Bambi Willis would like folks to post a picture of their baptismal certificates on Trinity’s Facebook page for All Saints’ Day. You can post your baptismal certificate as a response to the post for All Saints’ Day. If you would like, you may send a picture of your certificate to Sam Burton at sburton@trinity-fredericksburg.org BY TODAY and she will post it for you.

ALSO, it has been our tradition to pray for those who have died that are dear to us. Bambi will pray for those we remember by name during the November 1st All Saint’s Day online service. If you would like her to pray for someone dear to you, please email Denise or leave a message at the office by TOMORROW, October 28th. Please speak clearly and spell those names that might possibly get misspelled. (540) 373-2996.

communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son

Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints

in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those

ineffable joys that you have prepared for those who truly love

you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy

Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

We in the Diocese of Virginia join with Episcopalians across the nation and around the work of a Novena - nine day of prayer from October 27 through November 4. This A Season of Prayer: For an Election has been organized by Forward Movement and The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations.  

The prayer for today is found above. You can sign up for the daily prayers here or you can find a printable pdf of all of the prayers here.

This week the task force will be reviewing just one book: LOVE IS THE WAY: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times, Bishop Michael Curry, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will lead a live-streamed prayer service from Washington National Cathedral, HOLDING ON TO HOPE: A NATIONAL SERVICE FOR HEALING AND WHOLENESS, on All Saints Sunday, November 1, at 4:00-5:30 p.m. EST. In the midst of pandemic, racial reckoning, and a historic election, the live-streamed service will gather Americans for prayer, song, lament, hope, and a call to love God and neighbor. The service will feature an ecumenical and multifaith array of voices, musical offerings, and prayers. Using a combination of live and visually stunning pre-recorded elements gathered from across the nation, the service will be live streamed in English and Spanish. Click here for more information and to watch the service.

On August 3, 1990, President of the United States George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as “NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH,” thereafter commonly referred to as “Native American Heritage Month.” The month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people, also known as “Indigenous People.” For more information, click here.

VIRTUAL COFFEE HOUR continues this Sunday, November 1st at 9:30 a.m. Zoom meeting ID # 441 267 3172 and the password is 6YiW22. This will be a recurring Zoom meeting with the same ID and password each Sunday. We ask that everyone mute their microphones when we start the Zoom meeting to minimize background noise. You can unmute when and if you want to speak. We look forward to seeing you!

Families with children are invited to join us for ONLINE SUNDAY SCHOOL this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. for a 40 to 50-minute Sunday school lesson on Zoom. Our time together will include a few minutes of social (gathering) time, some songs we all know, some prayer time, a story, and an easy craft response to the story. This will be geared for children ages 5 through fifth grade, but older and younger people are welcome too. Each child/person will need a pencil, a few sheets of paper, and some crayons or colored pencils. I will email additional materials to everyone on Friday. If you have not received emails in the past with the information to join the class meeting and would like for your child to participate, please contact Sam Burton at sburton@trinity-fredericksburg.org.

YOUTH GROUP will meet this Sunday, November 1st, from 2:00-3:00 pm by Zoom. We will watch a brief TED Talk video and have a discussion afterwards. We will also catch up on what everyone has been doing and play some games. Sam will send a reminder email on Friday with handouts and the instructions for getting into the meeting. I hope your youth will be able to join us! Trusted friends may be invited to participate in the Zoom meeting as well, just forward Friday’s email to them.

St. George’s Episcopal Church will host a virtual concert via Facebook of SCARY MUSIC FOR ORGAN on Friday, October 30 at 7:30 p.m. This crowd favorite concert will include several works by J. S. Bach, including Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Fantasia in G minor and Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, along with pieces by Johann Pachelbel, Max Reger, and Olivier Messiaen. The concert is free with donations gladly accepted. For more information, contact 540.373.4133, music@stgeorgesepiscopal.net., or click here.

"JOY COMES IN THE MOURNING", a Meditation for the 21st Week after Pentecost, by Bishop Goff, can be found here.

General Convention Task Force invites Episcopalians to participate in survey “SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: A CALL FOR STORIES” Responses requested by: November 5, 2020. In the work of contemplating the theology of social justice advocacy in The Episcopal Church, the Task Force recognizes that different people have vastly different perspectives and experiences. For some, social justice advocacy may seem somewhat peripheral to their spiritual lives in the church; for others, social justice may have become an important focal point of their theology over time; for still others, the struggle for social justice is fundamental to and inseparable from their experience of what it is to be a Christian. The members of the Task Force would like to gather stories and deeper perspectives to support their work on behalf of the Church and invite Episcopalians to consider sharing their experience by completing the survey, “Social Justice and the Episcopal Church: A Call for Stories”. The survey can be found online here. This is a nationally-sponsored endeavor, not directly related to the work of the Trinity Dismantling Racism Task Force.

O Everlasting, Omniscient, and Loving God

We confess that our daily worries and concerns often blind us to your voice and guidance in our lives. We thank You for this time of change, may it be an opportunity to grow together more closely as followers of your son Jesus Christ as we work to discern your path forward for our congregation. We pray that You will watch over the Bishop, diocesan transitional ministry team, the parish clergy, members of our vestry, and the other leaders of our church as they lead us on a new path for our parish. We pray for the members of the discernment committee as they endeavor to do Your holy work in calling a new rector for Trinity. We pray for all the members of our parish family during this time of transition that we come closer to You and feel your presence in our hearts. AMEN.