Weekly eVoice: What's Happening at Trinity Church

9 May 2021

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

~~Collect for the Sixth Sunday of Easter

Worship With Us at Trinity Church

Sunday, May 9: Sixth Sunday of Easter

Holy Eucharist in the Memorial Garden, 8 AM

with Communion in one kind (bread only)

Rev. D. Presiding and Preaching

Holy Eucharist at 10 AM by YouTube

Rev. D. Presiding and Preaching

Holy Eucharist at 10 AM Livestreamed on YouTube followed by Greeting Time, and Coffee Hour on Zoom

Trinity YouTube

As the Postlude ends, all are invited to log onto zoom for a time of large group greeting followed by a short small group coffee hour, or for Adult Christian Formation when scheduled.

For Coffee Hour and Adult Forum click here.

Parking lot drive-through Communion distribution (bread only) from the elements consecrated at the 10am service. 11:30pm – 12:30pm

Thursday, May 13

Noon Prayer Via Zoom, Live at 12 PM:

Jon Widing Officiating

This is a Standing Meeting.

The log-in and password will remain the same each week.

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Password: 323842

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A Mother's Day Blessing from Trinity Church:

(Created by George Chien and Jackson Merrill, May 2020.)

Music: "The Harmonious Blacksmith" -- G F Handel

ADULT CHRISTIAN FORMATION

Mark your calendars for the next two May Adult Christian Formation sessions following the Sunday 10:00 A.M. YouTube service.

May 16 Calling God ‘Father’

Anne Rapkin will discuss will what it means to address God with the male title of “Father”, when biblical writers envisioned God as a female as well.

“How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”

Lk. 13:34.

This mosaic is found on the altar at a small church, called Dominus Flevit, on the western slope of the Mount of Olives; it's a very old church, dating back to the 500s or so.

By Anton 17 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28575619

May 23 College Panel for Youth Sunday

A Message from Rev. D.

See you in person on June 6^th!

On Sunday June 6^th we will begin to have the 10am service in person. As an extra bonus, June 6^th is also the Annual meeting and so we will have extra time together. In order to continue to seek the health of all in our community, masks are required to be worn and we will maintain social distance with no physical contact with someone not in your household. There may be some in our community who have been vaccinated and are okay with hugs, but there are others who, vaccinated or not, are not comfortable with hugs. In order to create an atmosphere of welcome regardless of vaccination status and/or comfort with hugs, I am asking everyone to do their part in maintaining social distance when we gather. Additionally, given the 2 out of 3 rule, beginning this Sunday when the weather allows for the 8am service to be outside, people will be allowed to remove their masks once they are in their seat. (The two out of three rule, depicted in the graphic below, says that activity with those outside of your household should have 2 of the 3 measures of health protection (mask, distance, outdoors) in place.

~D+

The Voice Articles for June, July, & August – Deadline – May 14

Is your parish group planning an event during June, July & August? Let everyone at Trinity know all about it by submitting an article for the next issue of The Voice. The deadline is Friday, May 14, at 5:00 p.m. for articles submitted via email to voice@trinityhartford.org.

Articles submitted in hard copy form should be turned in to the Parish Office by 3:00 p.m. on Thursday May 13, when the Office closes for the weekend.

Note: When submitting an article, please be sure to include a title in the subject line.

Mark Your Calendar:

Trinity Church Annual Meeting – June 6

Reminder for all Committee and Team Leaders:

Annual Reports are due to the office Monday, May 17.

Submit reports to your Quadrant Leader in advance of the deadline for proofing before submission to the church office.

The report will be available starting Sunday, May 30 electronically,

or you may pick up a hard-copy by making an appointment with the office.

Kodály's Missa Brevis: A Moment of Remembrance

The churches of Trinity Episcopal, Emanuel Lutheran, and St. John's Episcopal are joining forces to perform Zoltán Kodály's masterwork for organ and choir, the Missa Brevis. Originally written in 1942 as a strictly organ work, Kodály (1882-1967) reworked it into a choral mass in 1945 while sheltering in the basement of the Budapest Opera House, during the height of the Allied bombing. The work was premiered in the cloakroom of the opera house, as it was one of the only rooms still standing during the bombings. The premiere was performed by members of the skeletal opera company, for each other, as gunfire continued raging outside.

Our collaborative production of this will include graduating choristers of the Choir School, section leaders, and hired vocal professionals, recorded by an audio engineer. The mass will be filmed in the sanctuary of Trinity Episcopal Church, with 20 musicians masked and distanced. The resulting concert video will be premiered during the last weekend of May, on a soon-to-be-determined date. All three music directors (Michelle Horsley, Scott Lamlein, and Jonathan Reuning-Scherer) will take turns conducting and playing. This concert is partially sponsored by the Jolidon Fund of the Greater Hartford Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

As we hopefully move past this COVID-19 era, we have decided to create a musical offering to recognize the global scale of loss during the pandemic and we have chosen this work as we believe in what it represents. The circumstances of the Kodály Missa Brevis speak to triumph and hope in the midst of strife and devastating isolation. We are lifting this up in response, as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Zoltán Kodály

eVoice Deadline

Beginning with the 7 May edition of the eVoice, all announcements should be submitted to George at chienga@sbcglobal.net by Thursday 9am for publication that week. Announcements that are submitted late will be held until the following week’s edition.

End-of-Year Choir School Concert

Sunday, May 30th at 2PM

Parking Lot of Emanuel Lutheran Church

311 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT

Free parking available in the state lot at the southwest corner of Capital Ave and Oak St.

If able, please bring your own chair/blanket

Join us as we celebrate the end of a most unusual 2020-2021 Choir School season! This outdoor event will be a presentation of some of the pieces we’ve learned during our online and in-person rehearsals. Works will include favorites from our Anglican repertoire, as well as selections from Caribbean, South African, Spiritual, American Folk, and modern choral traditions. Guest singers from the Emanuel Lutheran Church community will join us on a couple songs and our graduating choristers will also be formally recognized. Some chairs will be provided, but attendees are kindly asked to bring their own chairs/blankets, if able, and to observe the socially-distant markers on the ground. Masks are required. Parking is available for free at a lot on the southwest corner of Capitol Ave and Oak St, one block away from the performance location. There is no cost for admission and no reservation is required. Join us to celebrate these wonderful choristers!

Women Together

Women Together continues a 6-week study of The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels, “an intellectually elegant, concise study” evoking the world of early Christianity.

WT meets weekly on Tuesdays from 2:00-3:15 pm, bringing together women from Trinity, St. John’s, St. Monica’s, and friends. This series will be the last of the program year.

If you’d like a link for these Zoom meetings, please contact Enid Oberholtzer (tomenidjas@aol.com) or Heather Kramer (heatherjk1989@gmail.com)

A/V Guild

After taking a step back from recruitment to continue to refine the system, we are once again seeking volunteers to be a part of the A/V Guild. Don’t worry about your level of technical skill. If you can press a button on a remote control, then there’s a place for you on the team. If you would like more information, would like to volunteer, or would like to come watch the a/v guild at work on a Sunday to get a sense of what they do, please be in touch with Jake Troiano or Casey Rosseau.

Please email office@trinityhartford.org or call 860-527-8133 ext. 204 and Barbara Roos will provide contact information for Casey and Jake.

A Weekend in the Memorial Garden:

Singing in the Garden 1 May and Eucharist in the Garden 2 May

Heads Up! Hartford 2021 Summer Camp!

Heads Up Hartford has announced that it will hold a hybrid version of camp this year from June 21-27.

Campers are welcome to participate in both in-person and virtual programming, or select only virtual programs to attend.

Camper registration information can be found here on the HUH website: https://headsuphartford.org/camp-info#aee1861e-9373-4299-8103-cce7189d3cf8. The deadline to register is June 1st.

HUH is a faith-based camp uniting urban and suburban youth to improve our communities and develop as leaders. Youth who have completed 8th-12th grade are eligible to attend. Trinity's young people have participated in HUH for many years and found it to be worthwhile and fun! For more information, contact Linda MacGougan (macgougans@gmail.com; 860-561-1588), Trinity's liaison with HUH.