chapel]

Holy Wednesday, April 4^th 

8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer [Chapel]

Maundy Thursday, April 5^th 

7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist, Reservation of the Holy Sacrament, Stripping

of the Altar, overnight watch begins

Good Friday, April 6^th 

9:00 a.m. Overnight watch ends

12:00 p.m. Good Friday Office, Veneration of the Cross, Communion 

from the Reserve Sacrament

5:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross

Holy Saturday, April 7^th 

7:00 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter  
(Bring a bell to ring at the first Eucharist of Easter. The 

service begins with the lighting of the first fire of Easter.)

Easter Sunday, April 8^th 

8:00 a.m. Festive Holy Eucharist with choir, Rite I, Traditional 

10:00 a.m. Festive Holy Eucharist with choir, Rite II, Contemporary 

   

11:00 a.m. Children’s Easter Egg Hunt!

March 29th - April 4th

Saturday Night is almost here!  The "Awesome Auction * Divine Desserts * Jammin' Jazz Fundraiser Event" -- Doors open at 6:30 PM, you have until 8:15 PM to place your bids.


Desserts will be sold until 9:00 PM or until they sell out. 


Sunday is Palm Sunday.  


Women of Trinity - meet this Monday at 6:30 PM in the library.  


Tuesday evening @ 7:00 PM - the final Lenten Meditation discussion.  Even if you have not attended the previous discussions, feel welcome and invited to come to this last one.

March 22nd - March 28th, 2012

Thursday March 22nd -- Fr. David will begin again the Thursday morning Holy Eucharist schedule.  The service will be at 10:30 AM in the chapel.

Outreach Team (both local and global) -- meeting in the Brinckerhoff Room after worship this Sunday.

The Pastoral Care Team -- will be hosting a guest speaker on April 14th.  The team will be welcoming Laura Vien, from RAVNAH - who will be talking about advanced care issues and how to start the conversations important to the latter part of life.

The Newest . . .

Weekday Holy Eucharist — Beginning on March 22nd, Fr. David will be celebrating Holy Eucharist on Thursday mornings at 10:30 AM.

Silent Auction Fundraiser — March 30th is fast approaching.  Awesome Auction has 50 items so far, we'd like 50 more!  Now is the time to buy tickets & tell your friends!!  Also, there will be free babysitting in the building.  If you have agreed to donate something or have a verbal commitment from a vendor, please get a signed gift certificate or complete our donation form (with signature) and submit to Wendy - ASAP!

Easter Flower Memorials — We are now accepting memorials for the Easter altar flowers.  You can make a donation to the Easter flowers in the memory of a loved one by submitting your check along with the names to be listed in the Easter bulletins to the church office.  The deadline for Easter memorials is Friday, March 30th.

Rectory Work Day - Sat. - 3.17.2012

Wanted:  Clean - up of the rectory this Saturday, March 17 
                          from 8am-12pm.  

               We need folks to vacuum, clean, lay shelf paper, 
               rake the lawn.  

             

               All hands needed.  Come see our beautiful rectory.

               Thank you,

               Jay Slenker, 

               Jr. Warden

Some Announcements for March 15 - 21 . . .

Vestry Meeting -- Thursday at 5 PM in the library.  Interested Trinity members are invited to sit-in on the monthly meeting, if they so desire.  

Adult Education Team -- Meeting after this Sunday's service.  Your help is requested.  Your   input is needed for the upcoming schedule.  

At 3 PM this Sunday -- the Champlain Cristosal Base Community will meet - the topic is Global Outreach.

Did you know?  --  Trinity hosts a number of "outside" groups during the work week.  For instance, this Tuesday, the Diocesan Interim Priests will be meeting at Trinity Rutland!

From Father David - The Lenten Experience

In most languages, the season of the Church year which we have just entered is known by a word that translates as “Fast”.  “Lent”, however, comes from the old English for the season when days lengthen.  But, as New Englanders, lengthening days may not mean that things became more comfortable; as they used to say of this time of year: “The days grow longer and the cold grows stronger.”  Further, before modern agricultural and food-preservation techniques, late winter and early spring was often a time of hunger.  I believe that this is why T. S. Eliot wrote “April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land.”   

Lent was a lean time, anyway, and there was little choice for many people but to fast.  

This made a virtue of necessity and also preserved foodstuffs that would be available for an Easter feast.  Wednesdays and Fridays were fast days observed with particular strictness.  Of course, perishables that could not be used in Lent were consumed on the day before Lent, giving rise to Mardi Gras or “Fat Tuesday.”  In the medieval English tradition this was called “Shrove Tuesday” because people went to make their confession and be “shriven” or absolved of their sins. We ate Shrove Tuesday pancakes in Britain too, but they were crepes filled with lemon juice and sugar, not flapjacks.

These days we have more than enough food and it takes a determined effort to fast but self-discipline and mindfulness are never wasted.  Lent is a time to exercise both virtues.    “Giving something up” for Lent may sometimes be just a token gesture, but it can be an opportunity, especially if we can challenge deleterious habits and break out of our ruts. 

We can also challenge ourselves by taking up a discipline.  We can pray, study, attend church regularly, offer ourselves in service or add spiritual or physical exercises to our routine.   I once, half jokingly, committed to practicing darts for half an hour everyday.  As I went on, and developed backlog of practice time, the joke became serious and I really did have to develop a deliberate discipline as to time and attention.  My dart game improved greatly.  Maybe I should work on my prayer life to the same end!

So, whether we decide to try fasting, giving up deleterious habits or taking on a discipline of some sort, Lent can be a useful break from business as usual. It can serve as a kind of Sabbath for the year as Sunday serves the week.  Lent can help us pay better attention to parts of life that we might otherwise take for granted or leave unexamined.  

Week of March 8th - 14th

The Keepers Guild Help Needed

Please help prepare the rectory for Father David.  

There will be another work day this Saturday (the 10th) beginning at 8:00 AM.  

If there are other times during the week that you can help out, please call Aaron Tinsman @  558.0137. 

Community Luncheon Meeting

Barbara Hooker is urging all helpers to come for a brief meeting on Sunday, March 11 following worship.  

Reminder:  This Saturday at 11:30 -- Minestrone soup is on the menu.

Lenten Meditation Series Continues

Each Tuesday evening at 7 PM there are some lively discussions about "The Lord's Prayer" in Trinity's library.  

Missed previous discussions?  Not a problem - you are more than welcome to join in now!  

SAVE THE DATE: FRIDAY MARCH 30th

Parishioners and friends

Come enjoy Trinity's 

AWESOME AUCTION DIVINE DESSERTS & JAMMIN' JAZZ

Auction goods and services still being accepted. 

Beginning at 6:30 pm, you will have a chance to bid on:

• Photography by TV/Video professionals 
• Mr. Twitters gift items
• Basket of Vermont-made edibles... est value $75 
• "The Mystery of Grace" sight unseen box of assorted items
• "Celebration Cake" by Master Baker/Cake Decorator Richard Kaufman
• Greens Fees for 2 at Rutland Country Club ...value $130.00 
• Freeman Marcus Fine Jewelry.....gift certificate for $50
• Quest Framing ....... gift certificate for $25
• Antique Clock donated by Alan Grace.........est val $300
• Hand made woolen Kelsey hat made by Karen Speerstra .... value $25 
• Metal artwork from Haiti ..............value unknown 
• Mexican Dinner for 4 people prepared by Bill & Carolyn Meub.. value $160 
• 10 hours of French lessons for 4 by Dana Peterson........ value $400
• Day of Sailing on for 4 on Larry Jensen's ......... value $450
• Contractor for a day ................... val $300
• Guided Nature Hike for 4 ...............val $140
• Guided nature hike for 2 .................val $70
• "Instant" Wine Cellar ............est $140 - $240 
• Bushey's.................gift certificate for $50 
• Hair Trends ...............hair cut valued at $30 
• Vermont Backroad Tours...... gift certif for $150 
• Framed 11 X 14 Peter Huntoon print of Trinity Church .....est. $75
• Johnson Marble & Granite, fabrication labor val $250 
• Vermont Value Dining Pass....................$35 
• Opportunity to Choose the Hymns one Sunday...inestimable(!) 
• Trace of Lace ..............3 bracelets..val $60
• Trace of Lace ......1 bracelet...value $20
• Antique Ruby Red Etched Vase.......est. $60 
• Pyramid 30 minute massage and 1 hour salt cave therapy... $40 
• Boxed China items (Spode cup, jam pot, dinner bell)..... $ 45
• Antique Drop-leaf Table.......................est. value $100 
• Occasional table from Rampone household 
• AND MORE

To Purchase tickets in advance

Call 775-4368