This Week at Trinity - Pentecost Sunday! Wait! What IS Pentecost?

Weekly News and Thank-Yews from the Pews

This Sunday Worship & Fellowship Info

Facebook Live-Stream broadcast this

Sunday - Pentecost Sunday, May 31st at 9:00am.

**Readings for Sunday may be downloaded here.**

After the service, please join together through Zoom! for a virtual coffee hour - click here to gain access!

Wash Your Hands ~ Be Safe ~ Don't Panic ~ Be Kind

Online Services

Please join us for our Live-Stream service beginning at 9am every Sunday. Our Online Services are accessible from our Trinity website ( www.trinitysonoma.org ) under Online Services or by accessing our Facebook page at Trinity Episcopal Sonoma.

Within Online Services you will be able to select the following options:

Facebook Live-Stream - 9am
Virtual Coffee Hour - 10am
Sunday Reading
Special Prayers During Service
Past Video Services
Audio Sermons

Special Prayers During Service - at your fingertips!

At Trinity, we have grown so accustomed to using certain prayers in our worship that we have actually included them on the inside back cover of each of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) in our sanctuary. Now that we are live-streaming our services, your personal BCP may not have those handy stickers on the inside back cover. To help out, we have included these prayers on our new website ( trinitysonoma.org ). Look on the "Online Services" tab, and then look on the list for "Special Prayers During Service." Click there and you will find: Prayer Shawl Dedication, For a Birthday, For an Anniversary, and the Thomas Merton prayer that Fr. Jim reads at the end of each service. Hope this proves helpful!

Here is your direct link to the " Special Prayers During Service " webpage.

Online Giving

A special ‘thank you’ to all our parishioners who continue to mail in donations and stewardship pledges. We have also seen an increase in online giving through Realm.

Parishioners may continue to mail their donations and monthly stewardship pledge contributions to the parish office at 275 E. Spain Street, Sonoma, CA 95476. You can also easily provide your donation or pledge by accessing our website at www.trinitysonoma.org . From the home page, select ‘ Give to Trinity’ . After you enter the amount, from the drop down, you can select the General Fund, Pledges or Flowers. You may also sign in as a Guest or sign-in to your Realm account. You can make a one-time donation or set up for monthly donations based on the date of your choice.

For questions or assistance, please contact Ruben Cota Schultz at rdcjr@sbcglobal.net . Your continued financial support while our church is closed is greatly appreciated.

101 Reasons to be EPISCOPALIAN

#84: I love our church because we have poetry in our Prayer Book and in our Hymnal.

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton

Diocese of New York

From the book: 101 Reasons to be Episcopalian, compiled by Louie Crew. Morehouse Publishing, (2003).

These are great "listen-to"s and follow the teachings that were planned for this year's Lenten Evensongs and Soup Suppers.

Try one! You may find yourself informed, inspired, shocked, or prayerful --

or all of them at once, and all good for the soul!

Third season of :

The Way of Love with

Bishop Michael Curry

podcast series continues

May 26 with guest Jeff Chu

[May 26, 2020] Season 3 of The Episcopal Church’s podcast The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry , is now available. These weekly conversations, featuring Bishop Curry, podcast host Sandy Milien, and a variety of guests, center on ways to live a life committed to living the way of God’s unconditional, unselfish, sacrificial and redemptive love.

Season 3 changes include longer conversations between Bishop Curry and his guests: faith leaders, authors, and thinkers who are committed to following the Way of Jesus in the world today. Framed by the Way of Love – those seven practices of turning, learning, praying, worshipping, blessing, going, and resting – listeners will hear stories and lessons about how they can grow closer to God in daily life.

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks to Jeff Chu , who tells us about his extraordinary career as a journalist, farmer, writer, editor, teacher, and Christian thinker – and how he has come to see God moving throughout those roles. Having spent time among groups of people who radically disagree – about the Church, about human sexuality, about love itself – he describes some of the lessons he’s learned along the way. The two reflect on storytelling, Sabbath, and the ways we are called to pause, to look back on our experiences, and to begin to understand where God has led us and is currently leading us. This episode of The Way of Love Podcast is sponsored by Emory University’s Candler School of Theology , offering a Doctor of Ministry that is ninety percent online.

Season 3 episodes and guests include:

May 4 - Episode 1: Jen Hatmaker, New York Times best-selling author and podcast host
This episode of the Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Trinity Church Wall Street, which offers services streamed live and on demand in HD six days a week.

May 11 - Episode 2: The Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, Lutheran pastor, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker
This episode of the Way of Love podcast is sponsored by For People, a new podcast with Bishop Rob Wright about finding and holding on to Faith in the midst of the challenges of an ever-changing world. Listen via your favorite podcast player and learn more at episcopalatlanta.org/forpeople.

May 18: - Episode 3: Teddy Reeves, assistant curator of religion, Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Washington, D.C.
This episode of The Way of Love Podcast is sponsored by Church Pension Group.

May 25 - Episode 4: Jeff Chu, writer, reporter, editor, teacher and community leader
This episode of The Way of Love Podcast is sponsored by Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, offering a Doctor of Ministry that is ninety percent online.

June 1 Episode 5: Shane Claiborne, speaker, activist, and best-selling author

June 8 - Episode 6: Fr. Richard Rohr, founder, Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC), Albuquerque, New Mexico
This episode of The Way of Love Podcast is sponsored by Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

June 15 - Episode 7: Check back for more information - coming soon

If you missed Seasons 1 and 2, or want to go back and listen again, individual episodes, including bonus episodes and reflection guides are here and here .

The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry , is available on most podcast apps and at episcopalchurch.org . Visit the Way of Love podcast webpage to subscribe to the podcast through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify and to sign up for notifications of new seasons and episodes as well as additional featured content.

On the web:

Third season of The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry podcast continues May 26 with guest Jeff Chu

This Sunday, May 31st, is the Day of Pentecost:

The Birthday of the Church!

What IS Pentecost?

The term is used in the New Testament to refer to the coming of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1), shortly after Jesus' death, resurrection, and ascension. Christians came to understand the meaning of Pentecost in terms of the gift of the Spirit. The Pentecost event was the fulfillment of a promise which Jesus gave concerning the return of the Holy Spirit. The speaking in tongues, which was a major effect of having received the Spirit, is interpreted by some to symbolize the church's worldwide preaching. In the Christian tradition, Pentecost emphasizes that the church is understood as the body of Christ which is drawn together and given life by the Holy Spirit. Some understand Pentecost to be the origin and sending out of the church into the world.

[Excerpted from: https://episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/pentecost ] 5/28/2020.

Pentecost Chalk Challenge

Bishop Megan has issued a Pentecost Challenge. Get out your sidewalk chalk, create something fun, and post a picture on social media with the hashtags: #PentecostChalkChallenge and #NorCalEpiscopal

Will you draw a dove, some flowers, a flame? Or, will you write your favorite quote on the sidewalk somewhere? You may even post a picture of your hopscotch grid!

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Diocesan & Beyond News

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Highlights of Sunday's Service

Sermons at Trinity:

Can be viewed on the Trinity Facebook page, beginning Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 9:00am. The service has been archived on the Trinity Facebook page.

You can listen to past sermons on the parish website.

Sunday Snaps :

Will return when WE return!

Pastoral Care Corner

Your prayers are requested -

During our Online Services, you, members of your family or loved one may find yourself in need of extra support and prayers from our faith community. If you have a particular prayer request, please email Linda Dowd at lindahdowd@sbcglobal.net .

Prayer requests will be added to The Prayers of the People during our Sunday worship each week.