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 ordinary time. Though the times in which we are living are extraordinary, the liturgical season is ordinary

Deacons serve wherever the bishop sends them, and the usual practice is for transitional deacons like Libby to be sent to another congregation until they are ordained a priest, for a minimum of six months and often up to a year. The bishop is sending Libby to Trinity Cathedral in midtown Sacramento, beginning on June 30th. No need to say goodbye to her, though – her husband Dan is still a parishioner here, and we hope Libby will rejoin us after her ordination to the priesthood. ~ Fr. Todd+

Deacon Erika is, God willing, on a plane this Friday morning heading back to the United States! As we’re writing this, we’re praying that her flight is allowed to leave Ghana, and praying for safe travels for her. She’ll head home to Indiana first, where her ordination to the priesthood, which was supposed to be this Saturday, has been rescheduled for July 8th. Then she will be heading to California on July 13th, and after a short quarantine, we hope to have her in the church before the end of July. 

Normally we would schedule all sorts of things to welcome her to Trinity Folsom, but we won’t be able to do that right now. She will soon be joining us online and you’ll have a chance to meet her then. And if you would like to help welcome her to California and get settled in her new home, gift cards for Target and IKEA would be particularly welcome; she and MJ are coming here with mostly just clothes and books, and while we’ve been able to mostly furnish their apartment with donations from parishioners, you know there are always little things you need once you’re settling in. If you would like to give them a gift card, send it to the church office (801 Figueroa, Folsom 95630) and we will get them to her.

Several folks have asked how we will address Erika. Right now she’s a deacon, and there’s not a firm tradition of forms of address for deacons. Often we say Deacon So-And-So, but you can tell from this e-mail that my own usage of that is not consistent. Once she is ordained to the priesthood, I will call her Mother Erika; some folks don’t like this form of address, but it is the most typical in our tradition. My own rule is that you call me Fr. Todd until you can drive yourself to church, and then you are welcome to call me by my Christian name. I prefer Fr. Todd or Todd; folks who wish to be respectful and are particularly observant of traditions of grammar and etiquette call me Fr. Bruce or Mr. Bruce, which is fine; folks uncomfortable with Father call me Reverend Todd or Reverend Bruce, which is also fine; and some folks call me Pastor Todd, which I really dislike (hey, we’re all allowed a few idiosyncrasies, right?). The best thing to do, if you don’t know, is to ask – and it’s a great way to start a conversation! ~ Fr. Todd+ 

We are getting our first permit! The permit for the new Children’s Building will be issued in the next few days, and our contractor is planning on beginning the initial demolition work in the interior of the building next week. We’ll post updates and pics on our Facebook page (you don’t have to have a Facebook account to access it, just go to www.facebook.com/trinityfolsom). Here we go!

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 nineteen through twenty-two. We’ll be starting a new book soon, probably on July 15th, 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. 

No matter how school is conducted this fall, children will still need supplies, and there are more families than ever who need a little help acquiring them. Our friends at Twin Lakes Food Bank will be distributing supplies to children in need on August 10th, and need donations of supplies by July 24th. If you would like to help, you can contribute supplies in a few different ways:

Twin Lakes Food Bank has given us a supply wish list: backpacks (for all ages), glue sticks, pencil pouches, 24-pack crayons, 24-pack colored pencils, ten-pack children’s markers, safety scissors, highlighters, one-subject spiral notebooks, three-subject spiral notebooks (college rule), pocket folders, 3x5 index cards, large pink erasers, mechanical pencils, and pencils. 

This week’s prelude is “Praeludium circulare,” the first movement from Symphony 2, Op. 13, by Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937). Widor, organ professor at the Conservatoire de Paris and organist for sixty-four years at St. Sulpice Church in Paris, one of the premier organ positions in the world, was the first person to name an organ piece “Symphony.” He would write ten symphonies for the organ; the fifth contains his best-known work, the famous “ Toccata”. One of the similarities between orchestral and organ symphonies is the common method of alternating slow and fast movements; in addition, Widor draws out the orchestral colors from the organ, creating an identifiably romantic and rich sound. Dennis Keene says that this movement is titled “circulare” because the melody returns again and again. Be sure to tune into the webcast around 8:50 am on Sunday morning to hear this lovely work. ~ Brett Judson, Director of Music

Parishioner Sara Naramore (daughter of Sharon & Ken Hansen) was married to Chad Baltozer this past weekend in Washington DC. Sara and Chad had planned to be married here, but due to the pandemic, Chad is unable to leave a fifty-mile radius from where he is stationed in Virginia. Fr. Todd’s best friend and dormmate, the Rev’d Lisa Saunders Ahuja, is the priest at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in Dupont Circle (that’s Mother Lisa in the picture, wearing a mask in the church lobby) and was happy to step in and get the two of them married. Congratulations to Sara and Chad, and don’t forget, whenever you need a priest, wherever you go, ask the parish clergy and we probably know someone who can help you out! 

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!

If you’re interested in reading more to learn about race and racism, click here for a short reading list to get ideas of where to begin. 

Trinity Episcopal Church

 801 Figueroa Street

Folsom, CA 95630

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