This Sunday, February 27, 2022, at Trinity Lime Rock:
8 AM: Holy Eucharist (a small service in the church; there’s no music at this service)
9 AM: Sunday School for Young People (in the Guild Room, with Pastor Heidi.) Please let Pastor Heidi know if your young people will attend so she has supplies ready for them.
10:30 AM: Holy Eucharist (in the church; distancing and masking are required) This service is livestreamed.
–View the livestream HERE
–You can see the Bulletin if you CLICK HERE
–Here are the numbers (in order) of the hymns if you’d like to sing them at home: 129, 133, 643, 365
11:30 AM: Zoom coffee hour (In-person coffee hours remain suspended due to COVID)
4 PM: Misa en Espanol (In the church: Padre Juan Carter)
Normally we bring you our Rector’s monthly letter to the parish in our weekly Trinity Update newsletter. However, since our e-mail vendor has experienced a serious outage we are posting it here for your convenience.
Rector’s Letter for February
Rector’s Letter for February 2022
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ… knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us. Romans 5:1, 5
This week I’ve worked steadily on an annual diocesan task, the Parochial Report. Before the pandemic this was just a matter of loading in the numbers for the previous year; the number of parishioners and services, the numbers of our income and expenses, and listing the ministries which we have in our parish. But for the last two years the Parochial Report has also included narrative questions that must be answered with essays. The process has been made more challenging by making us have to think! God forbid! Here was the main question:
Looking toward the future, what changes do you hope to see in your faith community? What does your community need in order to bring about these changes?
What a pain in the neck. Now I have to figure out if we have any hope and what that hope is…and if we have hope, how we are going to accomplish the things we hope for. But isn’t this exactly what we should be doing as a parish? We’re not meant to only be concerned about the Covid numbers yesterday and today and hope they’re better tomorrow. We need to have a hope that is grounded in faith in Christ and faith in each other.
Well, below is my response to the question. I hope that this might spark something in you about our parish hopefulness. Please get involved! Write or call me if you have ideas, or just to talk so that we can hope together!
Looking back on the year just passed, 2021, we began the year continuing with our well-produced video services thanks to the expertise and imagination of Christine Gevert, our Music Director. Realizing that we were reaching current and former parishioners as well as newly interested parishioners, we hoped we could find a more sustainable method for bringing worship to people remotely. Mid-year (2021) we engaged a firm to do livestream production and posting for us. Our hope that this is a long-term solution that that will be viable for many years to come. We had been forced by the pandemic into the challenge of providing remote worship, but now we are glad about it!
We also hope that we can also resume a new normal of worship where social distancing and masking aren’t so much in the forefront of our concerns. We want to return to our customary community gatherings. We’ve had BBQs outside in the summer, and coffee hours after church when the disease took a bit of a hiatus in 2021. But we really hope to be able to share a meal together inside!
We look forward with hope to re-starting our popular choral concerts by Crescendo led by our Music Director. And we also hope to restart our successful community art shows led by Mary Anne Carley. God willing, we will do so in 2022.
We hope to forge new bonds of friendship with our Hispanic congregation in whatever way gives all of us together a sense of belonging and inclusiveness. Along with our Hispanic missioner, the Rev. John Carter, we want to not just do things for the Hispanic community but with them. As the pandemic becomes endemic, we hope for a closer relationship between our two congregations.
Mostly, we hope that Trinity Lime Rock will continue to be open to the Holy Spirit to guide us in finding new opportunities to serve God and the community in the future.
What will we need to bring about these things we hope for? We’ll need open hearts and willing spirits to perceive how we are called to be God’s people and do God’s work. We also need a little patience to not try to rush headlong into the next thing that suddenly appears on the horizon.
We look with hope towards what lies ahead. And we ask for God to give us strength and guidance.
This Sunday, February 20, 2022, at Trinity Lime Rock:
8 AM: Holy Eucharist (a small service in the church; there’s no music at this service)
9 AM: Sunday School for Young People (in the Guild Room, with Pastor Heidi.) Please let Pastor Heidi know if your young people will attend so she has supplies ready for them.
10:30 AM: Holy Eucharist (in the church; distancing and masking are required) This service is livestreamed.
–View the livestream HERE
–You can see the Bulletin if you CLICK HERE
–Here are the numbers (in order) of the hymns if you’d like to sing them at home: 126, 576, 136, 455
–The short liturgy for Commissioning the new Officers and Vestry is included in this service. Here it is
11:30 AM: Zoom coffee hour (In-person coffee hours remain suspended due to COVID)
Noon: Vestry meeting (Hybrid — in person in Guild Room and via Zoom)
This Sunday, February 13, 2022, at Trinity Lime Rock:
8 AM: Holy Eucharist (a small service in the church; there’s no music at this service)
9 AM: Sunday School for Young People (in the Guild Room, with Pastor Heidi.) Please let Pastor Heidi know if your young people will attend so she has supplies ready for them.
10:30 AM: Holy Eucharist (in the church; we’re resuming congregational singing this week, and a reminder that we resumed Communion in both parts last Sunday) This service is livestreamed.
–View the livestream HERE
–You can see the Bulletin if you CLICK HERE
–Here are the numbers (in order) of the hymns if you’d like to sing them at home: 586, 560, 424, 334, 657
11:30 AM: Zoom coffee hour (In-person coffee hours remain suspended due to COVID)
–Find the Zoom link here: Zoom links
This Sunday, February 6, 2022, at Trinity Lime Rock:
8 AM: Holy Eucharist (a small service in the church; there’s no music at this service)
9 AM: Sunday School for Young People (in the Guild Room, with Pastor Heidi.) Please let Pastor Heidi know if your young people will attend so she has supplies ready for them.
10:30 AM: Holy Eucharist (in the church; organ music only, no singing due to COVID) This service is livestreamed.
–View the livestream HERE
–You can see the Bulletin if you CLICK HERE
–Here are the numbers (in order) of the hymns if you’d like to sing them at home: 389, 661, 466, 758 (WLP), 556 “WLP” means that this hymn is found in the supplementary hymnal called “Wonder, Love, and Praise” (see note below)
11:30 AM: Zoom coffee hour (In-person coffee hours are suspended due to COVID)
–Find the Zoom link here: Zoom links
4 PM: Misa (postponed from last week) (A Holy Eucharist in Spanish, led by Padre Juan).
NOTE: People ask where they can get their own copy of “Wonder, Love, and Praise”. It’s available from Church Publishing, from various used booksellers, and, for around $17.00, from Amazon.
This Sunday, January 30, 2022, at Trinity Lime Rock:
8 AM: Holy Eucharist (a small service in the church; there’s no music at this service)
9 AM: Sunday School for Young People (in the Guild Room, with Pastor Heidi.) Please let Pastor Heidi know if your young people will attend so she has supplies ready for them.
10:30 AM: Holy Eucharist (in the church; organ music only, no singing due to COVID) This service is livestreamed.
–View the livestream HERE
–You can see the Bulletin if you CLICK HERE
–Here are the numbers (in order) of the hymns if you’d like to sing them at home: 518, 444, 397, 134, 429
11:30 AM: Zoom coffee hour (In-person coffee hours are suspended due to COVID)
–Find the Zoom link here: Zoom links
4 PM: NOTE the scheduled Misa has been postponed due to illness in Padre Juan’s family. It will be rescheduled in February.
Here’s information you’ll find helpful for worship on Sunday February 28, 2021 at Trinity Lime Rock! This is the Second Sunday of Lent. We are happy to welcome you, and we hope you’ll return again and again.
Our 9 AM Holy Eucharist
Due to the level of COVID-19 infections in our area, we are not currently holding in-person services at Trinity Lime Rock.
10:30 Spiritual Eucharist
View the 10:30 AM Spiritual Eucharist:
The Rev. Heidi Truax, our Rector, is the Celebrant and Preacher. Music and videography are by Christine Gevert
The Sunday Bulletin is available for viewing online. Simply CLICK HERE
If you are moved to donate, our Donations and Stewardship page offers a variety of ways you can do so, including PayPal. Simply click HERE to go to that page.
You can read Pastor Heidi’s sermon — and this week it’s illustrated!. Simply CLICK HERE
Past online Trinity Lime Rock services are also available in our YouTube channel. Simply CLICK HERE You may need to select “VIDEOS” at the top of the page to see some past services that were livestreamed. While you are there, please ‘SUBSCRIBE” to our YouTube channel — that way you will be automatically reminded of online services and won’t have to wait for your weekly e-mail alert. And don’t hesitate to “Like” the video as well!!
Thank you for worshiping with us at Trinity Lime Rock!!
Here’s information you’ll find helpful for worship on Sunday February 21, 2021 at Trinity Lime Rock! This is the First Sunday of Lent. We are happy to welcome you, and we hope you’ll return again and again.
Our 9 AM Holy Eucharist
Due to the level of COVID-19 infections in our area, we are not currently holding in-person services at Trinity Lime Rock.
10:30 Spiritual Eucharist
View the 10:30 AM Spiritual Eucharist:
The Rev. Heidi Truax, our Rector, is the Celebrant, and our own parishioner, the Rev. Marilyn Anderson, will preach. Music and videography are by Christine Gevert
The Sunday Bulletin is available for viewing online. Simply CLICK HERE
If you are moved to donate, our Donations and Stewardship page offers a variety of ways you can do so, including PayPal. Simply click HERE to go to that page.
You can read the Rev. Marilyn Anderson’s sermon. Simply CLICK HERE
For a direct link to the service on YouTube, CLICK HERE.
The links will remain live indefinitely.
Past online Trinity Lime Rock services are also available in our YouTube channel. Simply CLICK HERE You may need to select “VIDEOS” at the top of the page to see some past services that were livestreamed. While you are there, please ‘SUBSCRIBE” to our YouTube channel — that way you will be automatically reminded of online services and won’t have to wait for your weekly e-mail alert. And don’t hesitate to “Like” the video as well!!
Thank you for worshiping with us at Trinity Lime Rock!!
Here’s information you’ll find helpful for observance of Ash Wednesday with us at Trinity Lime Rock.
Our service will be online as we are not worshiping in person due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The service will begin at noon, and you will be able to find it here at that time or at any time afterward when you wish to participate in your own Ash Wednesday observance.
The Rev. Heidi Truax, our Rector, is the Celebrant. Music and videography are by Christine Gevert
The Bulletin, which includes Pastor Heidi’s homily, is available for viewing online. Simply CLICK HERE to view it.
If you are moved to donate, our Donations and Stewardship page offers a variety of ways you can do so, including PayPal. Simply click HERE to go to that page.
Packets of ashes will be available for pickup on the small table outside the doors to our parish house if you wish to drive over and pick one up.
You can view the service directly on YouTube HERE
The links will remain live indefinitely.
Past online Trinity Lime Rock services are also available in our YouTube channel. Simply CLICK HERE You may need to select “VIDEOS” at the top of the page to see some past services that were livestreamed. While you are there, please ‘SUBSCRIBE” to our YouTube channel — that way you will be automatically reminded of online services and won’t have to wait for your weekly e-mail alert. And don’t hesitate to “Like” the video as well!!
Thank you for worshiping with us at Trinity Lime Rock!!
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