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(Don't forget - there is a calendar on Trinity's website that has information about all our events.) 

 

 

"The Interaction of Life and Faith": A Speakers Series

Wednesdays April 2 & 9 at 7pm

Just two more weeks left in this outstanding series! And you don't want to miss the final speakers - both women with deep connections to Aquidneck Island, and both dynamic leaders.

• April 2 Sr. Jane Gerety, President of Salve Regina University
• April 9 RADM USN (Ret.) Barbara McGann, Interim Superintendent of Portsmouth Schools

Registering online is the best way to be sure you have a seat! You may also sign-up after the Sunday services in Honyman Hall or call the church office (401-846-0660).

 

Calling all those who would like to help with outside clean-up! Saturday, April 12 at 9:00am. It's been a long, hard winter and there is a lot of debris around the campus. Please come armed with gardening gloves! Questions?  Call Bill Bohmbach, Jr. Warden, 401-835-1287.

 

Maybe you remember this from last year, maybe this is your first experience with this Lenten project. Either way, as you come into the church this Lent, you'll find a growing collection of items on the clerk's desk, the lowest level of our three-tiered pulpit - you'll find a cairn. The word cairn comes from Irish Gaelic and means, literally, a man-made pile of stones. Travelers have built them for centuries as trail markers and monuments, and they are still found along paths in North America and Europe to guide hikers. As we make our Lenten journey, you are invited to help build a cairn in our sanctuary, to mark the path from the dust of Ash Wednesday to the splendor of Easter. We'll start with all those precious objects that we collected last year, and see what new treasures we find this year.

 

Go out and gather something, or some things, that mark your path. A rock. A piece of wood. A shell. Whatever speaks to you along your journey. Bring that to the sanctuary, and offer it to God, offer it to the community. Add your marker, your gift, your object to our cairn, our marker. Go out and begin the journey that is Lent.

 

Please join the Trinity Choir in welcoming Michael Genese as the new Tenor Choral Scholar. Michael is a sophomore at URI majoring in music. 

 

In addition to singing, our Choral Scholars lead sectional rehearsals, write program notes, and occasionally conduct the choir. We benefit from their considerable talents while they gain valuable practical experience beyond the scope of their formal education.

 

This week, Paul Taylor, Jim Brunhoeffer, and the Rector met with Glenn Gardiner, principle architect at Northeast Collaborative Architects, to discuss Trinity's campus needs for the next twenty years, and together they outlined the space requirements of our parish and the organizations interested in a future partnership with us. Prompted by the closing of the Carr Rice building, we are called upon to re-think how to make use of our tremendous physical assets - mainly, a campus in the center of the city - and to envision a future for Trinity as a vibrant center for worship, ministry and community outreach. We look forward to the ideas and recommendations of the team at Northeast Collaborative, who will help this vision take shape.

 

 

 

You may find Sunday's readings at The Episcopal Lectionary Page, www.lectionarypage.net/.