Trinity Church

Announcements

• 12 Step Programs

  The following 12 Step groups rent our space and meet here. Meeting times are:

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  AA        Monday-Saturday @ noon
                Sundays @ 7:30 p.m.
                First Friday of the month @ 7:00 p.m. -                                     'Mindful Meditation'

  OA        Saturdays @ 9:00 a.m.

   

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• Cathedral in Bloom

  If you are in Albany between Feb 21-23, drop into the Cathedral there and enjoy the Cathedral in Bloom event.

  
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• Lenten Studies

  Lent 2020 
  
  Tuesday afternoons at 1:15

  and Thursday evenings at 8:00

  Starting Tuesday, 3 & Thursay 5 March for 7 weeks

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  Lent begins, Ash Wednesday, February 26.  This is traditionally a time to step back from the grind of daily life and take a moment for self-examination, repentance, and a return to the Lord. At Trinity we are taking this opportunity, in the lead-up to Holy Week and Easter, to study Christ's last teachings from the cross. This 7 week study examines each of the Last Seven Words of Christ and how even in death Jesus teaches us how to pick up our cross and follow Him. Each session is accompanied by a 15 minute teaching that connects the Scripture with our own present-day struggles.
  
  There is a very helpful devotional available for $14.99 but please do not let cost prevent you from participating.
  
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• What is Lent?
  

  Early Christians observed "a season of penitence and fasting" in preparation for the Paschal feast, or Pascha.The season now known as Lent (from an Old English word meaning "spring," the time of lengthening days) has a long history. Originally, in places where Pascha was celebrated on a Sunday, the Paschal feast followed a fast of up to two days. In the third century this fast was lengthened to six days. Eventually this fast became attached to, or overlapped, another fast of forty days, in imitation of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. The forty-day fast was especially important for converts to the faith who were preparing for baptism, and for those guilty of notorious sins who were being restored to the Christian assembly. In the western church the forty days of Lent extend from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, omitting Sundays. The last three days of Lent are the sacred Triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Today Lent has reacquired its significance as the final preparation of adult candidates for baptism. Joining with them, all Christians are invited "to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word"

  For more detailed explanations of Episcopalian traditions surrounding Lent, check out our Info Center:
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• Community Supper

  

  It's 4th Thursday, so it must be Community Supper!

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  February 27, 5:00 p.m.
  Trinity Parish Hall