Office Ministers Needed

We are in need of 2 people to help in the office. Each shift is 4 hours. The days and times we need to fill are Thursday and Friday mornings from 9 AM - 1 PM. Responsibilities include answering and distributing phone calls, greeting and assisting people who come to the office, distributing mail, and general office skills. General computer literacy is necessary. Experience with Microsoft Office Word and/or Excel are preferred but not required. Please contact Jerry Paré (jpare111452@gmail.com; 930-8032) for more information. Thank you!

Thursday Night at the Cathedral

Small Group

Radical Inclusion small group discussion - After hearing Yvette Flunder speak on this subject, come and participate in a small group discussion about Creating, Sustaining, Celebrating and Preaching to Community. Facilitator is Pamela Anderson.

Classes

• Facilitator - Vaughn Wolff: Finding Faith Hope and Love. This will be an exercise in listening and sharing our stories with an emphasis on spiritual awareness and the evidence of God working in us, in our environments and in the world. Learning how to be at Peace in spite of Adversity is the demonstration of spirit. Coming to a place of confidence that everything matters to God where we find Good in everything we see, hear, touch, feel, know and think, is the homecoming we all seek; and then we are equipped with the Light of Christ to walk back down into the dark places to bring the Light of Faith Hope and Love to those who are weary with the heaviness of a troubled life.  

• Facilitator - Susan Hotchkiss: Holy Women, Holy Men Celebrating the Saints.  This wonderful resource contains lives of men and women who have served God and humanity from ancient history to more current times.  We will discuss the make up of the book and delve into the historic context that put these people in the places and times God needed them to be. 

Mission Avenue Players

Presents

Readers' Festival May 2015

May 23 and 30 - 7:30pm

May 24 - 6:00pm

May 31 - 2:00pm

at St. Michael's Episcopal Church

2140 Mission Avenue, Carmichael

General Admission is $10

All proceeds benefit St. Matthew's Food Closet

Come and see our own John Tennyson and 

Bob and Dale Reinhard

PENTECOST

Speaking in Tongues

Sunday, May 24 at all services

Fifty days after the great celebration of Easter - Christ's resurrection from the dead - we have another great feast to celebrate: the coming of the Holy Spirit to Jesus' Apostles and to us - the Feast of Pentecost! Sometimes referred to as the birthday of the Church, Pentecost is one of the most important days of the Christian year. This year Pentecost is celebrated on May 24th. In the liturgical year, the color red represents the Holy Spirit. One will see red hangings on the Altar, the pulpit and the lectern. Many wear red to symbolize the Holy Spirit coming as in "tongues of fire". We hear the story from the Acts of the Apostles: "Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability."

We will once again share the reading of scripture in "foreign languages". One verse from The Acts of the Apostles is read in as many languages as we have people to share them. If you speak another language, please share that gift with our Cathedral family. It is always great fun to hear this same verse over and over in languages that we do not know, but still share.

Contact Elizabeth Kenealey at superverger@yahoo.com if you'd like to read.

The gift of the Holy Spirit to all

The birth of God's church

Pentecost!

Certainly cause for great rejoicing.

Canon Elizabeth Kenealey

Newcomers' Group

Meets in Room C at 10:15am

A new group begins with Introductions.

All are invited to be with us especially Newcomers and visitors. If you have questions contact Randie Strike at email randie.trinity@gmail.com or 916-446-2513.

Parenting Matters:

for parents and grandparents

of teenagers

 Meets in the Assembly Area at 10:15am

Please join the Rev. Kathy Hopner on the fourth Sunday of each month during the Sunday School hour to explore together the issues parents face today.

Canon David Link

Come and Celebrate

Canon Link's Anniversary!

Friday, May 29 at 7:00pm

You are invited to share in a special celebration of Canon David Link's 30th anniversary as the director of music at Trinity. Please join the Cathedral Choir, the Celebration Choir and the Cathedral Choristers in congratulating David on this milestone for building and sustaining one of the finest church music programs in Northern California. Let's all wish him Godspeed before he leaves on a well-deserved sabbatical this summer. Refreshments will be provided, and the three choirs will give David a big musical send-off. Please honor David with your prayers and your presence.

Loaves & Fishes Interfaith Prayer Service 

 Thursday, June 4th, 7:00pm at

Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament

1017 11th Street, Sacramento

You are invited to a special prayer service uniting the faith community at Loaves & Fishes. After thirty two years of service to our guests experiencing homelessness our 7 Millionth meal will be served later this year. Without the combined love, mercy, and compassion from various faith traditions many meals would have laid fallow. Join us as we celebrate the heart of service that unites us.

Deacon Steve Skiffington will be doing a reading at this service.    Follow this link for more information.

Veterans Swapping Stories

Sunday, June 7 at 10:15am in the Assembly Area

Attention all Veterans! We are moving VSS to the first Sunday of the month to better serve you, starting June 7 we will be meeting in the Assembly Area upstairs from 10:15 to 11:15, there we will be getting to know one another and swapping stories so bring your coffee and munchies!

Introduction to the Old Testament

Are you smarter than a 5th Grader? Fifth graders at Trinity spend the entire academic year studying the Bible. If you think they might now have one up on you, then attend the course, Introduction to the Old Testament from June 7 - August 16 in Room A after the 9:00 service. Don't feel you have to attend all classes. Please bring a Bible. (Early on we will talk about recommended translations.) Donald Grigg's The Bible from Scratch: The Old Testament for Beginners is recommended but not required. (Copies are available in the Bookshop.) NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE IS REQUIRED. After all, our 5th graders didn't know that much about it before their 5th grade year. But now they know there are 2, count them 2 creation stories! They know that the Prophet Ezekiel was a wild and crazy guy! (Who else would have visions of dry bones rising up to be the nation of Israel?) They know that the Song of Solomon is a beautiful love song (or maybe they didn't get that far.)

This course is meant to provide a basic understanding of the Old Testament or Hebrew Scriptures. These are the scriptures Jesus was always quoting. We will start with the basics: What is the Bible? Where is the Old Testament located in the Bible? What is a "good" translation? What makes it "good"? and move on to study the Law (1st 5 Books of the Hebrew Scriptures); the Prophets (there are more than Isaiah & Jeremiah) -these are the 2 parts Jesus often refers to when he refers to "the Scriptures say..."; or "according to the Law and the Prophets" And we will spend time on the historical books and the "Writings." Come and check it out!

Jerry Paré will teach this course. He has a Master of Arts in Scripture from the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California and knows how to make those dry bones talk! Jerry long ago realized that, like the Prophet Jeremiah, God seduced him, and he let himself be seduced (Jer 20:7) Woo!! 

Women's Retreat

June 12-14 at the Mercy Center in Auburn

This event sold out last year!

Enjoy the company of other women exploring their faith during this popular event. Mercy Retreat Center in Auburn provides a peaceful, restorative setting to relax into as we explore the Emmaus Journey, our theme for this year.

The Reverends Dr. Pamela Anderson and Diana Turner will lead our weekend. The program begins at 7:00 p.m. Friday and ends at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday.  Limited carpooling is available.

Registration fee of $185 includes overnight accommodations, meals on Saturday and breakfast Sunday. Plus crafts, fun and fellowship! Please contact Pastor Pamela at pamela@trinitycathedral.org, if you are in need of partial financial assistance.

Registration forms are available in the Bookshop. Accommodations are limited to 40, so sign up early to ensure a space.