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January 10, 2013 |
 TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
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"A Growing community making disciples who love and serve Christ and His world"
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Greetings!
 When I arrived at Trinity Cathedral almost 7 years ago, there were many people in the congregation involved in outreach ministries, but the congregation was not doing a great job of letting new people know they could get involved. In an effort to help people better understand the breadth of our ministries to those in need, three years ago we began an outreach focus in the season of Epiphany. We will continue that tradition in 2013. In the next several weeks, we will have guest preachers as well as forums and other events to highlight some of the important ways you can join other members of Trinity Cathedral in embodying Christ's love in our broken world. This Sunday, for example, as part of our sermon, two parishioners will be telling about their own experiences of serving those in need. We will also have our second forum on Homelessness at 10:15 in the Cathedral. On February 3 we will have an outreach fair in the Great Hall and on February 10 we will have a special offering for those who would like to make a financial gift that is focused on supporting our outreach ministries. On another note, tonight at 7pm I will be teaching the first of a monthly series of classes on the Old Testament. It is my intention to offer a look at the texts we are reading as we move through the Old Testament with the Bible Challenge. I hope you can join me. Tonight there will not be our regular Thursday night dinner. That dinner will resume next week.
Blessings,
Brian
The Very Rev. Dr. Brian Baker |
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Readings for
January 13, 2013
The First Sunday after the Epiphany
The Baptism of Our Lord
Click here to read the lessons. |
Weekly reading list...
- Day 4, Thursday, Jan 10: Genesis 10-12, Psalm 4, Matthew 4
- Day 5, Friday, Jan. 11: Genesis 13-15, Psalm 5, Matthew 5
- Day 6, Saturday, Jan. 12: Genesis 16-18, Psalm 6, Matthew 6
- Day 7, Sunday, Jan. 13: Enjoy hearing the Scriptures read aloud in church
- Day 8, Monday, Jan. 14: Genesis 19-21, Psalm 7, Matthew 7
- Day 9, Tuesday, Jan.15, Genesis 22-24, Psalm 8, Matthew 8
- Day 10, Wednesday, Jan. 16, Genesis 25-27, Psalm 9, Matthew 9
- Day 11, Thursday, Jan. 17, Genesis 28-30, Psalm 10, Matthew 10
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Phone: 916-442-9194 |
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Yarn for Prayer Shawls
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Centering Prayer
Tuesday's, 6-7pm, Cathedral East Transept and
Thursday's, noon-1pm, Cathedral East Transept
Centering Prayer is a method of contemplation that helps to Come. quiet the mind and participate in God's presence. It is a receptive form of prayer - a kind of resting in God.
Learn to just be...in the midst of God's love. All are welcome.
Contacts are:
Nancy Earl: nancy.c.earl@gmail.com
Shelley Mydans: smydans@gmail.com
Sally Smith:
sally1369@comcast.net |
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Thursday
Lunch Bunch
Thursdays, noon -1:30pm in the Assembly Area
Please bring your Bible to begin our discussion of the Bible Challenge readings.
Contact is Rev. Anne-amckeever@wavecable.com
Thursday
Writing Group
Thursdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to join us on in the Conference Room. We will write to a prompt and share what we choose of our writing with the group.
Contact facilitator Rev. Anne at amckeever@wavecable.com if you have questions. |
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Volunteer Opportunities... |
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Want to share your outreach ministry?
If you are involved in an outreach ministry that you would like to share with others at Trinity Cathedral, volunteer to help staff the Outreach Ministry Fair on February 3.
You would need to be available to share information and answer questions with individuals in the Great Hall--no public speaking.
Contact Deacon Virginia virginiamcneely@msn.com. |
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Volunteers Needed
Are you interested in a one-time volunteer effort? Hands On Sacramento needs volunteers for a homeless count on January 24, 2013. Training is required. If you are interested, see their website: www.handsonsacto.org. |
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What is a Virtual Food Drive?
River City Food Bank's Virtual Food Drive is the easiest, greenest way to help families, seniors, disabled people, veterans and others in need in our very own community. Help us raise $10,000 by December 31 to meet need during the fall and winter months by participating as an individual, or as part of a team.
Click here to participate in the RCFB Virtual Food Drive... |
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Trinity Takes the...
by The Rev. Anne Dryden McKeever,
Director of Youth and Adult Spiritual Formation.
Welcome to our first edition of Trinity Takes the Bible Challenge. I hope this can be a place for Trinity's Bible Challenge participants to learn, to connect and to share their experiences of reading the Bible in a year.
It's never too late to register as a BC participant by contacting Rev. Anne at amckeever@wavecable.com or 530-908-3616.
Last weekend at all the services Bibles were blessed and participants picked up bookmarks for the Old Testament, Psalms and New Testament readings. More bookmarks will be available at the Welcome Center this coming Sunday.
Also available there are printed lists of what to read from Day 1, January 7, 2013, through Day 362, January 6, 2014. You also may find this reading list at our diocesan website at www.norcalepiscopal.org/meditations. There you find daily meditations on the readings, along with a few questions to ponder and a prayer each day.
If you'd like to purchase a book of these meditations, written by bishops (including our own Bishop Barry Beisner) cathedral deans and other Bible scholars, you may purchase a copy of The Bible Challenge: Reading the Bible in a Year in the Trinity Bookshop for $18.
Eleven Trinity Bible Challenge Groups are forming now and some have already begun to meet. Click here for our ever-evolving BC Group List.
Please note this change from the originally published schedule: Vaughn Wolff's Sunday morning group that meets from 11:15 to 12:15 in the Conference Room will meet every first and third Sundays of the month, so it will not meet January 13th, as originally planned. The next meeting of this group will be on January 20th.
Please be patient as these groups form and combine as necessary. If you're seeking to meet at a time and day not listed, please let me know and I'll see if I can find a facilitator to start a new group.
While you are free to "do" the Bible Challenge on your own, joining a group may motivate you to keep up with the readings and, more importantly, gain a greater understanding of what you're reading by sharing and listening to other people's interpretations and questions.
I'm hoping this column will become a place where you can see some of your questions asked and answered, so send your questions to me at amckeever@wavecable.com and I'll do my best to seek answers for you.
Last week we launched the first edition of The Bible Challenge for Families that encourages the reading and discussion of just one story a week. Discussion questions and a prayer are included for each week. This is available to all-not just folks in families-- who may prefer to make the Bible Challenge a weekly event this year. Printed copies are available in the Great Hall and here.
This week also begins Dean Brian Baker's first monthly teachings on the Old Testament readings tonight from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Assembly Area. Subsequent classes will meet the first Thursday of each month.
May your reading of Genesis, Psalms and Matthew be blessed this week as we take this awesome challenge together. |
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Notes from Nancy...
Christmas Blessings and thank you to all of the people who provided clothing, toys, food and other gifts for needy families at Floyd School. Thank you all so to the members who delivered gifts to families. Trinity Cathedral Church parishioners and friends provided 30 families and about 100 children with gifts and food for Christmas. I am always so grateful for all of you who step up and help instantly. I know at the needs of the families will be taken care of. I am so proud to be part of the Trinity Family who always helps. Thank you, Thank you to all of you for a job well done.
Another special thank you to all of the children and their parents who participated in the two Christmas Eve and Epiphany pageants. They all went beautifully and were beautiful to be hold. An extra Special thanks to Alison Wescom and Aron Clifton who were pulled out of the 3:00 Christmas Service to be mice at the very last minute. They did a great job. What troopers! It was a wonderful Christmas and Epiphany!
Blessings,
Canon Nancy Tennyson |
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Thursday Night at the Cathedral
Holy Eucharist: 5:45pm
Dinner: 6:15pm-Classes: 7:00pm
Dinner and Classes resume January 17
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In the Assembly Area:
Dean Brian Baker will teach a monthly class on the books of the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) we'll be reading for the Bible Challenge. Bring your Bible, your new best friend. Dean Baker will offer subsequent Old Testament classes the first Thursday of every month in 2013. 
In Room J, the Trinity Respecting Earth & Environment (TREE) Committee hosts a 2-part discussion on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's). The discussion includes video clips from Genetic Roulette and other points of view.
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In the Conference Room: Rev. Anne McKeever offers a four-week group on Anne Lamott's latest book, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. We will share the wit and wisdom of Anne Lamott as we create our own prayers seeking help, giving thanks, and expressing awe for God's creation and amazing grace. E-mail Anne at amckeever@wavecable.com to join the group. The book is available for sale in the Cathedral Bookshop. Two copies of the book are available as "loaners".
In Room I: Canon Lynell Walker will facilitate: Understanding How We Worship based on Dr. Ian S. Markham's book Liturgical Life Principles: How Episcopal Worship Can Lead to Healthy and Authentic Living. In clear, accessible language, Markham demonstrates how the liturgy of the Episcopal Church can enable us to cope more effectively with the stresses and strains of modern life. Books are available in the Cathedral Bookshop.
In Room F: Trinity Roots: A series of presentations by members of Trinity Cathedral about themselves and their family heritage that represent the American experience and reflect American history at different times.
January 17: Rosemary Braxton, on her grandfather experience in WWII as well as founding the Urban League in Atlanta. One of the most influential men of his time, Jesse O. Thomas worked as a Senior promotional specialist with the United States Department of the Treasury selling war bonds and brought the Urban League to Atlanta among other achievements. He is the father of Anne Thomas Braxton, Vice Principal, Retired of CK McClatchy and the grandfather of Rosemary Braxton, Lay Preacher at Trinity Cathedral.
January 24: Ed Stupka on his memoirs growing up in a coal mining town in Pennsylvania and coming from a family of eastern European immigrants.
January 31: Kevin Sanders on his father's American Indian background and experience in the South Pacific as an infantry soldier in WWII and excerpts from his letters home about war and family.
February 7: Xanthi Pinkerton on her grandfather's and father's experience in WWII in the Philippines, the infamous Bataan Death March and family history flowing from this time period.
In the Bookshop: Power Through Constructive Thinking  by Emmet Fox, presented by Vaughn Wolff. Emmet Fox, a Roman Catholic who became an ordained a minister of Divine Science, wrote A Sermon on the Mount in 1934 on Jesus' teachings that became a practical guide for recovery. While our class is not about alcoholism and recovery, we will study Dr. Fox's writings, beginning with Power Through Constructive Thinking, to find inspiration that can be applied to solve practical problems. Today people continue to be attracted to the principles found in the New Thought movement that has its roots in the early to mid 1800s. God, the Universal Power that is rightfully ours, "is the real source of all things that exists" and that is the meaning of true prosperity.
In the Assembly Area: Bible Challenge discussion group facilitated by Randy Knutson and Rhonda Canby. |
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Have you lost it? We may have found it!
There will be two tables set up in the Great Hall this weekend with lost items looking for their owners. One table is for kitchen "stuff"; the other is for all sorts of "stuff." What isn't claimed will be donated to various charities. |
 Super Bowl PIZZA Returns: 2011 Prices!
Please support Trinity's Episcopal Youth Fellowship summer mission team by ordering pizza January 13, 20 and 27th. Look for our table in the Great Hall. This year we are offering five kinds of pizza rolled back to 2011 prices so you can buy more, more, more! We will be offering cheese, pepperoni and vegetable pizzas for $10 each and combination and meat lover's pizzas for $12. Pizzas will be hand-crafted by our youth and ready for pick-up on Super Bowl Sunday, February 3rd, all morning. |
Dean's Forum on Homelessness
10:15am in the Cathedral |
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Newcomers' Group
The current group is being received today.
The next Newcomer Group will begin on January 20at 10:15am in Room C off the Great Hall.We will begin with introductions. Everyone is invited to join us. If you have questions contact Randie Strike at randie.trinity@gmail.comor 916-446-2513 or 916-203-7586. |
Sunday Morning Bible Challenge
10:15am in the Assembly Area
The 30/40s and Beyond is hosting a Sunday morning Bible Challenge group for all adults. Join us today for our first gathering of this new study. Questions? Amy Dierlam-dnarock@pacbell.net or 601-1699. |
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Safe Guarding God's People
Sunday, January 13 at 1:00 pm
For all who work with children and adults in the church. It is a requirement of the Diocese of Northern California that all who work in the church are encouraged to attend the class every three years. Lunch will be provided at 1:00pm as the workshop begins. Please contact Canon Nancy Tennyson if you are planning to come. 916-446-2513 or tennyson@trinitycathedral.org. |
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Growing in Faith
Sunday's at 4pm
Growing in Faith is a program designed to help people adults prepare for Baptism, Confirmation and formal Reception into the Episcopal Church. "Formal Reception into the Episcopal Church" means that +Bishop Beisner" officially welcomes you into this denomination. Growing in Faith is also for those who want to focus on renewing their faith. Contact is Michelle Jackson - astraeus@accessbee.com |
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Cathedral Music Series upcoming events
We have two exciting Cathedral Music Series events coming in February, featuring the Sacramento Baroque Soloists, and the Trinity Cathedral Choir, and YOU are invited! Want to support musical events at the Cathedral such as these?? We invite you to become a Music Series benefactor, by clicking here.
 Friday, February 8th at 7:30 pm Concert by the Sacramento Baroque Soloists
"Heart of the Baroque" The Sacramento Baroque Soloists return to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral to perform best-loved selections from their concert repertoire,including Vivaldi's Concerto "La Notte," Bach's Concerto for Two Violins, and selections by Handel, Telemann, and Corelli. With Lisa Marie Lawson and Marieke Furnee, violins; Cathie Apple, traverso (baroque flute); Michael Lawson, cello; and Ellen Deffner, harpsichord. Tickets: $25 general, $15 students & seniors, children ten and under are free.
Sunday, February 10th at 11:15 am Choral Eucharist for the Last Sunday of Epiphany
We celebrate the last Sunday of Epiphany with a fully choral Eucharist. The Cathedral Choir will sing the "Missa Brevis Sancti Joannes de Deo" by Franz Joseph Haydn, accompanied by strings and organ, with soprano soloist Kate Murphy. Haydn's short mass is typical of the Viennese style, gloriously perfected by Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert, and sung in Latin. Please join us for this special service as we finish up the beautiful Epiphany season and move into Lent.
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 Women's Lenten Retreat
March 8-10 at Mercy Retreat Center in Auburn
This year's retreat will be based on a new devotional book The Song Forever New: Lent and Easter with Charles Wesley. The retreat co-led by Rev. Anne McKeever and Canon Lynell Walker.
Registration forms will be available in the bookstore beginning Sunday, January 13th. Registration is limited to 40 and the deadline is February 10th. Questions contact Jackie McGrath: 712-6561, jackiewmcgrath@gmail.com. |
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2012 NCAC Closing Ceremonies
(On the left is Canon Link) |
2013 NorCal AIDS Cycle
by Canon David Link
By now, many of you know the story of my friend Ken, a long time friend and choir singer who battled HIV/AIDS for many years.
Ken was the primary impetus for my decision to participate in the 2011 and 2012 NorCal AIDS Cycle, a 330 mile/four day bike ride through Northern California. His courage, grace, and positive attitude, combined with the excellent care he received, prolonged his life longer than anyone expected. Ken finally succumbed to the disease, just two weeks prior to the 2011 ride. I had planned to ride in Ken's honor... instead I rode in his memory.
The truth is, that funding for AIDS services, education, and medical care is significantly less than it was ten years ago. And along with this drop in funding, the number of new infections is on the rise, especially among young gay men, and women of color. Now, more than ever, additional funding is needed to reverse the trend, and to ease the suffering of those already infected.
So for the third year, I've decided to participate in the NorCal AIDS Cycle for 2013. Individually, I raised more than $6,500 last year, and as a group, we raised well over a quarter-of-a-million dollars. And this year we are aiming for the audacious goal of half-a-million dollars! This money goes directly to service agencies right here in Northern California. Beneficiaries in 2012 included CARES, Golden Rule Services, Caring Choices, and the Sierra Foothills AIDS foundation, among others. This year I am proud to have formed a team sponsored by NCAC beneficiary The River City Food Bank. River City works with CARES to provide meals to those suffering with AIDS, and the "River City Roadies" are proud to be carrying their colors.
I am very appreciative of the support which you have given in the last two years, and know that I can count on your support as take on this challenge again this coming May. Just click this link to make a quick and easy online donationhttp://norcalaidscycle.kintera.org/2013/sierracanon . No donation is too small (OR too small!). |
 TREE Tip
Junk Mail and New Help
By Ann Rothschild
I keep a list of my favorite charities and what I contribute annually. Suddenly, I started to get dozens of new "begging" letters-someone had sold my info to a marketing company. I sent letters to the charities asking them to take me off their mailing lists, but they kept coming. At one point, 94 different charities were asking for my money! I tried "delivery refused," but the Post Office discards such mail and my statements of refusal got nowhere.
However, the website www.41pounds.org promises to eliminate 80-95 % of junk mailings by contacting direct marketers for you. For $35.00, the service lasts 5 years and you can add to your list. So checkout www.41pounds.org if you are swamped by junk mail and unwanted catalogues, and concerned about the appalling waste of paper and energy. Save trees, water, emissions, time, and the back of your mail carrier! Some facts from the website:
- The pulp and paper industry is the single largest consumer of water used in industrial activities in developed countries, and it's the third-largest industrial greenhouse gas emitter (after the chemical and steel industries).
- The average adult receives 41 pounds of junk mail each year. 44% goes to the landfill unopened.
- 40% of the solid mass that makes up our landfills is paper and paperboard waste.
- Junk mail inks have high concentrations of heavy metals, making the paper difficult to recycle.
- $320 million of local taxes are used to dispose of junk mail each year.
- Transporting junk mail costs $550 million a year.
- Names and addresses used in bulk mailings reside in mass data-collection networks. Your name is typically worth 3 to 20 cents each time it is sold.
TNAC Classes by TREE Come see the film Genetic Roulette and discuss genetically modified food this week, Jan 10th and next, Jan 17th, 7 pm, Room J. |
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