Trinity Episcopal Church

Sharing this offering from our friends at Hospice of Santa Barbara.

Trinity is participating in the Solstice planet installation! Solstice Artist Kenny Galindo will be displaying the Solar System - with each planet scaled down in size and spinning at an accurate speed. Each planet will be distanced from each other according to a scaled down version of our solar system. You might even find the artist Kenny, or members of the SBCC Astronomy Club hanging out by a planet to explain to you all the wonders each planet has to offer.

Please read today's Letter from the Rector regarding changes to Sunday worship at Trinity. We look forward to welcoming you at our Sunday services! No reservations required! https://conta.cc/3gJPY3E #feedinghungryhearts #episcopal

Good news from the Bishop's office! "I believe it is now prudent to say that all our missions and parishes may adopt the CDC guidelines tomorrow. Under CDC guidelines, fully vaccinated people can resume most of their ordinary activities, including virtually all those associated with worship, fellowship, meetings, teaching, and service at our churches. That means the vaccinated can stop wearing masks and social distancing."... Stay tuned for more communication on how things will change this Sunday for Trinity Santa Barbara. #episcopal #FeedingHungryHearts https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Health-and-Strength-In-

We enter Lent today with Ash Wednesday. We will learn about the saints following Forward Movement's Lent Madness. Join us here on Facebook! "It is winter in Narnia," said Mr. Tumnus, "and has been for ever so long...always winter, but never Christmas." In the imaginative writing of Golden Halo 2011 winner C. S. Lewis, Narnia was in the grip of what seemed like an endlessly grim winter. It's not hard for us to grasp this image as the United States is largely covered with sno...w and filled with shivering people in the midst of a pandemic. flowers in snow In the church, one would be forgiven for thinking it's always Lent and never Easter. Last year's Lent started pretty normally, but most churches closed to in-person worship before Holy Week. We started a Lenten journey that it may well seem we never finished. In the last year, we've been worn down by a pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Our normal patterns and beloved customs are disrupted. One may wonder if we're in the grip of an endlessly grim Lent as we start anew our Lenten journey. After all, the previous Lent never seems to have ended. No matter how we celebrate Easter, or even if we skip it entirely, nothing can change the fact that the tomb was empty one morning long ago in ancient Jerusalem. We can't be sure what this year's Easter will look like. But we can be sure that Christians around the world will find ways to celebrate the triumph of Jesus Christ over evil, of love over sin, of life over death. Jesus frees us from the grip of sin, and he certainly frees us from the grip of an endlessly grim Lenten journey. At Lent Madness, we are fond of reminding people that Lent is not about misery, though it may sometimes be about fasting and self-denial. During the holy season of Lent, we "prepare with joy for the Paschal feast" as we turn our hearts and our lives toward Jesus. In that way, even in Lent, we are always suffused with joy. This Ash Wednesday will be unlike any other. You may not even receive ashes. Fortunately, the real centerpiece of Ash Wednesday -- despite the name -- is not the mark of our mortality, but the invitation to a holy Lent, the litany of penitence, and the recitation of Psalm 51. There are three verses of Psalm 51 that stand out to us as important this year as we contemplate the start of another Lenten journey. Create in me a clean heart, O God, * and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence * and take not your holy Spirit from me. Give me the joy of your saving help again * and sustain me with your bountiful Spirit. Today we step back from the usual silliness of Lent Madness to invite you to a holy Lent. Let us all pray that we might know the joy of God's saving help and the power of God's bountiful Spirit. By God's mighty grace, there is always Resurrection. Wishing you a blessed Lenten journey, Tim+ Scott+ https://www.lentmadness.org/about/ #LentMadness

Lent begins tomorrow with Ash Wednesday. Trinity will be holding two services. 12:30pm outdoors and 6:30pm online. Find all the information you need in today’s edition of Trinity in Diaspora. #feedinghungryhearts #Episcopal #wearamask https://conta.cc/37lg20Y

Trinity was delighted to welcome Bishop Diane Bruce as our guest preacher on Transfiguration Sunday. #feedinghungryhearts #episcopal https://vimeo.com/512724543

All you need for our Sunday worship offerings and more... is right here in the Friday Trinity Notes.

Thank you Jan Richardson for your Blessing for Epiphany: For Those Who Have Far to Travel If you could see the journey whole, you might never undertake it, might never dare the first step that propels you from the place you have known toward the place you know not.... Call it one of the mercies of the road: that we see it only by stages as it opens before us, as it comes into our keeping, step by single step. There is nothing for it but to go, and by our going take the vows the pilgrim takes: to be faithful to the next step; to rely on more than the map; to heed the signposts of intuition and dream; to follow the star that only you will recognize; to keep an open eye for the wonders that attend the path; to press on beyond distractions, beyond fatigue, beyond what would tempt you from the way. There are vows that only you will know: the secret promises for your particular path and the new ones you will need to make when the road is revealed by turns you could not have foreseen. Keep them, break them, make them again; each promise becomes part of the path, each choice creates the road that will take you to the place where at last you will kneel to offer the gift most needed the gift that only you can give before turning to go home by another way. from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons Image: The Wise Ones Jan Richardson #janrichardsonstudio https://conta.cc/2XepY75

Eucharist on the Labyrinth, today! 1, 2 & 3pm. Join us outdoors for Sunday worship. The service comprises of the Peace, the Eucharistic Prayer, the Lord’s Prayer, Communion, the Post-Communion Prayer, Final Blessing, and the Dismissal.

Join us online at 10:00 am on January 3 for the Liturgy of the Word, celebrating the Second Sunday After Christmas. Let us pray. God of the refugees, sharing the exile road with all who flee the violence that enslaves and kills: as Mary and Joseph and Jesus sought asylum in a foreign land, make us ready to welcome the refugees and all others seeking solace and protection, and receive from them a new language of life and hope; through... Jesus Christ, who welcomes us all. Amen. https://zoom.us/j/94417752678 Webinar ID: 944 1775 2678; Passcode: 334907 View the printed liturgy: https://files.constantcontact.com//d8898368-a284-48a0-8829

Merry Christmas! Join us for Lessons and Carols The First Sunday After Christmas December 27, 2020, 10am PST https://zoom.us/j/93134484360... Webinar ID: 931 3448 4360 Passcode: 010876 View the printed liturgy: https://files.constantcontact.com//b7b4d1dd-4fbe-4c5a-a0da (There will be no Eucharist on the Labyrinth this Sunday.) #episcopalchurch #feedinghungryhearts photo: Christmas Eve 2019