Saint Anathasius

Choral Evensong for Eastertide

Tonight, May 2nd at 6:00pm

Join the Cathedral Choir for our final evensong of the season, as we commemorate the Feast of Saint Anathasius.

• Preces & Responses - Bruce Neswick and Edward Naylor
• Psalm 112 - Anglican chant by John Stainer
• Canticles: Jack Ossewaarde in C
• Anthem: Pilgrim's Hymn - Stephen Paulus

Choral Evensong is a wonderful quiet way to end the day. The service is sung to the majestic words of the Book of Common Prayer 1662.

TNAC Spring Classes 2013

Classes Meet on Thursday Evenings

from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

  

 

Dean Baker Presents the Old Testament: Assembly Area, first Thursday of each month: May 2, June 4, July 11. Come learn about the books of the Old Testament we're reading for the Bible Challenge as we ponder: Who is God?   All are welcome. Most Thursday evening classes attend this presentation once a month.

 

Old Testament Teaching

10:15 in the Assembly Area

  

Dean Brian Baker will present a shortened version of his Thursday evening teaching on the Bible Challenges' Old Testament readings.

2012 Baccalaureate

 Diocesan Baccalaureate Service

for Graduating High School Seniors

Sunday, May 5 at 4:00pm at Trinity Cathedral

 

Senior High graduates from around the diocese are invited to worship and celebrate their graduation from high school. Bishop Barry Beisner, Dean Brian Baker, clergy from the graduate's churches and family and friends will be present. The order of evening worship will included a reflection from

2012 Baccalaureate reception

Bishop Beisner and an introduction of each graduate.

 

After blessings and the procession out, the graduates will be treated to a festive graduation reception which will include the "Church" chocolate fountain.

 

If you are a graduating senior and would like to participate contact Canon Nancy Tennyson or Rev. Anne McKeever  for inclusion in the printed program you MUST get a short bio and picture to punderwoodtrinity@gmail.com

TNAC Spring Classes 2013

Classes Meet on Thursday Evenings

from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

 

May 9

 

The Episcopal Church Welcomes You: The Rev. Anne McKeever in the Conference Room

Everyone interested in the Episcopal Church is invited to learn about our history, faith, traditions and quirks. Recommended books: Your Faith, Your Life: An Invitation to the Episcopal Church by Jenifer Gambler and Bill Lewellis, and The Episcopal Handbook from Morehouse Publishing, both available in the Cathedral Bookshop. A few copies of each book will be available to borrow from Rev. Anne. Please contact her at amckeever@wavecable.com to reserve a book.

 

Emmet Fox and New Thought: Vaughn Wolff in the Trinity Bookshop

Continuing with the writings of Emmet Fox, we will now explore scripture as a guide to heal the soul using prayer as treatment along with our ability to choose and create new thoughts. Understanding the underlying spiritual principles on our journey brings us to practical and effective demonstrations of God's great goodness to ourselves and the environment we live in. When we finish with Fox's Power of Constructive Thinking, we will take up his book, The Sermon on the Mount. These books are available for sale in the Cathedral Bookshop. Newcomers are welcome.

 

Understanding How We Worship: Canon Lynell Walker in Classroom I

Continuing our discussions of Liturgical Life Principles: How Episcopal Worship Can Lead to Healthy and Authentic Living by Dr. Ian S. Markham, we will explore connections between Episcopal liturgy and our lives. The book is available in the Cathedral Bookshop. Newcomers are welcome.

 

The Bible Challenge TNAC Discussion Group: Rhonda Canby and Randy Knutson in the Assembly Area. Bring your Bible and discuss the readings for the week. Newcomers are always welcome.

 

Dean Baker Presents the Old Testament: Assembly Area, first Thursday of each month: June 4, July 11. Come learn about the books of the Old Testament we're reading for the Bible Challenge as we ponder: Who is God?   All are welcome. Most Thursday evening classes attend this presentation once a month.

A Memorial Service will be held...

Annual Parish Picnic

Sunday, May 19, 1:00-6:00pm

There is always lots of food!

It's a spring picnic this year! We'll again be at Oki Park.  Bring a salad or side-dish to share; hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream and drinks will be provided.

 

Mark your calendar so you don't miss this fun time.

Oki Park Playground

ACT Town Meeting

 Vocal Art Ensemble in Concert

Earth.   Water.   Fire.   Wind.   Void.

 

 

Celebrating its fifth anniversary season, VAE summons a musical invocation of the Japanese Godai -- the "Five Great" elements that create our world. Transcendent a capella singing, instrumentals, and dance unleash one by one the solid and the fluid, the passionate and the wise, and the intangible energy that connects us all.

 

Welcoming back a rich roster of past guest artists, VAE forges powerhouse favorites with enticing new discoveries in a program shaped by characteristic depth of emotion and attention to detail. Step into the tide of elemental forces expressed in music, dance, and word!

 

STOP HUNGER NOW

Sacramento Interfaith Event

Sunday May 5th, 2:30 - 4:30 pm

at St Ignatius Loyola Parish
3235 Arden Way, Sacramento

  

Please join us in the first STOP HUNGER NOW interfaith outreach event in Sacramento

Community leaders and volunteers from Sacramento's interfaith organizations will be working together to package 2,000 highly nutritious meals.

Please join members of our interfaith community attend a fast paced two hour meeting to learn more about world hunger and see firsthand how the food packing operation works. Although you may choose to make a contribution, this is not a fund raising event. This meeting is an information session to help you to learn more about world hunger and decide whether you would like to help host an event in your organization. Children are welcome to attend the presentation and observe the adult volunteers in the food packaging "assembly line".

Each volunteer is invited to bring a non-perishable food item to help those in need locally.

Help make a difference and change lives
Go to www.stophungernow.org to learn more.

PLEASE RSVP:
Jeanne Anderson-West: jandersonwest@stignatiussac.org

Bruce Gant, Abraham's Tent of Sacramento: gantbruce@hotmail.com

NorCal AIDS Cycle

  

With less than three weeks until the beginning of the NorCal AIDS Cycle, I have switched into "desperation" training mode. A family gathering in the north state over the weekend, presented the opportunity to spend a couple of days at the family cabin near Lassen Volcanic National Park. This was a great opportunity to get some badly-needed training on some hills. On Friday I cycled up from the town of Mineral along hwy 36, up into Lassen Park. The park road is still closed to autos, but open to cyclists, so I rode up to about 7000' of elevation near the Sulphur Works geothermal area. It was a bit surreal riding up a highway that still had steep snowbanks on either side, but it was beautiful and there was no traffic to contend with. And... it was (mostly) downhill all the way back to Mineral. There is hardly anything more thrilling/terrifying than careening down a state highway at 50 kph, especially with loose gravel and sand still on the road from winter. The next morning, I took a short "recovery" ride to the small town of Mill Creek via Mineral Summit, for another bit of short but steep training.

Now, it's just a matter of getting as many miles under my legs as possible over the next three weeks.

Fund raising has been coming along reasonably at this point. My benefit organ concert at Trinity Cathedral last week netted a thousand dollars, giving my fund-raising a much needed boost, and bringing my total so far to just under five thousand dollars. I still have a ways to go to reach my seven-thousand dollar goal. If you've been putting off making YOUR contribution to NorCal AIDS Cycle, time is running out! Just click the link below to contribute online it is quick and easy.

At my benefit concert last week, I shared some interesting statistics:

• Worldwide, over 33 million people have HIV or AIDS
   
• 28 million of those are in sub-Saharan Africa
   
• Nine million people have HIV or AIDS in the United States
   
• There is a new HIV infection every nine minutes (which meant that there were seven new infections during the course of my recital)
   
• In Sacramento County, there are approximately five thousand diagnosed with HIV or AIDS

Now in the big picture, five thousand doesn't seem like such a big deal. But... if you're one of those five thousand, it's a big deal. If your son or daughter or sister or brother or partner is one of those five thousand, it's a big deal. NorCal AIDS Cycle provides funds to agencies providing direct services to those with this disease. I know for a fact, that many of them would have to close their doors if they lost the funding NCAC provides.

If you haven't contributed yet, I encourage you to do so. Any amount, small or large, makes a big difference to someone who is suffering. And just maybe, we'll eradicate this disease once and for all. And as always, a HUGE Thank You to those who have supported me in this project.

Click here to contribute to NorCal AIDS Cycle 2013: http://norcalaidscycle.kintera.org/2013/sierracanon

  

-- Canon David Link

Arthritis Walk

Saturday, May 18 at the Capitol

 

Newcomer Charis Hill is recruiting teammates and funds for her team, Ankylosing Spondylitis (A.S.), for the Arthritis Walk.

 

Charis was just recently diagnosed with A.S., a rare form of Rheumatoid Arthritis, and is hoping to fund a possible cure for the disease. Ankylosing Spondylitis affects around 1% of the population (a very small number are females); it affects the whole body but is famous for a characteristic fusing of the spine in a fixed, immobile position. Charis suffers from acute, constant pain in her hips and low back as well as other parts of her body during flare-ups; she also finds it difficult to fill her lungs on a consistent basis because her rib cage has likely been partially fused to her spine.

 

Charis is seeking people to join her team and help raise money for the walk, as well as walk with her on the 18th (either 1 mile or 3 miles). There is no registration fee, and those who raise over $100 earn a free t-shirt for their efforts. To register for her team and/or donate, visit: http://sacarthritiswalk.kintera.org/charis or send her an email at this.is.charis@gmail.com.

Apple Tree Help

by Ann Rothschild

 

Thanks to the Bee's Garden Detectives for showing us how to diminish apple codling moth from our apple tree. The larvae eat into apples and pears, but here's a non-toxic control.

 

Mix up 1 cup cider vinegar, 1/3 cup dark molasses, a dash of ammonia-add water to make up 1 ½ quarts and pour into a one gallon plastic milk or water jug. Hang the open jug in the tree and it serves as a trap. Keep tree pruned to reachable height and thin out any infested fruit.

 

Lots of information at www.ipm.ucdavis.edu and workshop info regarding pruning and home gardening at www.ucanr.org/sacmg

Camp Noel Porter Summer 2013

  

Planning for Summer? Be sure to add a week at Camp Noel Porter for your child this summer. Along with the wonderful camp program, Noel Porter is offering a special Choir Camp for youth third to ninth grades. The camp will be directed by Janie Knudsen from St. Martin's, Davis using the Royal School of Church Music program. There will be lots of singing but also time for swimming in Lake Tahoe, hiking in Squaw Valley, nightly campfires and a final concert for friends and families.

 ... Movie Night at St. Paul's showing "The Way" a feature-length film starring Martin Sheen, Saturday, May 4, 6:30pm -- all in support of Canon Lynell Walker's coming sabbatical pilgrimage to Spain's famed Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

Popcorn, home baked treats, "Walk a Mile with Lynell" pocket prayer stones will be available for donations in support of her journey. The movie is inspiring; the evening will be a lot of fun.

St. Paul's church is located at 15th & J Streets, downtown. Free on-street parking; parking garage at 15th & L.

Hearts Set on the Pilgrim's Way

Spring Retreat with Bishop Christopher Epting

  

In his retreat "Hearts Set on the Pilgrim's Way," Bishop Christopher will share reflections of his life and forty years in the ordained ministry...and what he has learned about God on the journey. After  thirteen years as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa and nine years as the Presiding Bishop's Deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, he now serves in retirement as Assisting Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and Episcopal Visitor for the Community of the Transfiguration.

For further information please contact the Sisters of the Transfiguration, 1633 D Street, Eureka, CA 95501, (707) 442-3304, alicereid325@gmail.com or srdianact@gmail.com.