Newsletter 10 March 2024

Trinity Episcopal Church

139 Ocean Ave.

Cranston, RI 02905

(401) 941-4324

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Located in Historic Pawtuxet Village of Cranston, Rhode Island

office@trinitycranston.org

Pray for Peace Daily,

Together We Are Trinity

Contact info for the Reverend Susan Wrathall

You may email Mother Susan at rector@trinitycranston.org. For pastoral emergencies, the contact number is 401-384-0455. To make an appointment, you may either email or call the parish office at 401-941-4324.

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Weekly Events

SundayServices

8:00am and 10:00am

10:00am Live and online

Facebook livestream

Child Care provided for the 10am Service

Sunday School 9:45am in the Education Room

Choir Rehearsal between services and at 11:30am

Coffee Hour following the 8am and10am service in the Bay Room.

Living Stones MARCH24th at 9:05 in the Education room. Vance Morgan will send the topic.

Lenten Special Services

Witness at the Cross Book Group Thursday @ 9:00am

Stations of the Cross Fridays @ 6:00pm

Palm Sunday March 24

8:00 and 10:00am

Maunday Thursday March 28

7:00pm

Good Friday Noon & 7:00pm Liturgy; Stations of the Cross @6:00pm

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Monday Christian Meditation in the back of the church 6:00pm

Contact Bill Baddeley (wrbaddeley@gmail.com)

Monday AA Meeting, parish hall, 7:00 pm

Tuesday Morning Men's Group at 9am

Tuesday Knitting Group 10:00am-12:00pm

Pathways to Healing 1st Sat of month @ 10am

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Transition Update

Thank you to everyone who attended the parish meeting last Sunday. It was a great success with lots of input for the profile process. Canon Dena will be back with us on Sunday, April 28^th for a congregational conversation. There will be one service that day with the brunch and meeting to follow.

After the meeting on the 28^th, the profile team will begin their work in earnest. As soon as the profile is complete, hopefully, by around the end of May to the middle of June, Trinity’s vacancy will be posting to the online clergy forums and job vacancies to which our Diocese subscribes. Canon Dena also advertises our opening at all the clergy deployment meetings she attends.

Here is the profile team, as appointed by the vestry: Cathi Beattie, team lead; Donna Blue-Tobin; Rob Duncanson; Kelley Elderkin; Amy Umstadter.

As I mentioned last Sunday, Canon Dena is hard at work for us, as is the Bishop. They have our back. In the meantime, we couldn’t be in better hands with Mother Susan walking through this interim with us. Keep up the prayers. They will be answered.

Margaret Thomas

Senior Warden

Easter Flowers

If you like to dedicate Easter memorial flowers, here is the form to fill out and turn in. You may place it in the collection plate or hand it to one of the ushers. The deadline for your Easter flower dedication to make it into the Easter Sunday program is Sunday, March 24^th. Please try to get it in before that. The altar guild always ensures the altar and the church are beautifully decorated for Easter, and that is thanks to all of us who place Easter memorials. Thank you.

This month’s Pathways to Healing: Stations of the Cross Saturday at 10:00 am.

The Stations of the Cross is a powerful way to contemplate and enter into the mystery of Jesus’s gift of himself to us. As we journey around the church, a sort of walking meditation occurs—one that touches the senses. We feel the floor under our feet. We see the stations that depict the hours surrounding the crucifixion. We hear the words spoken to and by Jesus. We reach into our hearts to find our own responses. Getting out of our heads and into the immediacy of the service is one way to find healing.

Please contact Cathi Beattie (csbeattie@yahoo.com), Katie Mohn, (katemohn@hotmail.com) or Nancy St.Germain (nstgerma5971@gmail.com) if you have any questions.

Last Sunday's Sermon

By Mother Susan

What does it mean to say we are saved by the power of the cross? How does the hateful, cruel, violent cross of crucifixion show the power of God? These are questions we struggle with, and most often, as we journey toward Jerusalem during Lent. We know, somehow, we are saved, brought back into relationship with God through the cross but it’s hard to reconcile a loving, forgiving, almighty God with the violence of the cross.

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Pray for peace

Those whom we are remembering in prayer:

Becca, Cindy, Daniel, Billy, Bruce, Eric, Gabi, Corey, Henry, Sandy, Jenny, Manny, Tim, Barbara, Toufic, Peg, Janet, Richard R., Richard C., Paul, Mary

Living Stones Date Change

Due to a scheduling conflict on my part, the March Living Stones seminar is being moved from Sunday 3/17 to Sunday 3/24 between the services in the usual place. Sunday 3/24 is Palm Sunday; I have checked with Mother Susan and she has no problem with the change.

Dr. Vance G. Morgan

Social Outreach

Easter Food Cards!

We will again deliver Food Cards to local schools and House of Hope in lieu of meal boxes. Donations are being accepted in any amount to help local families in need. Please bring in your donations by Sunday, March 24th.

FOOD DONATIONS Always needed for the Ecumenical Food Closet

Food closet latest wish list:

-pasta

-canned fruit

-black beans

-corn

-vegetable beef soup

-chicken noodle soup

-ramen noodles

-cheerios or other cereals

Contact Sue Hinckley if you have any questions: suehboats@verizon.net

302-6553

Thank you,

Sue

Sunday ⬅️Bulletin link Service at 10am is live streamed on the Trinity Church facebook page: @trinitypawtuxet

Grocery Cards Available Every Sunday