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Trinity Church E-Pistle

May 7, 2009

Spring showers are definitely here! There's no question about that. Trees and flowers are blooming. People are out in their yards planting and working. It's a wonderful time of year. For the first time this season, we had the windows of the house opened wide to let the spring air in and the breeze to pass through. The house has a completely different feel when the windows are open. The "stale" air of the winter can find its way out and the smells and feeling of spring can find their way in. Something fresh, something new, our senses come alive in a renewed way.

So too it is with our souls. We have seasons of winter. We close the windows and "hunker" down to endure the cold and dark. But, Easter comes. Alleluias resound. New life blooms. Baptismal waters nourish. I invite you in this season of new life to open the windows of your soul and allow the gentle breeze of the Holy Spirit to enter in. Open the windows to let out the stale air of bitterness or anger, of despair or jealousy and allow the winds of life, the fragrance of hope, the gentle breeze of God's love to renew you.

This is a wonderful time of year and we live in such a beautiful place. We are indeed blessed. Throw open the windows. Let in the gentle and life giving breeze of the Spirit. Open yourself to new life and new possibilities. I think you'll be amazed by the beauty and gift of that which will bloom in your soul. Spring is in the air!

Peace,

Paul+

Worship & Education

Sunday, May 10, 2009
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Click here for Sunday's Lessons.

8:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist, Rite I
(Traditional Language, no choir)

Sunday morning childcare, for infants to 3-year olds, is available upstairs in the Nursery in Room 202 from 8:45 a.m. until the conclusion of the 11:15 a.m. service.

9:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
(Contemporary Language with choir)
The 9:00 a.m. service is perfect for families with children! Children may begin the service upstairs in Children's Chapel (Room 201) and then join their families for communion. If you prefer to worship together as a family, children are always welcome in church.

10:15 a.m. - Christian Education for all ages!
Immediately following the 9:00 a.m. service
children have choices based on their age:

children through 6th grade report to their classrooms for Sunday School.

Rite 13 and J2A students (grades 6 - 9) gather in their own dedicated spaces on the lower level.

Sr. High students (grades 10 - 12) meet in the Parlor.

For Adult Forum Hour, enjoy coffee, tea and choose from:

In Pierce Hall, Finance and the Trinity website are the focus of a Trinity Task Committee report

Discuss today's readings in the George Thomas room with the Rev. Gordon Graham

11:15 a.m. - Holy Eucharist (Rite II) & Confirmation (Contemporary Language with choir)
The 11:15 a.m. service offers a slightly more classic liturgy, with Mass settings sung by our gifted choirs. If you enjoy the rich traditions of Anglican worship, this service is for you.

Weekday Morning Prayer in Eastertide
7:15 a.m. Led by Curtis Hoberman, in the choir section.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
12:10 p.m. Holy Eucharist with homily.

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
5:30p.m. Holy Eucharist with prayers for healing

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
5:00 p.m. Evening Prayer

The church is open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. weekdays for meditation and prayer.

Worship Leaders

May 10th

8:00 a.m.
Reader: Nancy Metcalf
Acolyte: Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes
Chalicists: Ann Zultner
Ushers: Tim Munoz, Charles Townsend, Daphne Townsend

9:00 a.m.
Reader: Sylvia Temmer
Intercessor: Louise Dunham
Verger: Juliet Richardson
Ushers: Connie Brown, John Matthews, Beth Walker, Bill Walker, John White
Chalicists: Grant Fraser, Nancy Metcalf, Dorothy Moote, Peter Nalen, Jim Phillips
Acolytes: Malcolm Richards, Benjamin Musoke-Lubecta, Julia Saltsman
Audio: Marc Sibilia

11:15 a.m.

Reader: Kathy Rohrer
Intercessor: Jean Stephens
Verger: Juliet Richardson
Chalicists: Noreen Duncan, Louise Dunham, Don Mann, Bruce Woodger
Acolytes: Jolanis Alexandre, Rosemary Parish
Ushers: Juris Apse, Peter Bonette, Joyce Kelleher, Ruth Thurmond Scott
Audio: Tom Mellis

May 17th

8:00 a.m.
Reader: Jean Gorman
Acolyte: Lynne Davis, Van Davis
Chalicists: Curtis Hoberman
Ushers: Juan Carlile, Ted Kane

9:00 a.m.
Reader: Brad States
Intercessor: Dianne Paulsell
Verger: James Scott
Ushers: Brett Boal, Bill Hackett, Verna Matthews, John Tomasulo
Chalicists: Betty Ayers, Hank Bristol, Ira Lackey, Sylvia Temmer, Connie White
Acolytes: Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes, Christian Schade, Maddie Schade
Audio: Michael Unger

11:15 a.m.
Reader: Rob Lanchester
Intercessor: Mark McConnell
Verger: James Scott
Chalicists: Eric Baldwin, Donna Laessig, Maureen McCormick, Phil Unetic
Acolytes: Andy Schmid, Niccolo Bechtler
Ushers: Lloyd Carver, Bob Senko, John Shea, Bruce Woodger
Audio: Art Martin

A Thank You from Crisis Ministry

To our Trinity friends,

We are so thankful to you for your involvement in wonderful gatherings of the last two weekends (April 25 and May 3) that helped neighbors in need who are served by the Crisis Ministry.

Footprints 2009, chaired for the second year by Beth Fitzgerald, featured its first food collection and run, along with about 200 walkers and runners, including Paul Jeanes, and still managed to be the smoothest we've ever experienced! Committee support from Reaney Kunkler, Leslie Linnehan, Ildiko Antal, and Tom Cooper, who produced the printed materials, and great participation and support from Trinity parishioners and their friends, families, and colleagues, helped Footprints to raise nearly $16,000 so far (the contributions are still coming in). Thank you!

The concert featuring Handel's Coronation Anthems performed by the combined choirs of Trinity Church and Church of the Redeemer Bryn Mawr was beautiful in two ways: its transcendent music and its giving spirit. We are grateful to Tom Whittemore and to the choirs for generously donating the proceeds amounting to some $2,000 to Crisis Ministry's hunger and homelessness prevention programs.

-The steering committee, staff, and volunteers of the Crisis Ministry.

Send Your Mother A Message of Love for Homefront

This Mother's Day, Sunday, May 10th, there's no better way to show your mother -- or any special woman in your life -- how much you care than by helping someone else in her name. With a tax-deductible donation to HOMEFRONT'S MOTHERS' FUND, you can help homeless mothers right here in our community care for their children. To be part of this wonderful tradition , CALL 609-989-9417 EXT. 114 and HomeFront will send whomever you designate a special Mother's Day card noting your gift in her honor.

Integrity Eucharist &
Meeting Here,
May 12th, 7:30pm

Integrity/Princeton, the Episcopal gay and lesbian outreach for Trinity Church and Central New Jersey, will hold a Eucharist and meeting on Tuesday, May 12th, at 7:30 pm, at Trinity Church, beginning in the Sanctuary. The Rev. Paul Jeanes will be celebrant and discussion leader following the service in Room 208. One of the topics will be the upcoming General Convention, to be held in Anaheim in July, which should have a large Integrity presence. For more information, please contact Paul Raeder at 609-683-5111 or praeder@princeton.edu
We look forward to meeting old friends and new. All members of Integrity and friends are cordially invited to join us.

Eric Garner, Ready to Help!

Hello Trinity Church,

My name is Eric Garner, and I am a first year student at the seminary across the street. You may have seen me about the church with growing frequency over this last year, and hopefully you will see me even more frequently throughout next school year as I intern here.

Being a second year seminarian recently out of my undergraduate college, I am not particularly abundant in resources. However, I am fortunate to have my tuition covered by the seminary, thus seriously cutting down on the amount of loans I have needed to take out for my education.

My largest expense here is paying for my room and board throughout the year, what's more, so long as I live on campus I am required to purchase the seminary meal plan.

And here is where I make a request of you. I was hoping that if any of you who live close the church would be willing to take a seminarian into your home. I would be more than happy to discuss ways in which I might be able to help with chores, watching children, or others ways in which to contribute to the household. Thank you for reading through this message.

Go with God.

Eric Garner
408.250.3151
eric.garner@ptsem.edu

A Christian Approach to Yoga

Last chance!
The final class is Friday, May 15th at Trinity

Join local yoga teacher, Linda Domino, for a yoga class that incorporates scripture, Christian music, and prayer. In addition to its proven health benefits, yoga is a wonderful way to calm the mind and make time for God. The last Class will be held on May15 from 9:15-10:30 am. in Pierce Hall. All are welcome! No experience necessary. Please sign up at the community bulletin board. A $10 donation per class is requested. Contact Linda at 609-306-9025 or LDomino@comcast.net with any questions.

Author Kelly McMasters to Read May 15th
Trinity Church Reading Series

Kelly McMasters will read from her new book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town on Friday, May 15th, 7:00 p.m. in the George Thomas Room at Trinity.

McMasters' latest book demonstrates powerfully that-even with the evidence on their side-justice is elusive, particularly when it involves a town that everyone, including those who live there, regards as disposable. Kelly McMasters' essays and articles have appeared in such places as The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Newsday, Elle D�cor, and Time Out New York. She teaches writing at Columbia University and mediabistro.com and is the co-director of the KGB Nonfiction Reading Series in the East Village.

All are welcome to the reading--admission is free and a reception will follow.

Thank you to Lauren B. Davis, Trinity Church's Writer-in-Residence, for arranging another wonderful evening. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Lauren at 609-430-0321.

Gordon Graham's Notes on
This Sunday's Readings

This week three much loved passages make up the readings. The first tells the arresting story of an encounter between a curious Ethiopian and Phillip the Evangelist (not Phillip the Disciple). The second is from the most frequently quoted Epistle not by Paul - the first letter of John, which boldly and unqualifiedly asserts that 'God is love'. In the Gospel passage, Jesus uses the metaphor of the True Vine to describe his divine role, a metaphor almost as deeply engrained as the metaphor of the Good Shepherd (from last week). But how do these familiar passages relate to each other? The answer is that together they reflect three fundamental truths about Jesus that lie at the heart of the Christian faith. First, Jesus is the suffering servant to whom Isaiah, the greatest of all the Jewish prophets, looked for Israel's salvation. Second, God and love are so deeply intertwined that even a 'sheep led to the slaughter' is a far more adequate means, and expression, of God's saving power than any 'conquering hero' would be. Third we will only be transformed into the image of the God of love if we allow our lives to become wholly dependent for their vitality on life in Christ. Apart from Christ we 'can do nothing', and may as well be withered branches, at most worth throwing on a fire. God is love, but the price of divine love (in human terms) is high. That is what Jesus showed, and what human beings often struggle to acknowledge.

Elly Matsil is
Even More Excited:
53 Cartridges
Turned in so Far!
Trinity Receives $3 for every Used Ink Cartridge...

Any used, ink cartridge, from any brand of a printer or fax machine, earns Trinity Church a
$3 credit when you recycle the cartridges back to us. Please leave them in the basket under the table in the receptionist's area.
Thank you!

Please Keep Donating Those
McCaffrey Receipts!

It's the easiest
fundraiser ever!
The Crisis Ministry earns 1% of your McCaffrey's grocery shopping receipts, courtesy of...McCaffrey's!
The receipts need to be less than 6 months old.
Please leave the receipts in the basket on the receptionist's area. The Crisis Ministry picks up the receipts - and all the food you generously donate and place in the red wagon - weekly.

THIS SUNDAY
Next Trinity Task Force Committee
Report is on
Finance & The Website

The Parish Task Force Committees that were formed last fall continue their presentations on their work and findings. Each Sunday we will hear two committees, each being given twenty-five minutes to appear. As our rector Paul Jeanes stated in a message to the committees, "This is to give an opportunity for the parish community to see your work and engage in a process of conversation. This is not to re-open the debates, but rather to present your work and findings." Thank you, thank you to all the parishioners who have volunteered on these committees;your proposals and recommendations will be on the agenda for the next Vestry retreat, where they will be prioritized and evaluated.

Sunday, May 10
Finance
Web Site

Sunday, May 17
Music
Liturgical Space

Sunday, May 24
Aesthetics
Signage, Lighting, etc.

Sunday, May 31
Pastoral Care
Outreach

THIS SUNDAY
The Right Reverend
Sylvestre D. Romero, Assistant Bishop of our diocese, will be with us on May 10th
as our Preacher and Celebrant

Newcomer Potluck Dinner
on
Sunday, May 17th, 6pm
in Pierce Hall

Newcomers, here's an opportunity to ease yourself into the Trinity family, a way to get to know us a few faces at a time without feeling overwhelmed. At our Pierce Hall Potluck dinner you'll meet members of the Vestry and various committees
of Trinity Church, and we'll give you a copy of the church directory, so you can take notes.

(it helps, we've been told, to keep track of the folks you are meeting). You're considered a newcomer here at Trinity if you joined us anytime from September 2008 to today. We want you to have a pleasant Sunday supper in a family style, meaning everyone sharing the meal at a large table. So, welcome singles, doubles, whole families!

Please rsvp to Paul Jeanes at
jeanesp@trinityprinceton.org

Report in,
All Graduates!

Graduates, report in by June 5th! Are you graduating this year? Please allow us to celebrate your achievement on Sunday, June 14th at the 10 am service. Graduates (High school, college and beyond!) will be listed in the leaflet and in E-Pistle. Please submit graduates' names to Alison Roth (rotha@trinityprinceton.org) by June 5th.

Memorial Garden Remembrance
on May 17th

MAY 17th IS MEMORIAL GARDEN REMEMBRANCE DAY
Please join us in the Memorial Garden on Sunday, May 17th for a few moments after the 11:15 service to thank God for the beauty of our church and grounds and to remember loved ones and friends of Trinity who are no longer with us.

Trinity Rummage Raises over $23,000 for Outreach!

A cheer went up from the rummage crowd when Reg Bishop appeared at the Pierce Hall entrance door at 9am (he's used to hearing that), but this year's sale was different for our 87-year old chairman. He saw a new rector, Paul Jeanes, walk down the steps to stand eye-level with the 350 plus shoppers to greet and shaketheir hands as they entered. Here are our favorite statistics from this year's sale: 25 people in line at 6:30am.; 350 shoppers arrived by 9am.; 163 Trinity members (and non-members) volunteered over the 3-day sale and confounding all reports about a recession, costume jewelry and pocketbook sales increased to $1280!

Reg Bishop (left) and
Jonathan Craig

Our Next Movie is
Martin Scorcese's
The Last Temptation of Christ
Friday, June 5th,
10am
at Trinity Church