Prayer List - to submit a prayer request click here.

Altar Flowers - if you would like to dedicate Altar Flowers click here.

We worship on Sunday mornings at 9am here.

You can find the Sunday bulletin here.

There’s a coloring sheet for children (or adults!) based on the Sunday lessons that you can print out at home here. If you can’t print at home, e-mail Karen Van Winkle and she will print a few weeks’ worth and mail them to you.

Sunday School for Adults meets on Zoom here.

We say Compline on Wednesdays at 8pm here.

You can find the Compline bulletin here.

Zoom meetings require a password to enter, but you should be able to bypass that by clicking on these links. The password for all of our meetings is trinity. 

The 9am choir, 11:15am choir, and the Children’s Choir Zoom meetings are on summer break, but will begin meeting again in the fall for some non-singing educational and fellowship time.

The parish office is closed. Barbara and Fr. Todd will be in on Sundays and occasional weekdays to take care of mail, finances, and other essential work to keep the parish running. If you need to be in touch with any of us, e-mail us or call us (Fr. Todd’s mobile: 916.367.9281) or call the church office (916.985.2495), which has been rerouted to go to Barbara’s mobile phone. Barbara and Fr. Todd are on e-mail for most of the day, so if you e-mail us (Fr. Todd [ tbruce@trinityfolsom.org]; Barbara [ trinity@trinityfolsom.org]), we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Our word of the week is bishop. Our denomination’s name, Episcopal, is derived from the Greek word for bishop, so clearly bishops are an important part of our identity. Our bishop, the Right Reverend Megan McClure Traquair, will be joining us for worship this Sunday for our parish’s patronal feast day (Trinity Sunday). Bishop Traquair will join our livestream on our Facebook page and preach from her office.

This Sunday is our final class before we go on summer break – we’ll be back August 16th! We’ll meet on Zoom  here at 10:15am on Sunday morning. The password for all our Zoom meetings is trinity. This Sunday, our bishop, the Rt. Rev’d Megan Traquair will be joining us for the first part of the class to talk to y’all, and then we’ll have some open discussion time with her and with Fr. Todd. And if you missed it, you can find a recording of last Sunday’s class  here.

If you’re interested in joining the EfM group we will be starting this fall (see the article near the end of this e-mail), we invite you to join Joanie Cahill (9am) and Tim Knight (11:15am) for a Zoom meeting on Thursday, June 11th, at 6:30pm. Joanie will give a short presentation on EfM, and then Tim and Joanie will answer questions. The Zoom meeting is here.

Trinity Wednesdays is meeting on Wednesdays at 6pm on Zoom here. Our book is David Brooks’ The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. This coming Wednesday, we’ll be discussing chapters four through eight. 

Our own Libby Vincent will be ordained to the transitional diaconate on Saturday, June 13th, at 11am. The ordination will be held at the cathedral in midtown Sacramento, and due to the coronavirus, is closed to the public. It will be broadcast on the diocesan website, and the diocesan Facebook page here, and we are planning on sharing it on our own parish Facebook page, too.

I haven’t read all of these, but they’ve been recommended to me by people I trust. I’m reading White Fragility right now and have ordered The Color of Law because I’m particularly interested in the history of racist land use policies, especially those instituted by the government – listen to Terry Gross interview the author here. I have tried to include many different perspectives, but this is not a comprehensive list by any means. Race in America is far more complicated than black and white, and you’ll notice that Latinx and Asian-American voices are notably missing on this list, and though there are some, more conservative voices are also mostly missing from this list; but I think that this is a good place to start for the current moment. You might not agree with something you read here, but I think that’s a good thing; you might be challenged to think about your own perspective and to try on someone else’s, and you might learn something and grow. I hope you will. 

I tried to make a short list, but I’m not very good at that, so I’ve put an asterisk by the titles that are probably good places to start or most accessible to all of us. The New York Times published a much broader anti-racist reading list this week; you can find it here. If you learn best through non-fiction, try Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye or Beloved, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, James Baldwin’s Another Country, Richard Wright’s Native Son, or Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. For children, check out this reading list here. ~ Fr. Todd+

*The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness ~ Michelle Alexander

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide ~ Carol Anderson

*I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness ~ Austin Channing Brown

Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart ~ Christena Cleveland

*Between the World and Me ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

*The Cross and the Lynching Tree ~ James H. Cone

Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God ~ Kaitlin Curtice

*White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism ~ Robin DiAngelo

Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God ~ Kelly Brown Douglas

*The Souls of Black Folk ~ W. E. B. DuBois

Killing Rage: Ending Racism ~ bell hooks

Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race ~ Debby Irving

How to Be an Antiracist ~ Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America ~ Ibram X. Kendi

Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation ~ Latasha Morrison

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family ~ Pauli Murray

*Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage ~ Pauli Murray

Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural ~ edited by Claudine O’Hearn

*So You Want to Talk About Race ~ Ijeoma Oluo

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America ~ Richard Rothstein

*Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption ~ Bryan Stevenson

Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity ~ David W. Swanson

*Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race ~ Beverly Daniel Tatum

Jesus and the Disinherited ~ Howard Thurman

*White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son ~ Tim Wise

A few additions to the list of graduates!

Ryan Klun (son of Joe & Shannon, grandson of Ken & Lynn Steen) was graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in economics.

Liam Kratzer (grandson of Ken & Lynn Steen) was graduated from Bainbridge High School and is heading to the University of Washington.

Thomas Kratzer (grandson of Ken & Lynn Steen) was graduated from Bainbridge High School and is heading to San Diego State.

This week’s postlude is Prelude in B Major by Marcel Dupré (1886-1971). In addition to being one of the most influential pedagogues, performers and improvisers of the 20th century, Dupré’s compositions for organ have been noted to represent “some of the last great examples of virtuoso symphonic tradition in French organ music.” Prelude in B Major is the first movement from Three Preludes and Fugues, opus 7, an early work written by Dupré in 1914. These pieces were considered unplayable at the time by many organists, hopefully you won’t think the same after hearing me play it on Sunday! Like other French toccatas (from the Italian, toccare, to touch), there is a rapid figuration in the hands throughout the entire piece with the theme stated in the pedals, giving the prelude an overall sense of strength and stability. ~ Brett Judson, Director of Music

Beautiful Camp Galilee, the Episcopal camp on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, had to cancel its summer programs for children, but they are offering a socially distanced family camp experience on a few weekends (June 26-28, July 3-5, July 17-19, July 24-26, July 31-August 2) this summer. Meals are provided by the camp, and you can spend your time kayaking on the lake, exploring the hiking trails in the area, or just soaking in the beauty on the shore of Lake Tahoe. Lodging for two nights and six meals starts at $150 a person. Spots are filling up quickly, so if you’re interested, call 775.749.5546 or e-mail info@galileetahoe.org for more info, or check out www.galileetahoe.org and register at www.galileetahoe.org/register. 

Are you a member of Thrivent Financial? Trinity Folsom has been enrolled in Thrivent Choice, a member-advised program allowing Thrivent members to recommend where Thrivent Financial distributes its charitable outreach funds. Thrivent Financial is a not-for-profit financial services organization founded in 1902 as a fraternal benefit society called the Aid Association for Lutherans in Wisconsin and Other States; renamed Thrivent Financial for Lutherans in 2002, Thrivent Financial dropped the “for Lutherans” and opened itself up to non-Lutheran members in 2013. At least one Trinity Folsom parishioner is a member of Thrivent Financial and has directed Thrivent charitable funds to us. If you’re a member of Thrivent Financial, we would love to be the recipient of your Thrivent Choice dollars and appreciate your consideration!

Education for Ministry (EfM) is a four-year program of theological education using small-group study and discussion. Several congregations in our area have EfM groups, and several Trinity Folsom parishioners have participated in them over the years. We’ve decided it’s time that we try to start an EfM program here for the convenience of our parishioners, and because we have such a robust Christian formation program, with Sunday School for Adults, the Wednesday Bible Study, Trinity Wednesdays and more, we think there might be a few of you out there who would be interested in participating. EfM is a commitment: the small group meets weekly for thirty-six weeks for four years, and there is an enrollment fee of $375 each year (text books are included in this fee, and I have some scholarship money for those who need it, just ask!). But people who have been through the EfM program can’t say enough good things about it, how much they have learned and how much their faith and spiritual journey have benefited from being a part of it. I know, too, that in the parish I served in Kansas City, the people in EfM formed strong and lasting relationships with one another, and were cornerstones in our liturgical, formation, and outreach ministries.  Joanie Cahill (9am) and Tim Knight (11:15am), who are currently members of EfM groups in other local congregations, have agreed to serve as the group leaders/mentors, and you can e-mail them if you would like to know more about EfM and their experience in it. You can also check out the EfM website  here. We’re hoping to start our group this fall. We’ll need six participants in order to start a group here at Trinity Folsom; if you are interested, or would just like to talk to me about it, send me an e-mail or give me a call. ~ Fr. Todd+

Trinity Episcopal Church

 801 Figueroa Street

Folsom, CA 95630

(916) 985-2495 ~ www.trinityfolsom.org