E-News: December 6, 2024

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From the Treasurer: Growing our Faith

The 2025 Stewardship pledge campaign concludes this Sunday when we will bless the pledges to God’s work in this Cathedral. It has been a truly amazing campaign. In a clear statement that Trinity Cathedral is moving in the right direction, people who pledged in both 2024 and 2025 increased their pledge by an average of 39%. So far, we have received pledges from 22 people who have not pledged before, averaging almost $2,000 per pledge. Thanks be to God!


While we are truly blessed by the results to date and sincerely thank everyone who has pledged, there is still some work to be done to meet our $400,000 goal. This is an ambitious goal, but we are called to be ambitious for Christ. The Chapter has built a draft budget assuming we will receive $400,000 in pledges. If we want to fully fund all of the exciting programs we are planning for 2025 including our centennial celebration, we must reach this goal.


If everyone who pledged in 2024 pledges again in 2025, and we can get another 25 new pledgers, then we should meet our goal. We can do this!!!


If you have never pledged, we ask you to prayerfully consider making 2025 the year you commit financially. If you pledged in the past, please consider increasing your pledge. In any case, please make your pledge before Sunday if you possibly can so we can celebrate together this next stage of our growth as a faith community.

On behalf of the Cathedral Chapter, we thank each and ever one of you for your generous contributions of time, talent, and treasure as we continue to grow our faith through Stewardship.


Sincerely,


Steve Kretsch

Cathedral Treasurer

Mission-Focused Stewardship for 2025

Please pledge by December 1st! Our annual stewardship campaign in support of the mission and ministries of the Cathedral is ongoing. We have a goal to raise $400,000 in pledges for 2025 so we can continue to grow in faith and reflect God’s grace and love in the heart of Miami.


Next year, we will celebrate the centennial of our beautiful cathedral building. We have amazing plans to mark this historic occasion in 2025 for both our church and the wider community. These first 100 years would not have been possible without the generations of Miamians who built and maintained this building as a living symbol of Christian hope and God's love in Downtown Miami. Now, it is our turn to continue the tradition and lay the foundation for the next 100 years as the spiritual center of Miami.



Please pledge generously to support the vital mission of this Cathedral community. The printable 2025 Stewardship pledge form can be downloaded here.


New this year, you can now make your 2025 Pledge online using our new, secure application called REALM!

Click on the Realm image below to make your 2025 pledge now!

Special Music during Advent


Join us at 10:00 a.m. on the four Sundays of Advent to hear excerpts from George Frideric Handel's Messiah. Thank you to Mr. Andrew Cooper and to the members of the Cathedral Choir for making this possible!

2024 Christmas Flowers


Help us to decorate the Cathedral this Christmas with beautiful poinsettias! Make a donation in honor of or in memory of a family member or friend. The donation deadline is December 19th. Use the donation form below or email the Cathedral office at office@trinitymiami.org. Thank you!


Donation Form

Mini-Retreat for Advent

THIS Saturday, December 7th 6 pm - 8 pm


Mishkhah - Enter into Mystery and Kate Eaton will offer a mini-retreat for Advent at Trinity Cathedral Miami on Saturday night, December 7th from 6-8pm.



These retreats are an opportunity to step away from all of life's challenges, responsibilities and preoccupations. Wherever you are now, you're invited to simply come as you are and step into the candle light and breathe deeply. The music, lighting, images, incense and ancient prayers of the liturgy will carry you across centuries and continents to join with those of faith who've gone before us. Our collective exhale will join our hearts with all those who strive for peace.


Click here for more information and to register!

Florida Keys Celtic Festival - Saturday, January 11th

Join us on the Trinity Cathedral Bus!!

Reserve your ticket today: office@trinitymiami.org

NEW ONLINE DIRECTORY FOR TRINITY CATHEDRAL


Our new online directory for the Trinity Cathedral community called "Realm Connect" is finally ready for launch!

Select for more information...

Sunday, December 8th

8:00 am

Holy Eucharist

8 am Bulletin

Ushers

Brian Avello


Reader

Diana Ohman

Clarence Smith

10:00 am

Choral Eucharist

10 am Bulletin

Ushers

Nina Schumann

Tony Major


Reader/Intercessor

Michelle Davidson

Faith Kenyon

12:15 pm

Santa Eucaristía

Boletín 12:15 pm

Ushers

Elias Taravay


Reader

Ana Barreto

Alexis Pastrano

Monday - 9th

6:15 pm Yoga in the Cathedral


Wednesday - 11th

12:10 pm Holy Eucharist w/Prayers for Healing


Friday - 13th

7:30 pm AA on the Bay


Saturday - 14th

9:00 am Cathedral Clean & Decorate

Prayer Requests

If you would like to include someone on the Prayer List or add an anniversary or birthday for special prayers, please call the Cathedral office at 305-456-8851, use the 'Contact Us' link on our website, or send an email ... 

office@trinitymiami.org

Also, please let us know when names can be removed from the list.

Sick - In Recovery

Esteban Rodriguez

Anita Damnavits

Robert Horton

Melba D. Leon

Anthony Munis

Doris Grey

The Reverend James Considine

Norma Wright

The Reverend Albert Halverstadt, Jr.

Cecilia

Loli Triana

Angie Halverstadt

Carol Vaughan

Carmenza Rave

Gema Montoya

Robert Reyes

Santiago Mathias Lesmes Real

Maria Valerio

Dominick Albertone

Birthdays

Mauricio Palacio

Charles Lutton


In Memoriam

Roland Peters

Betty Dakin

Samantha Senat


Anglican Cycle of Prayer

Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan

**The Livestream Guild needs VOLUNTEERS!!**

Would you like to learn to operate our new livestream system on Sunday mornings? We need your help!


Please email Father Jason at frjason@trinitymiami.org for more information.

Yoga in the Cathedral

December 9th, 16th at 6:15 pm

Immerse yourself in a truly rejuvenating and spiritual experience. All levels welcome! $20 (including mats and parking). Entry at the North Door (16th Street). To assure a prompt start, if at all possible please do sign up beforehand using this link. 

Second Saturday - December 14th at 8:30 a.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous at Trinity Cathedral

A newly-formed AA group is now meeting at the Cathedral on Friday evenings at 7:30. The group is the only one currently meeting in the Edgewater/Omni area, and we are honored to host this very important program for our community.

Altar Flowers & Sanctuary Candle

It is the tradition each week at Trinity Cathedral for individuals and families to make a donation for the altar flowers and the sanctuary candle in honor of or in memory of a family member, friend, or a specific cathedral ministry or organization. Names for the donations are listed in the Friday e-Newsletter and in the Sunday service bulletin.


Please email the Cathedral office at office@trinitymiami.org or call (305) 456-8851 to make your donations to this important ministry. 

Food Pantry Ministry 


These are difficult times and many struggle to make ends meet. When you come on Sundays, please consider bringing one or more items of canned or boxed food.  Items to consider include canned goods, peanut butter, packaged cereals, paper products, bottled water, dish and laundry soaps, boxed dinners, toiletry items, and feminine hygiene products. Remember that we cannot accept expired food or items that need refrigeration.

 

Gift Card Ministry 


The LGBTQ+ ministry has organized an on-going Gift Card collection drive to aid in the purchase of perishable food items for food pantry recipients. These cards are distributed on a weekly basis to families and individuals in need. To continue to help this cause or if you or someone you know could benefit from this ministry, please contact Roberto Soto at:

 

Trinity Cathedral, c/o Roberto Soto

464 N.E. 16th Street, Miami, FL 33132

(305) 456-8851 or via email roberto@trinitymiami.org

  

Names of donors and recipients will remain confidential

"Pews to Chairs" Project 


There is still time to donate a chair!


For many decades now, pews have been replaced by chairs in countless cathedrals and churches across the Episcopal Church and the world with remarkable success. In many cases, it has allowed congregations to experience a transformation and rebirth of their communities. Stackable, multi-use chairs will give Trinity a fully flexible and multi-purpose space that functions not only for worship, but for a variety of ministry and community events. (See the above picture of Trinity's new cathedral chairs which arrived the week before Christmas.)


The success of Transforming Trinity and the Pews to Chairs project depends on the donation of chairs by cathedral parishioners, congregations, and individuals across The Episcopal Church in Southeast Florida and the wider Church. Chairs may be donated in honor of or in memory of a loved one or in honor of a specific church, congregation, or organization. Please consider donating one or more chairs!


To donate: Please download the chair donation form HERE, complete it, and make your check payable to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Please make sure to write “Pews to Chairs” in the memo line. Mail checks and forms to: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 464 NE 16th Street, Miami, FL 33132. 


Online donations can also be made on the Cathedral website (www.trinitymiami.org) under the “Giving” tab – please be sure to choose the “Pews to Chairs Campaign” on the dropdown menu to designate your donation.


Please reach out to Father Jason by email at frjason@trinitymiami.org if you have any questions or concerns. You can also find more details about the Pews to Chairs project HERE.

We need Ushers and Lectors!


We you like to be an usher on Sunday mornings?


Would you like to read a scripture lesson or lead the Prayers of the People during our Sunday services? 


Please consider joining our Usher or Lector Ministries. We need volunteers to help fill these important roles during our Sunday worship.


If you are interested, please email Mr. Thomas Porto at thomas44a@gmail.com, or call the Cathedral office at 305-456-8851.

Join the Cathedral Flower Guild!


Do you love arranging flowers? Please consider joining the Cathedral Flower Guild. We need volunteers to help on Saturday mornings to arrange flowers for our Sunday worship services. 


If you are interested, please reach out to Mr. Roberto Soto at office@trinitymiami.org, or call the Cathedral office at 305-456-8851.

Morning and Evening Online Reflection

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Begin and end your weekday with online reflections. Reflections feature prayers, readings from Holy Scripture, and contemplative music and are led by clergy from National Cathedral in the morning and from Canterbury Cathedral in the evening. In addition, daily Choral Evensong song by the Canterbury Cathedral Choir is available online. Select the applicable link below for access.

Morning Prayers
Evening Prayers
Choral Evensong

The Second Sunday of Advent


God's prophetic grace often falls not on the powerful or the mighty, by on extraordinarily ordinary people who turn the world right-side up.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”


Bible Study in full...

As we continue our Advent walk, we invite you to see the Way of Love as a journey that can expand to include family and friends. Mary said “yes” to the call to birth Jesus, God’s Word, into the world and immediately went in haste to share her good news with her cousin, Elizabeth—a four-day journey into the Judean hills. Isn’t that what happens when we hear good news? We are driven to go and tell others. The Way of Love is good news that demands to be shared.

Advent Week 2
Download Week 2

Trinity in Pictures

The first Sunday of Advent was jam-packed!

Drew Green was commissioned as Verger at 10:00.

The Right Rev. Greg Rickel was preacher at both 8:00 and 10:00, and Bishop Rickel held a conversation about endangered sea turtles at 11:15.

Children who will receive first communion practiced their song for our celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe THIS Sunday at 12:15 pm. Thanks be to God!

Cathedral Office Hours

 Monday – Thursday 9:00 am until 3:00 pm

 In case of pastoral emergency, please call 786-682-5354.

 Email: office@trinitymiami.org


Cathedral Visits

The Cathedral doors are open Monday - Friday from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm for visits and for prayer.



Visit us at trinitymiami.org

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