Trinity Church E-Pistle April 22, 2010
Forgotten

Gabriel Faure


I write my reflection today after receiving a call  that I had forgotten to show up to take a service for another priest.  Busily going about my work, people coming in and out of my office, preparing for Sunday, trying to get through the pile of papers on my desk, thinking things were in control and I was on schedule, then the phone rang.  "Did you forget that you were to substitute today and celebrate the Eucharist for us?"  A flash of panic ran over me because the answer was obviously - YES.I completely forgot.I didn't have it in my beloved Blackberry and therefore it was out of my mind...forgotten.  Busy about my tasks having no idea that people were waiting for me, expecting me to show up and I didn't.  I have been told that 90% of the job is showing up.  Presence.  Just being there.

 

I don't like forgetting, nor do I like being forgotten.  For many in our world their sense of self is that of one who is forgotten.  The world is too busy.  Their friends are too busy.  Their family is too busy.  Maybe God is too busy, too.  There are so many people who are waiting for someone to show up.  People waiting for someone to show them that someone cares.  People waiting for someone to show them that they have not been forgotten. 

 

A primary job for Christians and for me as a priest is to show up and make sure people know that they are not forgotten.  Far too many people, far too many places, far too many cries have indeed been forgotten by our world, but God does NOT forget.  God does not get too distracted.  God does not get too busy.  God does not use the excuse, "Oh, sorry.  I didn't put it in my Blackberry." Today, I blew it.  I forgot.  But...God did not and does not forget. God remembers.  God shows up always and everywhere - even when we don't.

 

Loving and ever present God, in this hurried and distracted world help us, help me, to remember those people and causes that seem to have been forgotten.  Help us to show up and be present.  Help us to enflesh your presence in the world so that all may know that they are not forgotten. Amen.

 

Peace,

Paul


I welcome your comments;

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Worship and Education
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Click here for this 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 a.m. service.

9:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist (Rite II) & Christian Education
(Contemporary Language with choir)
The 9:00 a.m. service is perfect for families with children. 
Children join in the opening procession and hymn and head upstairs to the Children's Chapel (Room 201). At the Peace, the children return to their families as everyone prepares for Eucharist. If you prefer to worship together as a family, children of all ages are always welcome in church.

10:00 a.m. - Christian Education for all ages! Immediately following the 9:00 a.m. service, children have choices based on their age:
Children lead the dismissal at the 9:00am service, and the process out the transept door and report to their classrooms for Sunday School:
  • Rite 13 ( grades 7-8) meet in room G18
  • J2A students (grades 9-10) gather in room G09 . 
  • Sr. High students (grades 11 - 12) meet in room 111 (aka, the parlor). 
For Adult Forum Hour, choose from:
  • In Pierce Hall, welcome Herb Levine, executive director of the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness.
  • In the George Thomas room,  "Anglican 101", a primer to prepare adults for Confirmation or for anyone who would like an Anglican "refresher course", continues, taught by Father Paul.
  • In Flemer Library, seminarian Matt Bollinger leads Bible study.

11:00 a.m. - Holy Choral Eucharist
(Rite II) Contemporary Language with choir

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

12:10 p.m. Rite I Holy Eucharist with homily.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
12:10 p.m.  Holy Eucharist, Rite II
5:30 p.m
. Holy Eucharist & Healing

Monday-Friday
5:00 p.m. Evening prayer

The church is also open weekdays from 8am to 8pm for private prayer and meditation.
Please join us for
Sung Compline and Evensong

Gabriel FaureCompline at
7:30 p.m.

May 16th

Evensong at
4:00 p.m.

May 2nd


"Princeton to Port au Prince"
Our concert to benefit
"Classrooms for Haiti"
Sunday, May 16, 3pm-6pm
Stockton Street lawn
Haiti concert flier

Our dynamic poster and fliers in brilliant red and yellow Caribbean colors have been printed; now we need YOU to help us spread the excitement about

"Princeton to Port au Prince", our parish's first, outdoor public concert organized by our Trinity Outreach. The children of Haiti need to have their schools rebuilt; we can help by inviting our friends to join us for something NEW and DIFFERENT - Haitian Compas music! Caribbean food! And all happening

in our our front yard.


Remember to bring a lawn chair or blanket to this wonderful afternoon of music and dance entertainment featuring DJAZZNOU playing Haitian Compas Music; 5+1 Westminster Winds, a wind quintet with Trinity parishioner Joy Bechtler, soprano; two, local bands: The Tone Rangers, rock band and The Cherrypickers, a bluegrass band; and Haitian Folk Dancers, a children's dance group affiliated with the Haitian Center in Trenton.

 

Enjoy a delicious Haitian dinner from Trenton's Mommie Joe's Caribbean restaurant for $10, a $5 hot dog, chips and unlimited lemonade dinner for the kids and a Mojito, wine and beer cash bar with Trinity bartenders serving you.There will be plenty of face painting and other activities for the kids and the whole family.

 

If you have questions or want to learn about volunteer opportunities for the concert,  please contact Don Mann at [email protected]


If you can distribute fliers and alert more people by email about the concert, please contact Communications

Coordinator Alison Roth at

[email protected]


Take a stand against racism
Friday, April 30th, 7 p.m.
in Pierce Hall


Take a

"STAND AGAINST RACISM"*


 Traces of the Trade documentary


And Join The Rev. Paul Jeanes and

The Rev. Daphne Hawkes

for a film and discussion of

"Traces of the Trade"

An Emmy-nominated film by Princeton University graduate Katrina Browne '89 on the complicity of the North in the 200-year U.S. slave trade.

 

Friday evening, April 30th

Pierce Hall

Pizza served at 6:30pm

Film to begin at 7pm

 

RACISM HURTS EVERYONE

 

Please join us

And Take a Stand for Peace, Justice,

Freedom, and Dignity for All

 

RSVP:  Ruth Scott - [email protected]

Trinity Outreach Committee

 

*"The Stand Against Racism" is a program of the YWCA and

Trinity Church is a participating site.


Remembrance Day
May 9th in the
Memorial Garden

icon


Please join us on Mother's Day, May 9th, following the 11 o'clock service for Trinity's annual Day of Remembrance in the Memorial Garden. Following the service, we will briefly gather in the Memorial Garden, facing the main entrance to the church. The Rector will lead us in thanking God for the beauty of our church and its grounds, and, more importantly, to remember loved ones and friends of Trinity who are no longer with us. All are welcome to participate in this special tribute.

 

The Trinity Memorial Garden is dedicated to the memory of

 

Stephen George Austin

Spencer Anderson Barnett

Caroline Llewellyn Champlin

Eugenia Wynant Cirrincione

Harold F. Clark, Jr.

Nancy Connell

Margaret Kelley Considine

Eleanor Robertson Ewing

MaryAnne Florence

Patricia Cooke Georgantas

Doni Donovan Goldsmith

Eugene M. Haring

Grady Campbell Harris

Ann Davidson Henry

Colin Alexander Henry

Charles L. Johnston

Georgette Katherine Kelley

Eleanor Caithness Will Kuser

John Erdmann Kuser

Amanda Lake

Joyce Ann Wyld Lasseter

Hobard David Lasseter

Gordon Howard Mack

Michael Sean Mahoney

Mary Elizabeth Macready Martin

John P. C. Matthews

(in Potter's Cemetery on church grounds)

Mary Amelia McMorris

Marilyn Inzeo Mollenkott

Helen Papastephanou

Orville Anderson Petty III

Dorothy Jean Pollard

Margaret Hayes Prescott

Glen David Reifsnyder

Erik Routley

Gertrude Byington Kennedy Sheide

Christine Schley

Cornelia Hoeffel Scott

James Ward Smith

Mary R. "Jeanne" Sweeney

Charlotte Little Taylor

James Starbuck Thornton

Natalie White Vaughan

Bonnie Louise Wagner


Wake Forest to sing at Trinity May 11th, 7:30 p.m.
Gabriel Faure
 

A free concert featuring CHI RHO, the Christian men's a capella vocal group from Wake
Forest University will be held at Trinity in our Sanctuary on Tuesday, May 11 at 7:30pm.

CHI RHO is an undergraduate student-led group which performs throughout the year and is in great demand among religious and secular audiences.  Please come to hear and meet these young men and welcome them on the Princeton stop of their tour.

Parishioner Betty Ayers' grandson, Connor Chick, is a member of CHI RHO and is excited to be back home in Princeton to worship with us in song and music.

What makes you a new
member of Trinity Church?
Gabriel Faure

Filling out paperwork, actually.

Our parish administrator Annie Thomas can email you the one page form that needs to be filled out that tells us that you wish to make Trinity Church your home parish. Consequently, when you move and find a new parish, Annie will send a letter of transferfrom Trinity to your new church. We look forward to welcoming new members by listing their names in the weekly Announcements in the Sunday service leaflets.

Contact Annie Thomasat
[email protected]

Being an insider at Trinity; looking out on the world from Pierce Hall
McCaffrey Receipts=
Big Bucks to the
Crisis Ministry!
shopping cart

In January and February, the Crisis Ministry earned $2000 from McCaffrey receipts. Keep 'em coming Trinity! Remember, the receipts must be no older than 3 (new!) months. Please leave your receipts in the wicker box on the table behind the receptionist's desk. Thank you!
Worship Leaders

April 25th

8 am

Chalicist: Guy Pierson

Acolyte: Peter Brennan

Reader: Tim Munoz

Ushers: Lynne Davis, Van Davis, Ed Metcalf

9 am

Chalicists: Anne Burns, Denise Gordon-Miller, Maureen McCormick, Phil Unetic

Reader: Liz Charbonneau

Intercessor: Diane Paulsell

Acolytes: Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes, Dan States, Kyle Currier

Audio: Michael Unger

Verger: Juliet Richardson

Ushers: Caswell Cooke, Randy Currier, Anne Elliott, Robert Fraser, John Tomasulo

11 am

Chalicists: Noreen Duncan, Don Mann, Catie Newcombe, Bruce Woodger

Reader: Julie Denny

Intercessor: Jim Newcombe

Acolytes: Ann Laughlin, Jolanis Alexandre, Rosemary Parish

Audio: Bruce Woodger

Verger: Juliet Richardson

Ushers: Noreen Duncan, Michael Gehret, Robert Von Zumbusch


Rummage collection:
Now 50 weeks of the year,
7 days a week
Rummage in the Parish Hall

Our next scheduled sale is October 30th & 31st. (This will be a Fall/Winter & Christmas sale.) If you're getting rid of items and they are still in serviceable condition, your Rummage Team wants them. Please leave your donated items in the bench area outside Pierce Hall, anytime, 7 days a week.
Your "Rummage Team" will take good care of your items from there. Should you need a tax deduction  receipt, stop by the Reception Desk weekdays from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. and it will be provided. Many thanks for your donations in support of this Trinity Outreach endeavor.

John White
Chairman
Margo Southerland
Vice-Chairman
Trinity Rummage Team
Break a leg, Trinity Choristers!
THIS SATURDAY
Trinity Choirs sing
in New York
The Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
American Classical Orchestra
25th Anniversary Concert
Saturday, April 24th, 8pm

25th Anniversary Amer.Cl. orch.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Handel: Coronation Anthems


Hear 150 choristers (including our Boys, Girls, Teens & Harmony Choir) sing Handel's Coronation Anthems, joined by the Choirs of the Cathedral, Trinity New Haven and 50 dancers from Purchase Dance Corps at SUNY and Ballet Hispanico School. This concert is also a rare opportunity to hear Beethoven's Ninth Symphony performed on period instruments and sung by choristers and soloists.


For ticket availability, call 212-362-2727; order online at www.aconyc.org


Tickets: $75, $50, $35, $15 student


Bringing French or Italian cuisine ?
Trinity Church
International Dinner Sunday,
 May 2nd, 5:30pm

madeleine cookies
Celebrate the diversity of our Trinity family at the International Pot Luck Dinner,
 Sunday, May 2, at 5:30pm. 

Bring a dish that represents your family heritage, or prepare a recipe from your favorite international cuisine. Appetizers, salads, main courses, desserts -- we'll tour the world with delicious flavors.Beverages will be provided. There will be music from around the world. And, if inspired, wear something that represents your heritage, or bring an item to display.All are welcome to attend this intergenerational event.
 
We are also asking for Volunteers to provide transportation for any parishioner unable to travel on their own. Please contact
The Rev. Sarah Gaventa at
[email protected]
if you can help.

French madeleine cookies
THIS SATURDAY
Visit our Trinity Table at
Communiversity 
from noon to 5 p.m.

Communiversity
We're located on Nassau Street,
 by Starbucks;
we're booth
#3!

And say hello to our Trinity parishioners
and thank them for voluntering:

Carrie and Jonathan Besler
Laura and Roman Horoszewski
Mark and Liz Hamilton
Molly Schneider

20's-30's Something Group
 looking for a beach house;
their next luncheon is May 2nd
after the 11 a.m. service
beach scene
The 20's-30's group is looking for a beach house to use for a day or a weekend for a summer retreat.  If you might be willing to lend your place, please contact Joanne Golann at [email protected] or Matt Bollinger at [email protected].

The next 20's-30's lunch will be held on Sunday, May 2, after the 11 a.m. service in the George Thomas Room. All are welcome!


THIS SUNDAY
April 25th Forum Hour on
 Homelessness
in our Community
Gabriel Faure

Please come to the April 25th Forum Hour for an informative update on homelessness in our community.

 

The numbers of the homeless in 2009 in Mercer County range from an actual one-day count of 1067 adults and children to an estimated 3808.   The Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness began in 2003 with the single, transformative idea: that homelessness could be ended. Experience has shown that we can accomplish that aim, and cost-effectively.  It is not simple, but it is achievable.  Executive Director Herb Levine (see biography below) will describe the goals, core principles and steps that this organization has outlined to deal with and turn around a devastating problem in our community. Its motto: "We can - We must - We will end homelessness in Mercer County."  

 

Ruth Thurmond Scott

Chair, Outreach Council

 

Meet Herb Levine

Herb Levine serves as Executive Director of the Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness, which is comprised of government, social service and business leaders. In the last two years, he has overseen a substantive revision of the Alliance's ten year plan to end homelessness, focusing on prevention and permanent housing with support services. Under his leadership, all Mercer County and City of Trenton funding for homelessness services has been combined in one funding stream. He is currently chairing Mercer County's Reentry Task Force, which is creating a systematic response to the challenges of prisoner reentry.

       

Herb is also secretary of the New Jersey Advocacy Network to End Homelessness, which advocates at the State and Federal levels. The Network drafted the County-based Homeless Trust Fund and helped secure legislative approval. Herb has been working on the issue of homelessness since the early 1990's, both in volunteer roles and in his current professional capacity.

 


Watch an Icon
 being "written" in the
 George Thomas room
next week from 9am - 4 pm
Gabriel Faure

In connection with the exhibition currently on view at the Princeton University Art Museum, Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art, a group of fifteen iconographers will gather in the George Thomas Room next Monday through Friday (April 26-30) to "write" an icon of Saint Symeon the Stylite. The original icon can be seen in the exhibition, on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. If you are interested in learning more about this centuries old liturgical art form and spiritual discipline, please stop by to see what we are up to. We will be painting from 9am to 4pm each day.

Note that the annual summer workshop will be held this year from July 5-9. Newcomers are welcome and previous artistic experience is not required. For more information about the workshop or anything iconographic, contact Trinity parishioner Maureen McCormick ([email protected]).

To learn more about the Prosopon School of Iconology visit www.prosoponschool.org.

Students watching.
Thank you, from
Martha Gardner
Episcopal Relief and
 Development
Gabriel Faure

Dear Members of Trinity, Princeton,


It was a pleasure to be with you last Sunday (April 18th) to discuss Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD). Thank you for your hospitality and generosity of spirit. 

 

For those of you who were not able to make it to the forum, or would like more information, please visit the webpage at www.er-d.org. You can find lots of information and resources about Haiti - The Episcopal Church's largest diocese - at

www.er-d.org/HaitiCrisis.  But be sure to also read about all the work ERD is doing in more than 40 countries around the world.  The President's Blog (www.er-d.org/blog/)  is about the intersection between faith and global development and is a place for friends of Episcopal Relief & Development to interact, debate, discuss, question and become more actively involved with the organization. "ERD Now", the monthly publication, is posted online.  Both the Power of Partnerships Series and Stories from the Field are great sources of information.

 

Just to sum up some statistics about the work which ERD and its partners have done in Haiti since the earthquake:  217 tons of food have been distributed, temporary shelter has been provided for more than 30,000 people, 2,000 school children have been supported, health care has been provided to more than 12,000 survivors, and clean water is being provided to many.  As relief continues, recovery plans are underway -- economic opportunities, rebuilding the local infrastructure, construction of permanent sanitation systems, provision of housing, and stress and trauma counseling.

 

I look forward to working with Trinity in any way I can to promote the work of Episcopal Relief and Development, OUR church's international relief and development agency, guided by our Church's principles of compassion, dignity and generosity as we work to heal a hurting world.

 

Blessings,

Martha Gardner

ERD Network Coordinator

 


"Anglican 101", or
Everything you wanted to know about the Episcopal Church,
but were afraid to ask
Henry VIII

This Sunday during Forum Hour in the George Thomas room, "Anglican 101", a primer to prepare adults for Confirmation or for anyone who would like an Anglican "refresher course", continues, taught by Father Paul.


Henry VIII, the original Anglican?
Trinity Seniors to lunch in May
at the Jersey Shore

Gabriel Faure
Helen Bowerman, our Pastoral Outreach coordinator, is organizing a lunch date at the Jersey Shore for Trinity's seniors in May (most likely a date between May 18th - 20th). Details will follow.
Don't Miss
Stephen Buzard and
Tom Sheehan's
Senior Recitals May 8th & 9th

Gabriel Faure

Stephen Buzard (above) Senior Degree Recital, Saturday, May 8th, at the Princeton University Chapel at 7:00 PM.


Tom Sheehan (below) Senior Degree Recital, Sunday, May 9th, at Bristol Chapel Westminster Choir College at 5:30 PM.

   Tom Sheehan 


Uganda Missionary Trip in July
seeks donations
to buy children's shoes

Gabriel Faure

Dr.  Edith Senyumba, a parishioner of Trinity,  is leading a medical mission trip to Uganda in July.  Non medical "good will ambassadors" will also accompany the group.  They will visit orphanages in the clinic area and distribute shoes, school supplies and books.  The children need solid shoes to walk to school on the rough dirt roads.  Monetary donations are needed to purchase shoes and school supplies in Uganda.  If you wish to make a monetary donation, please send your check to:

UNAMS or (Ugandan North American Medical Society), 27 Compton Drive, East Windsor,

New Jersey 08520

 

To receive a Tax deduction for your donation,  write checks to Trinity Church, with 'UNAMS' in the memo section. Thank you!


"Come Help us Build the
Beloved Community"

Gabriel Faure
Analyzing
and Understanding
 Systemic Racism:

May 5-8 (for all)


An Anti-Racism program of the
 Diocese of New Jersey

This workshop is designed to accommodate those who are taking the two and a half day training as well as those who wish to make the dismantling of racism a lifetime commitment.  Participants will engage in the Analyzing and Understanding Systemic Racism workshop, and those who remain for the additional day, will become part of a process of forming an anti-racism team.

The purpose of the anti-racism team is to develop an identity, analyze team member relationships, deepen the internal team life, and to develop goals and strategies, and receive training for organizing skills in dismantling racism. Participants will engage in the 'Analyzing and Understanding Systemic Racism' workshop and those who remain for the additional day will become part of a process of forming an anti-racism team.

When Wednesday through Saturday, May 5-8. Begins with dinner on Wednesday at 6 pm and ends on Saturday at 3 pm.
Cost All fees, meals, and overnight accommodations provided by the Diocese at no cost to participants. Rooms shared with one other person. Participants may choose to commute.
Where Grove Hall Retreat and Conference Center

15 Pilgrim Pathway

Ocean Grove, New Jersey 07756

732 775-6720
Deadline By Friday,
April 30
Contact  



Register
The Rev. Canon
Joan Fleming
609-924-1438
[email protected]
Register online here or email spaige@newjersey.
anglican.org. Or fax registration form to 609 394-9546, mail form, or phone Sarah Paige, 609 394-5281, ext. 10



THIS SUNDAY
Fragile Earth Exhibit
Sunday, April 25th
Trinity Cathedral
Trenton

earth day in hands
There will be a special gathering
on Earth Day at our cathedral in Trenton, highlighted with an exhibit by
 the Episcopal Church and Visual Arts, a national Episcopal organization that encourages the use of visual art in the church's spiritual life. The date is Sunday, April 25th. The day begins with an environment themed church service followed by Earth Day activities and question/answer coffee hour with participating artists. Here is a link to the ECVA webpage for more information: http://newjersey.anglican.org/arts/events.html 
 


Our Parish Office Hours
are Monday-Thursday, 
9am-5pm and

Friday, 9am - 3pm

Gabriel Faure
You can always reach our clergy in an emergency by calling them on their cell phones:

The Rev. Paul Jeanes III
609-851-6989


The Rev. Sarah Kinney Gaventa
(photo)
609-365-0419

Would You Like a
Trinity Name Tag?

Trinity logo
Please wear your name tag during church (all services, so we can recognize you and  remember you at  Evensong and Compline, as well as Sunday morning services.  Please email parish administrator Annie Thomas if you would like to have a Trinity name tag!
Deadline for the Next E-Pistle  and
 Service Leaflet Announcements page
is Tuesday
at 10 am

reminder
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33 Mercer Street,

 Princeton, New Jersey.
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