| Join Our List |
 |
| Aumbry Candle Memorials |
Many Dates Remain Available
Click here to download the Aumbry Candle
Request Form
The Aumbry candle which burns
continuously
in the Trinity Church chapel can be donated as a memorial to a loved one or as a thank offering for a nominal donation of $5 per week. If you'd like to offer the candle, please contact the church offfice at 860-527-8133.
|
| Flower Requests |
Many Dates Remain Available
Click
here
to download the Altar Flower
Request Form
If you would like to offer the Altar Flowers as a memorial or thank offering, please fill out the form printed in the bulletin insert send it to the parish office. Checks may be made payable to Trinity Church with "Flowers" written in the memo space. Be sure to fill out a form for your requests each year. (Suggested offering is $50).
|
|
|
Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
~~ Collect for Easter Day
|
|
Worship at Trinity
|
|
C
lick above for the readings
8AM Eucharist with Sermon and Hymns
10 AM Eucharist with Sermon, Hymns and Anthems
Anne Rapkin, Preaching
Thursday Noon Eucharist, Memorial Chapel
|
|
Adult Christian Formation - Sunday, April 28
|
|
What's New with the Campaign for Trinity?
The Campaign for Trinity has been very busy in the month and we would like to preview some of our achievements before the Public Launch on Tuesday, April 30. Join us on Sunday, April 28 at the Adult Christian Forum. Co-chairs Andrew Smith and Mark MacGougan will share some exciting news about our fundraising to date as well as talk about when and where work will begin on campus this spring.
|
|
Tying Up Loose Ends - 2019 Sneaker Project!
|
|
Trinity's Outreach Team's Lenten Sneaker Project had many participants! Thank you to all who provided the gift of New Sneakers for our Trinity Academy students. We had 100% participation - all the tags were taken. But we are still waiting for some sneakers to make their way back to Trinity for distribution.
|
|
Thank You Corner
|
|
As Trinity readied for Holy Week and the glorious Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday celebrations, so many of our parishioners were on the campus cooking, raking leaves, mowing the lawn, polishing silver, checking supplies, at music rehearsals, looking for flowers and so much more! Thank you to each and every one!!!
|
|
Easter Message from the Bishops:
"Claiming Alleluia"
|
|
Dear Companions in Christ,
Happy Easter! Blessings on this most Holy of Days! The story of the Resurrection of Jesus claims our day, and our lives! Alleluia! We claim and proclaim Alleluia!
We claim the truth of the Resurrection in the honest light of our present stories. What a week we have had. What a Holy Week! Our journey to the cross this year has included our grief at the death of our brother Jack Spaeth, faithful servant to the Episcopal Church in Connecticut for decades, while the same day we watched the historic Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris become engulfed in flames. We hold these two losses and countless others as we journey to the cross witnessing the death of our Lord on Good Friday. Our stories mingling with Christ's story, our tears a mixture of emotions for the past and for our present as well.
But our faith is an Easter faith! Jesus Christ is Risen from the dead! The tomb is empty, the hope is true! God is the God of compassion and new life and we claim that joy! We see it in the resurrection of our Lord! We know it when we think about our dear friend Jack Spaeth now embraced in the arms of the God he served so well. We know it in the reality that Notre Dame, a Cathedral that has held the prayers of countless pilgrims from around the world for centuries, faithful men and women praying to the God of resurrection, will be restored and have new life.
Claiming Alleluia is an audacious act of life in the face of death. We are to claim such life in our own lives and then share it with others. Mary at the tomb, believing in the truth of the resurrection went and told others what she had seen and heard. Our Alleluias must do the same! Proclaiming Alleluia in word and action, speaking out against injustice and binding up the broken-hearted.
The world needs our Alleluia. God is calling us to claim it and proclaim it! The tomb is empty. New life is real. How shall you claim and proclaim this glorious truth?
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! The Lord is Risen indeed!
The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas The Rt. Rev. Laura J. Ahrens
Bishop Diocesan Bishop Suffragan
|
|
"Maundy Thursday"
|
|
 |
|
Supporting African American History in the Public Schools
|
|
 |
|
Men's Bible Study
|
|
A Men's Bible Study at St. John's, West Hartford meets every Thursday morning from 6:30 am to 7:30 am in the Reception Room from September to June. Coffee is provided. . For more information, please contact Matt Fitzsimons at 860-263-8138.
|
|
"Good Friday Noon"
|
|
 |
Free Health Screening at Grace Lutheran
|
|
|
|
Join Team Trinity:
Trinity Feeds His Flock
|
|
Foodshare Walk Against Hunger
Saturday, April 27th, 10:00 a.m.
Step up to the plate to knock hunger out of the Park at the 36th Annual Foodshare Walk Against Hunger -- Saturday, April 27th 10:00 at Dunkin' Donuts Park - home of the Hartford Yard Goats!
Join our Team: Trinity Episcopal Church Hartford to help make an impact on hunger in Greater Hartford! The Foodshare Walk Against Hunger is not only Foodshare's largest fundraiser, but also the largest anti-hunger event of its kind in Connecticut. Please help aid in this effort by joining the Trinity Team. For registration online go to:
FoodshareWalk.org. Click on "Join a team" or register as an individual. You don't need to be an individual fundraiser to participate. We walk together!
Donations from individuals who will not be walking are also needed and welcome. These can be made on-line or to a walker. Please make checks out to Foodshare with Walk for Hunger in the memo, Contact: Team leader: Kate Smith at kate48smith@comcast.net or (860-519-1591) for more information.
|
ECCT Spring Training
|
|
|
EfM Open House Monday April 29 at 6:30 pm
St James, West Hartford
|
|
|
EFM (Education for Ministry) is a challenging and rewarding program for lay people, which combines an examination of the Scriptures, church history and theology in a small group setting.
An EfM Open House is scheduled for Monday April 29 at 6:30 in the Parish Room at St. James in West Hartford. Contact Ron Ward for additional information: 860-463-8057; e-mail: rtwtmr@comcast.net.
|
|
"Easter Vigil"
|
|
 |
Asylum HIll Neighborhood Association
|
|
 |
|
Trinity Book Group: 10 May 2019
|
|
You're invited to join other Trinity parishioners for a discussion of the recent autobiography Becoming by Michelle Obama, the latest selection of Trinity's book
group. The book begins with her childhood in the south side of Chicago and continues through her time in the White House.
The gathering will take place on Friday, May 10th, 7:00-9:00 pm, at the West Hartford home of Mark and Linda MacGougan. All are welcome! If you'd like to attend, please let Mark or Linda know so that there will be plenty of refreshments for everyone. (macgougans@gmail.com; 860-561-1588).
|
"Easter Sunday: Children and Young People"
|
|
 |
"Easter Sunday: Choirs"
|
|
 |
|
Grounds Workday, May 11
|
|
Spring is here and the Property Team has scheduled a grounds workday for Saturday, May 11, from 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. Please plan to join others as we spruce up the church's plantings and gardens. Bring your work gloves and a rake if you can. Peter Green, from the Property Team, will be on hand to direct activities.
|
| Save the Date |
|
50th (or more) Wedding Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, May 19 -- Christ Church Cathedral
The ECCT Aging and Life Planning Ministry Network is preparing a Golden Wedding Anniversary Celebration for ALL couples who, in 2019, will have been together for 50 years (or more), and are presently married. This event will be held at Christ Church Cathedral on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 3:00 p.m.
The purpose of this celebration is to honor couples that have realized this milestone, to publicly celebrate the vows the Church holds up in marriage, and to be an inspiration to others. The liturgy will include the renewal of marriage vows and presentation of commemorative certificates to all couples. A reception will follow with Bishop Ian and Bishop Laura present to celebrate with the couples at this joyful service.
Please let Barbara in the Church Office know no later than April 5 if you fall into this category and would like to be invited to this celebration. (office@trinityhartford.org ; tel. 860-527-8133)
|
|
River Pilgrimage this Spring: Registration Open!
|
|
The Southeast and South Central Regions of ECCT in partnership with Kairos Earth are bringing back a
Connecticut River Pilgrimage
this spring. It's shorter - just Connecticut. Pilgrims are invited to move deeply into prayer, contemplation, and movement by canoe or kayak as a community together from May 24-31.
There are two three-day options. Guides will again be Mark and Lisa Kutolowski, guides for the
2017 River Pilgrimage
. The pilgrimage is open to applications from all faith backgrounds or none at all.
More info and registration here
|
|
Cystic Fibrosis Walk on June 1: Bake Sale on June 9th
|
|
It seems that winter is finally ending! We are looking forward to June! Team Strolling for Sarah will be heading out on Saturday June 1st, (10 am.) at Pine Grove School in Avon. Note the date and location change as Kate and Drew will be away in May on a hiking trip. Kate and Drew Smith's granddaughter, Sarah, was born with Cystic Fibrosis; she is now 9 years old and doing well. We do our annual walk (3 miles) to support the Great Strides program which raises research dollars for this genetic lung disease. We invite you to walk with us and enjoy a picnic lunch afterwards. Let us know you're coming and you get a free team T- shirt! Can't make the date? Join the team as a virtual walker by visiting Kate's website: http://fightcf.cff.org/goto/KateSmith
Our annual bake sale will be the weekend after the walk on Sunday June 9th. We will have cakes, pies, cookies, brownies, breads, muffins and more. Would you like us to make you a specific item? Let me know by Sunday, June 2. And finally, we always welcome more bakers! Please contact me with any questions. My email is: Kate48smith@comcast.net or call 860-519-1591.
Kate and Drew Smith thank you!
|
|
| |
|
