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February 7, 2013 |
 TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
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Greetings!
 Lent is upon us. If it feels early this year, that's because it is. Easter is March 31, which I think is about as early as it can be. Ash Wednesday is this coming Wednesday. So ready or not, it's time to consider a spiritual practice for Lent. Many people give up something that gets in the way of living life fully. Others take up a spiritual practice, like meditating or praying in a new way. I always look at Lent as a great invitation to try out a new habit. There are always things I would like to try on for a season. Like, what would my life be like if I didn't drink alcohol, or didn't eat junk when I'm anxious, or exercised or meditated or wrote a letter to a friend ever single day. A friend once gave up fear for Lent. I thought that was a spectacular idea. I invite you to have fun and be creative with what you want to try out this Lent. Now on to more normal Church business. I hope you can come to the Annual Meeting this Sunday at 7:00 p.m., and perhaps you can join us for our dinner at 5:30 p.m. Also, I am teaching a class tonight at 7:00 p.m. on Genesis and Exodus as part of a monthly series on the Old Testament books we are reading as part of the Bible Challenge. I will be offering a shortened version of this class at 10:15 on Sunday morning in the Assembly Area.
Blessings,
Brian
The Very Rev. Dr. Brian Baker |
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Readings for
February 10, 2013
The Last Sunday after the Epiphany
Click here to read the lessons. |
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Weekly reading list...
Day 34: Exodus 37-39, Psalm 29, Mark 2
Sat, February 9, 2013
Listen to Scripture in Church
Sun, February 10, 2013
Day 36: Exodus 40, Psalm 30, Mark 3
Mon, February 11, 2013
Day 37: Leviticus 1-3, Psalm 31, Mark 4
Tue, February 12, 2013
Day 38: Leviticus 4-6, Psalm 32, Mark 5
Wed, February 13, 2013
Day 39: Leviticus 7-9; Psalm 33; Mark 6
Thu, February 14, 2013
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FREE Lenten Devotional
Resources
Recommended by Vaughn Wolff:
Here is the link to the 40 Days Fast from Wrong Thinking: http://fromtheinsideout.us/.
While you are there signing up for your daily email, scroll down and take time to listen to the little video-- great message! This doesn't cost anything and I think the benefit is priceless. Try it out.
Recommended by Rev. Anne McKeever
Living Compass for Lent is a free booklet available in the Cathedral Bookshop now and from Rev. Anne at TNAC group meetings on Thursday evenings in the Conference Room beginning February 21. Includes short weekly meditations, brief scripture and daily encouragement to pray, reflect, and (perhaps) write a bit. Can also be found online at http://www.livingcompass.org/lent.iml
CREDO Feeding and Fasting: Reflections for the Lenten Seasonis a free online resource that invites participants to include a daily reflection in text and audio as part of their Lenten practice. To sign up, go to www.episcopalcredo.org. |
Cathedral Bookshop
Book signing on
February 24
June Gillam's
book of poetry,
So Sweet Against
Your Teeth
Bookshop Hours:
Tue, Wed, Thur:11:00am - 5:00pm
Fri: 11:00am - 4:00pm; Sun: 8:30am - 1:00pm
Phone: 916-442-9194 |
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Helper Needed...
A women in the Land Park area near the Zoo will need someone to come in on a regular basis (1-2 times a day) to help her for perhaps 6 weeks after she has spine surgery.
You must love cats and dogs since some of the help required involves them.
If you'd like to find out more details phone Nickki at 916-447-3892 or 916-447-4545. |
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Donation Opportunity...
A 4 year old foster child is in need of a twin size mattress, box spring and metal frame. Please call Kaellen at 916-550-0762 if you can help. |
Need your roses pruned?
Winter pruning:
- improves spring bloom
- rejuvenates rose bushes
- minimizes disease problems
Joann Sprogis:
- pruning roses since 1984
- reasonable rates
- appointments
- consultations
Call Joann at (916) 736-2767
(a land line! please leave a message) |
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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 for 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... |
Needed: A few happy hosts...
...to help set up for Sunday coffee hours - especially for the 9 and 11:15 a.m. services. Basic time commitment is just one service every other month (so approximately 3 hours per year) and it's a fun way to help out. Please contact Georgianna at dugongs@sbcglobal.net or (916) 266-1802 if interested and/or for more information. |
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 Family Promise Week at Trinity
March 17-24
The sign up sheet is on the bulletin board in the hall next to the book store. I invite you to sign up and come meet the families!! At this time there are two families and interviews are in process for at least one more family soon. If you have questions please call me at 752-4376 or email at lylegramling@comcast.net |
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Safe Ground Sacramento
Fundraiser with the Kings!
Kings vs. Utah Jazz
at Sleep Train Arena
Saturday February 9th at 7pm
Safe Ground is partnering with the Sacramento Kings in offering discounted tickets to the Kings vs. Jazz home game. Upper level tickets are available for $22, lower level for $60. This is a discount of well over 50% of normal ticket prices! A portion of each ticket purchase goes to Safe Ground. You can purchase tickets via Ticketmasters at this secure site - tickets online You will need to give a password, which is "kings", and supply some registration information to the Kings. Your purchased ticket(s) will be emailed to you.
If you prefer not to buy tickets online, you can print this form, and mail it with your payment to the Kings address provided on the form - ticket purchase form
Please come to Sleep Train Arena on February 9th, enjoy the basketball game, and help us spread awareness of the capitol region's homeless problem. Safe Ground will have a booth set up to provide information on our activities. We hope to see you there! |
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 Empty Bowl's
A benefit for River City Food Bank
Soup's on! It's our tenth anniversary of Empty Bowls and we are pulling out all the stops to celebrate this event. Make plans to join us and recommend it to others by inviting friends, emailing colleagues and contacts and sharing information via Facebook and other social networks.
When:
Supper: Monday, March 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Luncheon: Tues., March 5, 11:30 and 12:30 p.m. seatings
Where:
Sacramento Convention Center |
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 Evensong and Candlemas ProcessionTONIGHT - Thursday, Feb. 7 at 6:00 pm
Celebrated since the fourth century, the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord, commemorates the journey of Jesus family to the temple, forty days after his birth, according to Jewish custom. St Luke recounts their encounter with the elderly Simeon, who tells Mary and Joseph that their son is the "light to lighten the gentiles, and glory of his people Israel." For hundreds of years, a candle-lit procession symbolizing that "light" became a part of the celebration, and the feast has come to be known in many places as "Candlemas."
Tonight the Trinity Cathedral Choir will sing our monthly service of Choral Evensong, preceded by a Candlemas procession from the Cathedral courtyard. The service will include music by T. Tertius Noble and Iain Quinn, and will conclude with the stunning anthem "O Nata Lux" by Morten Lauridsen.
Please join us for this beautiful and unique service! |
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Thursday Night at the Cathedral
Candlemas / Evensong: 6:00pm
Dinner: 6:15pm-Classes: 7:00pm
Dinner:
February 7: Chef Kevin Donahue
will prepare a delicious meal!
February 14: NO dinner
February 7 - Classes:
In the Conference Room: Rev. Anne McKeever offers the fourth and final discussion on Anne Lamott's latest book, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. The book is available for sale 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.
February 7: Xanthi Pinkerton on her grandfather's and father's experience in WWII in the Philippines, the in famous 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: Dean Baker presents the Old Testament.
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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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Outreach Ingathering
Today we are having our ingathering of gifts and pledges for Trinity's outreach programs that serve the homeless, the lonely and the hungry. Outreach also works with outside organizations to help them to fund their services. Please consider making a pledge or gift for Outreach in the special envelopes available in the pews. |
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Newcomers' Group
10:15am in Room C
The group will discuss Ministry Opportunities. 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. |
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Dean Baker on the Old Testament
10:15am in the Assembly Area.
Dean Brian Baker will present a shortened version of his Thursday evening teaching on the Bible Challenges's Old Testament readings for February. |
Sunday Morning Bible Challenge
10:15am in the Assembly Area
The 30/40s and Beyond is offering a Sunday morning Bible Challenge group for all adults. Questions? Amy Dierlam-dnarock@pacbell.net or 601-1699. |
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Growing in Faith
The class will NOT meet on February 10.
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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 Annual Meeting
Sunday, February 10
Meeting at 7:00pm in the Cathedral
During the annual meeting the 2013 budget is presented, the Dean gives a "State of the Cathedral" presentation, we elect new vestry members (follow this link for vestry nominee biographies) and delegates to the diocesan convention (follow this link for delegate nominee biographies), and...DEAN'S AWARDS are presented. |
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The Observance of a Holy Lent
Ash Wednesday Services 6:30am, 9am, 12:10pm, 4pm (Children and Families), 5:45pm
 This next Wednesday, February 13th, we will gather to enter a rather odd Spiritual Practice in our Christian life: The 40 Days of Lent. It is a time when the church is mindful of the need we all have to forgive and be forgiven. We take on intentions to help us become aware of the choices we make. Some give up forms of pleasure, some take on acts of charity. It's a time to do something simply "different" that we might take notice of our lives as an act of simple thanksgiving to God for God's abundant grace.
One option might be to spend time with the upcoming Gospel Lesson for the Sundays in Lent. Begin each week on Monday letting them grow in you. Listen throughout the week for what word or phrase or image jumps off the page. What seems odd in the text? Where is there hope? What is God inviting us to imitate? How does God's holy Word sustain our longing to live a Holy Lent? Note what is happening on paper or in your heart. Here are the lessons for the upcoming weeks:
Lent 1 (2/17) Luke 4:1-13
Lent 2 (2/24) Luke 13:31-35
Lent 3 (3/3) Luke 13:1-9
Lent 4 (3/10) Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Lent 5 (3/17) John 12:1-8
Palm Sunday (3/24) Luke 22:14-23:56 (The Passion)
May God's love break through and be heard in your hearts.
Faithfully,
Lynell +
The Rev. Lynell Walker+
Canon Pastor |
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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
February 12, 5:30-7:00pm
Ash Wednesday Services
February 13 at
6:30am, 9:00am, 12:10pm,
4:00pm (for children) and 5:45pm |
 Sunday Mornings in Lent
Beginning Sunday, February 17 at 10:15am
Bud Swank presents The Soul of Money for six Sunday mornings in Lent beginning February 17 in Classroom A. The book is available for sale in the Cathedral Bookshop |
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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. |
Trinity Takes...
by The Rev. Anne Dryden McKeever,
Director of Youth and Adult Spiritual Formation.
Available now in the Cathedral Bookshop and at the Welcome Center are yellow; copies of the February edition of Monthly Bible Challenge, designed for folks who would like to read one Bible story a week, rather than one a day.
The Bible Challenge: Read the Bible in 365 Days is now available for purchase in the Trinity Bookshop. It contains a listing of scripture to read each day as well as a meditation, questions and a prayer for each day. This is also available at the diocesan website: www.norcalepiscopal.org/meditations
I thank Bible Challenge participant Barb Chandler for asking a question I forwarded to Canon Grant Carey, of Stump the Canon fame, for an answer:
This passage: "And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven." Matthew 23:9, caused me to wonder why Episcopal/Catholic priests refer to themselves as 'Father.' I wonder if historically it wasn't a way of holding themselves apart from the laity so they would be looked upon as 'spiritual 'fathers,' so they could command respect and obedience. (I'm thinking here of the Early Church).
Canon Carey's response:
I doubt that Jesus had this in mind when (and if) he made this remark. And if so, I rather suspect he had reference to putting someONE in God's place. The idea of using the world "Father" in reference to one not a blood relation is quite ancient and occurs in the Old Testament and does not seek to equate someone with God. If we take it to the extreme, we must not refer to our male parent as "father," either. I think Jesus had many more important things to be concerned with than semantics.
Certainly, no one in our Episcopal tradition is required to call a pastor "father." (Or mother, for that matter).
When I was first ordained, I informed my congregation that they might call me "Father, Pastor, Friend; but PLEASE don't call me Rever-end." They opted for "father." and my students in Puerto Rico called me "Padre," probably because they saw my role as one of caring and nurturing. But I never insisted that I be called anything in particular except NOT "Rever-end."
Most people call me "Canon" which is fine with me, but I can understand why some use the more intimate and caring term "Father." I wonder what Jesus called Joseph.
It is a good question. But I doubt that Jesus was a literalist. There were more important things for him to deal with - - like the salvation of the world.
Rev. Anne McKeever
amckeever@wavecable.com |
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Super Bowl Pizza Sale Success
Trinity youth and parents thank everyone who supported our mission program by purchasing all 80 of the pizzas we hand-crafted, for a profit of $600. This will help us to send two students on our summer mission trip. Many thanks to our outstanding volunteers: Bill, Cindy, Becky, Gail, Alyssa, Evy, Jinx, Ali, Jean, Dasha, Ana, Cody, Clare, Vicki and Mary.
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