A Celtic Christmas Celebration
December 11, 2021 7pm
Tickets are available from our website at
People are also welcome to purchase tickets at the door. As with other years, the profits will be donated to Phoenix Center.
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Blue Christmas Service
A Service of Remembrance and Hope
Not feeling the spirit of Christmas cheer? You are not alone! Many are experiencing challenging times, whether from illness, joblessness, loss, or loneliness. Right now, all of us are suffering from the terrible effects of a prolonged pandemic. Don’t we all know what it is like to feel melancholy in the midst of holiday celebrations?
Trinity’s annual Blue Christmas Service will be held on Wednesday, December 15th, at 5pm. This beautiful and comforting service is reflective, accepts where we really are, and holds out healing and hope. You will find this service meaningful and peaceful, no matter where you are this Advent season.
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Advent Online Meditations
This online version is wonderful way to share these offerings with your friends and family.
Contributors for this Week Two of Advent represent the seminary well: an array of alumni, faculty, and staff. Click below for each day, or click here to find the full list of meditations for this Advent season. I invite you to share them with friends and family.
Please pray for the world this Advent season, and pray that we at Seminary of the Southwest might continue to be equipped and supported by the Spirit to fulfill our part in God's healing mission.
Wishing you and yours a blessed Advent and joyous Christmas.
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Busted Halo
Watch this new two minute video about Advent. It is a creative, fun, and a sound picture of the meaning of Advent. Be sure to listen for the explanation of the rose candle that we will light this Sunday on the Advent wreath.
"Busted Halo- faith shared joyfully”
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Welcome New Members
We welcomed the Houle family as new members of Trinity last Sunday. Tony, Hillary, and Cleo Houle moved recently from Houston to join their family here in the Hill Country, and they immediately felt at home at Trinity. Hillary has built a career teaching English and Creative Writing. She now privately tutors students online and in-person. Tony, also in education, served as the Head of Strategic Imperatives for an independent school after teaching for many years and dedicating his time and service to the US Navy Reserve. He has now transitioned to life in residential real estate. Cleo was blessed to ride to work with Daddy for the past 9 years, attending school at Duchesne and has truly enjoyed the relaxed pace of lake life. The Houles live in Horseshoe Bay, and look forward to getting to know each of you even better.
We also were happy to welcome Suzanne Brooks as a new member with her husband, Dub, who is Hillary’s father. Dub and Suzanne Brooks are life-long educators that retired to the Hill Country after many years in Houston, TX. While they have lived all over the Gulf Coast, the serene waters of Lake LBJ summoned them to Horseshoe Bay. This dynamic duo loves choral music, good jokes, and great coffee. And while they share lots of hearty laughs with their children and grandchildren, they are most entertained by their semi-obnoxious fur-babies, Camilla, Charlie, and Sage. Dub and Suzanne are thrilled to be ringing in the holiday season with us at Trinity and making us their new church home.
Be among us as ones who will seek to serve God and God’s people. May this be a place of belonging where you can sink deep roots and grow strong in faith and in the love of Jesus. Welcome to our church family!
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Please donate gift cards for the families served by the HIGHLAND LAKES FAMILY CRISIS CENTER
Highland Lakes Family Crisis Center (HLFCC) provides critical services and advocates for women, children, men, and families. They provide secure shelter for victims in danger, operate a 24-hour crisis hotline, as well as provide counseling and safety planning for survivors.
PLEASE DONATE A $25 GIFT CARD(S) FROM WALMART, HEB OR VISA, AND PLACE THEM IN THE DONATION BOX ON THE HIGHLAND LAKES FAMILY CRISIS CENTER POSTER IN THE NARTHEX. Thank you!
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Birthdays
12/13/21. . . . Lucia Gurley
12/14/21 . . . .Lilly Dean
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Adult Christian Education
This Sunday, Wilson Campbell and Stephen Kennedy will lead a class on Dante’s “Divine Comedy” whose themes of faith, hope, and love is timely during our journey through Advent. Some have said that no words can describe the importance of this work, a greatness both of theme and artistry. The story is an allegory representing the soul’s journey from spiritual depths to spiritual heights. As humankind exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewords or the punishments of justice, it experiences “Inferno’ or hell, “Purgatorio” or purgatory, and “Paradiso” or heaven, a vision of a world of beauty, light, and song.
Please join us in person at 9:15am on via zoom with the link HERE
12-19 Christmas Traditions by Pam Link
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Adult Christian Education Recordings
Did you know that most of our Sunday morning Christian Education classes are recorded and available for viewing on our Youtube page? Click here to view classes on Chartres Cathedral, the Gospel of Luke, and more.
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Order Poinsettias for Christmas
Donating a poinsettia for the 2021 Christmas altar décor is a wonderful way to honor loved ones. The red poinsettias will be in six-inch pots and cost $9.00 each. The sign-up sheet will be in the narthex. Be sure and write on the flower chart who your donation is in thanksgiving for or a memorial to, and the names will appear in the Christmas service bulletins. You may make checks payable to Trinity Episcopal Church with “poinsettia” in the memo line. Drop your check in the collection plate or turn it in at the office. We encourage donors to pick up the plants after the church services on Sunday, December 26th, 2021.
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A Big Thanks
to the Ministry and Outreach Commission for organizing another wonderful Giving Fair, as well as to the representatives of these organizations who gave so generously of their time to be with us on a Sunday morning and tell us of the great work they are doing to meet need in our community. If you missed their inspiring presentations on Sunday morning, you can view the recorded video on our Youtube page HERE.
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Children’s Chapel
Parents or Grandparents, please plan to bring your children directly to the Children’s Chapel before the 10:30am service. They will be brought back to you at the Peace after getting to worship with age-appropriate prayers complete with hand motions and after hearing a Bible story. The Chapel leaders are looking forward to teaching your kids in person once again. Masks will be provided for any who are unvaccinated as we request that masks be worn to protect the children.
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"This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
There’d have been no room for the child."
—Madeline L’engle
Art: Mariotto Albertinelli, 1503: "Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth”
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Burnet County Hunger Alliance Feeding Children During Their Christmas Break
The Burnet County Hunger Alliance’s (BCHA) historically helps St. Peter’s Blessings by providing an extra bag of food for Marble Falls ISD students during the Christmas two-week break. Food pantries and community kitchens are often closed for a week between Christmas and New Year’s Day and the Hunger Alliance identified the opportunity to help feed children. Dennis Reed, a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, spoke at the November meeting of the Alliance to explain the church volunteers deliver food to school counselors every Thursday in plastic bags for 200 children. School children picked up the food on Friday to take home.
The child-friendly food is donated for students and not their family. The children are frequently left at home while their parents work and the food allows them to prepare easy meals. HEB is no longer allowing the church to order food because of their supply chain issues. St. Peter’s Blessings’ volunteers order food on-line and use several sources to receive 200 of the same food-product. Volunteers are creative and may order different kinds of foods than ordered in the past. Trinity Episcopal Church and Fellowship Baptist Church funding allows the Hunger Alliance to donate $5 per child and the coalition’s volunteers bag the food for the two-week break.
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Save the Date
Dec. 15 . . . Blue Christmas - 5pm
Dec. 24 . . . Christmas Eve Services -
....................3pm, 5pm and 8pm
Dec. 25 . . . .Christmas Day Service 10am
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On-line Worship
Each Sunday, we livestream the 10:30am service of Holy Eucharist.
It will be available on Trinity’s Youtube page beginning at 10:20. Anytime after 10:20am click on the above YouTube link to go to Trinity’s YouTube channel. There you will see “ Live” or “Live Now” and click on it to join the service. If it is not there, refresh the page after a couple of minutes.
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Sunday Schedule
8:30am . . . . Holy Eucharist in Person
9:15am . . . . Adult Christian Education
10:30am . . . Childrens Chapel
10:30am . . . Holy Eucharist in Person
For the most up-to-date worship guidelines, please visit our website: LINK.
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