Office Ministers STILL 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. 

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.

Mission Avenue Players

Presents

Readers' Festival May 2015

May 30 - 7:30pm

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

Growing in Faith:

The End and Beginning of a Journey

January 2015 Rite of Commitment

This Sunday we celebrate the Affirmation of Vocation for those who have journeyed together this year in Growing in Faith. The rite is simple: Those declaring their vocation with their sponsors come up to the front of the church near the end of the Mass. The Dean prays over them. Their sponsors and they declare how they are called to serve, and they go out with the rest of us to do just that. They "go forth to love and serve the Lord!" as the Deacon proclaims.

Why this pageantry? The rites we celebrate with the catechumenate or "Growing in Faith," -- the Rite of Commitment in January; the Rite of Enrollment at the beginning of Lent; baptisms, confirmations, receptions and affirmations at the Easter Vigil; the Affirmation of Vocation this Sunday - help the candidates, sponsors and all of us mark significant moments in our faith journeys. We remember and renew our commitment to Christ and the Church. We remember and renew our baptism and confirmation. We remember and renew our sense of call and our response.

We will begin the journey again this next Advent with a new group of adults and sponsors seeking baptism, confirmation, reception into the Episcopal Church or formal Renewal of Faith. Please consider joining us. Take some time to consider how you want to celebrate your journey of faith at this time. If that may be through the group discussions and rites of the catechumenate, then come on Sunday afternoons from 3 - 5 PM, starting in December.

Newcomers' Group

Meets in Room C at 10:15am

The group will view and discuss a video.

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.

Get Ready........

Thanksgiving for the LGBT Community

and Solidarity for Equal Rights

The United States Supreme Court will soon announce a landmark ruling regarding marriage equality and most specifically the rights of lesbian and gay couples to marry in all fifty states. This ruling will be announced during the month of June.

Trinity Cathedral is working with a coalition of faith community members to actively support our LGBT sisters and brothers with participation in two events:

1. On the day the ruling is announced there will be a rally on the steps of the Capitol building at 6:00 pm.   Please join us to ensure that the Sacramento faith community is represented! We expect a large crowd. I will announce from the podium a Service of Thanksgiving which will take place the following Sunday. We will also be distributing flyers of invitation.
2. On the Sunday following the ruling a multi-faith Service of Thanksgiving will be held at 3:00 pm. Regardless of the decision, "win or lose", the tone of the service will be one of thanksgiving. We are thankful for God's wonderfully diverse creation. We are thankful for God's presence in our lives. We are thankful to be blessed with the knowledge that the Holy Spirit will continue moving to bring justice and peace to our world. The service will be held at Congregation B'nai Israel on Riverside Blvd unless the ruling is announced the last week of June making the service day fall on the last Sunday, June 28th. In that case, the service will be held at Pioneer Congregational United Church of Christ on 27th and L Streets.

More information on both events will be announced as it becomes available.

I do hope that you will take these opportunities to join with others to show God's love as we stand together in thanksgiving and solidarity with the LGBT community and all people of conscience.

The Rev. Steve Skiffington

deaconskiff@gmail.com

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.  

Walk for a JUST Affordable Housing Ordinance

Thursday, June 25th

Join the faith community and other low-income housing advocates in walking to City Hall to take a stand for a JUST Affordable Housing Ordinance to create desperately-needed housing for low-income individuals & families, seniors and the disabled. Meet in front of Trinity at 4:45 pm to walk, or at City Hall at 9th & I Streets by 6 pm to attend the hearing before city council. For more information: contact Shireen Miles at (916) 203-5595 or shireenmiles@comcast.net 

~~ Submitted by Shireen Miles