Epiphany Celebration on Friday, Jan. 6, at 6 pm

EPIPHANY CELEBRATION! We will celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany with Holy Eucharist on Friday, January 6, at 6:00 pm, followed by a Festive Wine & Cheese Party in the Parish Hall. (We’ll have yummies for the kids, too!) Come and join us for this remembrance of one of the...

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Keeping the Faith–December 2016

My Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, By the time you read this, we will have lit one candle on our Advent wreath, asking Emmanuel, God-with-us, to ransom the captive and to teach us the ways of Wisdom. We have entered a season of expectation, preparation, and–I hope–some contemplation of...

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Why seasons matter.

Why does the Church follow a different calendar than the rest of the world? The patterns of our church calendar, based in liturgical seasons, frame our parish life.  The repeating cycles of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and the Season after Pentecost, sprinkled with Holy Days and Feasts, connect the...

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Christmas Services at Holy Trinity and St. Paul’s

Christmas Eve (Saturday, December 24) 4:30 pm at Holy Trinity — Traditional Christmas Eve Service with Children’s Pageant 7:30 pm at Holy Trinity — Traditional Christmas Eve Service with Organ & Strings 10:00 pm at St. Paul’s in Pendleton — Traditional Late Night Christmas Mass with Choir & Strings Christmas Day...

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Keeping the Faith–November 2016

My Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, My heart is so very full right now–filled with gratitude, love, and admiration.  I am grateful for the many, many generous gifts of time and talent that were outpoured in preparation for the Celebration of our New Ministry together on October 18.  Thanks...

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Finding Our Balance

I have just come in from a quiet morning of kayaking on Week’s Bay on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. I have spent the week preparing for the work of this afternoon, which is to write a Rule of Life for myself. However, our retreat leader reminded us as we...

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A New Parish Year

Change always brings challenges and opportunities. The ways that we experience change depend on how we balance the needs that prompt change and the emotions that result from change. There have been some big changes at Holy Trinity this year, and my observation is that the Wardens, your Vestry, the...

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Keeping the Faith

This has been a difficult summer for our country and for the world. Violent attacks on innocent people celebrating their cultures in Orlando and Nice, violent political upheavals in multiple African nations and Turkey, senseless deaths of American citizens at the hands of police, horrific ambushes designed to take the...

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