8:00 am Sunday Worship in Advent

During the season of Advent the 8:00 am service will be Morning Prayer with

Lectio Divina instead of a sermon. Lectio Divina is a guided meditation in Holy Scripture that seeks to help us connect prayerfully to where we are in this moment.

Please contact Penny Pearson if you have any questions, or to let her know you are planning to participate (pennypearson@comcast.net, 860-243-0020).

Each year on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, after the 10 AM service, the Nave of Trinity Church is transformed from Advent Blue to a festal display of red, white, gold, and green. There are banners to be changed, wreathes and garlands to be hung, and much more. Many volunteer hands and hearts help this joyful work to go forward quickly.

Please plan on Sunday, the 18^th of December, to get your after-church coffee and refreshments and then join us in the Nave to prepare the space for the celebrations that will follow on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

You are invited to journey through Advent with The Womb of Advent by The Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones. For each day of Advent, there is a mantra, Scripture reading, questions for reflection, and a spiritual exercise.

*Beginning on Thursday December 1^st and each Thursday in Advent, you are invited to join a 7 am zoom call to share what has touched you and what has challenged you in your prayer and reflection over the past week. Additionally, you can join in discussion anytime you would like by going to trinityhartford.wordpress.com and adding a comment on the relevant post. In order to allow for relatively private and open sharing, the reflection posts will be password protected. To receive the password, please call Barbara at 860-527-8133 Ext. 204 or email her at office at trinityhartford dot org.

Thursday Morning Zoom Information*:

Meeting ID 880 7395 3968

Passcode 996527

Call in phone number 929-436-2866

Rev. D invites you to take a 2023 liturgical calendar home with you.

Why use a liturgical calendar?

It brings texture to our gathered worship. The object and definition of our worship never change, but observing the Christian year allows our corporate worship to reflect all the feelings and nuances of the gospel events.

Even if you have not grown up using the liturgical calendar it may be helpful to realize our faith is a continuation of the faith of believers throughout the centuries.

And you’ll recognize that the colors of the days correspond with the colors of the altar hangings!

For your contributions of cash or checks to appear on your 2022 year-end statement, please note the following. If you are dropping off a check, it must be received in the Trinity Church office by Thursday, December 29. Anything mailed must be postmarked by 12/31/2022 and any on-line contributions must be in by 12/31/2022.

REMINDER: Please make every attempt to turn in your 2023 Pledge Card before the year’s end.

A Taste of Trinity: Recipes from Around the World is a special cookbook, representing recipes from the many countries and American regions represented by the Trinity parish--the Caribbean Islands, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Germany, Great Britain, Guyana, India, Italy, the Middle East, Nigeria, the American South and Southwest, and New England.  A Taste of Trinity contains 140 recipes for breads, main dishes, vegetarian specialties, and desserts, many of them perfect for Christmas dinner.

If you would like to purchase a copy of A Taste of Trinity, please contact Barbara Roos in the Trinity Office or Anne Rapkin (860-521-5992, anne.rapkin at gmail.com).

$12 per copy or $10 each for three or more copies.  Please note that all sale proceeds are dedicated to Kateri Medical Mission, which provides basic medical and dental services to under-served people in towns and rural areas of Nigeria.

The Holy Land Giving Tree is again set up in Goodwin Hall (Coffee hour is back!).

The Outreach team will offer pictures of the needy children of the Diocese of Jerusalem, and festive olive wood ornaments for your own tree or as a gift. Your donations support the Ahli Hospital in Gaza where all people are in great need of medicine, electricity and everyday items. This is our international outreach to a place where our own religion began. Covid 19, as well as the usual unrest, has made this a very bad time for all who live in Gaza. Donations are sent to the hospital through the Diocese of Jerusalem. If you can’t make it to church, we ask that all checks be made out to AFEDJ (American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem) with Ahli Hospital in the memo and sent to the church office. All money is sent weekly, directly to the AFEDJ Center.

In addition there is an online Advent Calendar from AFEDJ with a dose of joy and hope in a daily email message available to anyone who signs up HERE (https://www.afedj.org/advent). “Each day offers a window into lives and ministries of today's Holy Land Christians ... through brief videos, interviews, photos, and prayers.” See what is happening in the Diocese of Jerusalem!

If you would like to contribute to the 2022 Christmas flowers and music in memory of a friend or family member, or as an offering of thanksgiving, please fill out the form here and send it to the parish office, along with your check, by Monday, December 19.  Checks, which may be for any amount, should be made payable to Trinity Church and earmarked “Christmas Memorials.” Names of those in whose memory contributions have been made will be listed in the Christmas Eve bulletins.

7:00 am                                (via Zoom)

7:00 pm                                (Church)

After the 10:00 am service   (Church)

5:00 pm                                Children and Family Service

9:30 pm                                 Choral Prelude

10:00 pm                               Christmas Eucharist (with use of incense)

10:00 am                               Christmas Morning Eucharist

Find upcoming events HERE .

All announcements should be submitted to Barbara Roos at office@trinityhartford.org by Wednesday 9am for publication that week. Announcements that are submitted late will be held until the following week’s edition.