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.

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 canonical residence. When Erika is ordained to the priesthood and moves here to begin her ministry with us, she’ll change her canonical residency to the Diocese of Northern California. When Fr. Todd and Fr. Charlie moved here, they were canonically resident in the diocese of West Missouri and Utah, respectively, and changed their canonical residency to Northern California. Canonical residency is important because it determines under whose authority a priest or deacon serves. In one famous case not too long ago, a priest professed faith in Islam and an intention to remain a priest – both lovely things, to be sure, but generally understood by most adherents of both faiths to be mutually exclusive. Though the bishop of the diocese in which the priest lived and worked accepted this declaration of being “multifaith,” the priest in question had never changed canonical residency and was still under the authority of another bishop. Coincidentally, that bishop had been raised in a different faith and had converted to Christianity as an adult; unsurprisingly, that bishop held quite firm beliefs that a priest could not be a priest and profess another religion, too. That bishop deposed (the technical word for defrocked) the priest.

This week we’re going to have two “words of the week!” The second one is Juneteenth. Juneteenth celebrates the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation at the end of the Civil War, and is recognized as a holiday or day of special observance in forty-seven states. 

 A big thank you to my Trinity family for all your support and encouragement to me in my ordination process – one down, one to go!!! ~ Deacon Libby

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 fourteen through eighteen. We’ll be starting a new book in a few weeks, and it is suddenly popular and so sort of hard to find right now; you might want to go ahead and start looking. The book is Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility. It is out of stock at Amazon and most bookstores, but it is available on Kindle, and your local library may have an e-copy, and you can also check used book sites – if they don’t have it now, they probably will soon. One parishioner reports having ordered it on Amazon despite it being listed as temporarily out of stock, and they did receive a copy within a few weeks. 

The Young Adults Zoom is moving from Tuesdays at 8pm to Mondays at 7pm, beginning on Monday, June 22nd. The new Zoom meeting link is  here.

The Thrift Shop board has decided to temporarily close the Thrift Shop, probably until the spring or summer of 2021. We were going to have to close the Shop occasionally during construction anyway, and we were also concerned about the size of the building for social distancing. We looked at some other options, like renting commercial space, but weren’t sure those options were financially viable. And ultimately, the majority of our volunteers are over the age of 65, and several of those who aren’t live in households with folks who have vulnerable immune systems; many of the volunteers indicated that they aren’t ready to come back, and we support their decision. In case you hear otherwise, we’ll be clear: this closure is temporary, and once construction is over and we’re in a better place in this pandemic, we’ll be excited to reopen. In the meantime, we won’t be able to receive donations to the Thrift Shop because we have nowhere to store them. If you can keep them in your garage or attic until we reopen, great! But if you need them gone and donate them elsewhere, we understand. We thank you for caring so much about our little shop!

Hello all! The vestry met on Tuesday, June 16th, and we don't have many new plans to report, but we heard lots of updates on all that is happening while we've been out of the church buildings. As we are currently unable to use our buildings, the building committee has worked with the contractor to revise plans so that work will be done in both the Parish Hall & Church building at the same time, which will save us quite a large amount of money on our project. We are working on finalizing loan documents, and are hoping to begin construction on those buildings in August! Father Todd updated us that the staff of the Thrift Shop have elected to remain closed for the foreseeable future due to the pandemic, a decision which we support. Because the Thrift Shop brings in a large amount of money to help support our programs, we are looking closely at the budget; but as we've been able to save money in other areas, we aren't planning to make cuts to any programs at this point. ~ Shannon Dillon, Senior Warden

This week’s offertory, “Day by day,” is written by poet Karolina W. Sandell-Berg, sometimes called the “Fanny Crosby of Sweden.” Karolina had experienced incredible grief when only twenty-six years old: while she and her father were boating near Gothenburg, Sweden, he fell overboard and drowned. Out of that experience, Karolina wrote fourteen poems, published that same year. That group of poems included the hymn “Children of our heavenly Father,” another popular hymn sung by many denominations. Seven years after her father died, Karolina published her best-known hymn, “Day by day.” In this hymn, she speaks of trusting in God, finding rest in God’s presence, and asking for God’s strength to face each and every day. ~ Brett Judson, Director of Music

Though Pathways, the diocesan summer program for youth, won’t be a journey through northern California like it has been the past few years, it is still happening – via Zoom on Thursday evenings from 5-7pm. If you are in grades 7-12 and are interested in participating, you can register here. It has already started, but it isn’t too late to join.

For those of you using AmazonSmile to support Trinity Folsom or another non-profit, Smile is now available in the Amazon app on your phone. Open the app, choose settings on the main menu, tap AmazonSmile and follow the instructions on-screen. Thanks for those choosing to support us while they shop – every little bit helps, especially these days!

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.

Trinity Episcopal Church

 801 Figueroa Street

Folsom, CA 95630

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