Our Parish Year at Trinity Lime Rock


HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR... Click on any of the underlined blue words below to see more information about (and frequently photos from) these activities at Trinity lime rock. Not everything on this list happens every year, but we hope that this gives you a sense of just how wide our interests range!)
In January, sometimes we start with a pantomime of the Visitation of the Magi by our young people. Roughly a week later we celebrate the Feast of the Ephiphany. We hold our Annual Meeting in late January, after a potluck luncheon or a lunch prepared and served by the Episcopal Church Women. After the Clergy and Wardens give their reports, we elect new Officers and a new class of Vestry members. We transact additional business as necessary.
	We started 2003 off with an organ concert. We have lots of concerts and we're proud of our music!		In 2002 we had a series of Sunday afternoon concerts called "An Afternoon with the Bach family"	We hosted Girl Scout Sunday in 2003.			In 2003 we also held weekly Concerts for World Peace on Saturday mornings
	We mark the beginning of the Lenten Season with a Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner traditionally prepared by the Sunday School students and their advisors. Proceeds from the dinner go to Episcopal Relief and Development. Recently we've been preceding it with an ecumenical Choral Evensong. We continue the next day, on Wednesday, with the Ash Wednesday liturgy, and occasionally follow it with a macaroni and cheese dinner.
	During Lent, “Mothering Sunday” (sometimes known as “Refreshment Sunday”) features Simnel cakes during the coffee hour.						Also during Lent, we gather weekly and ecumenically with the other churches in the Northwest Corner for worship and lunch and for evening services and supper.
Following Palm Sunday, the Triduum Sacrum opens with the Maundy Thursday liturgy and a lamb supper, followed by the Good Friday Liturgy and the Easter Vigil on Easter Eve. We celebrate Easter Sunday with a Festival Eucharist, special coffee hour and an Easter egg hunt!					"Dinner and a Movie" is one popular activity you might find at Trinity almost any time of year.
Spring always brings the need for a Spring Cleanup.	Ascension Day (2003) we celebrated with our friends from the Salisbury Congregational Church and the Millerton Presbyterian Church, hosting an ecumenical Ascension Day Evensong with all three choirs. In 2004 we did it again!!	In early May, the racing season at our good neighbors across the street, Lime Rock Park, begins. We make it a point to pray for all the participants "across the street" during Prayers of the People at both services on major race weekends. Often people from Lime Rock Park come and worship with us. Our clergy often offer the invocation at the track on major race weekends.					And, by this time, Reid Field will certainly be ready for walking, jogging, and running.
We often send a delegation to the Bishops' 5K for Kids in West Hartford during May.		On Trinity Sunday we mark our name day with the Trinity Sunday Picnic.				But Trinity Sunday 2003 our Parish Picnic was MORE than that -- it was the annual Bishop's Visitation, it marked a visit by the Choir of the Millerton Presbyterian Church, it was the groundbreaking for our new addition -- and, of course, it was also our Parish Picnic.
	When June comes, Sunday School goes on holiday, and Trinity's innovative Summer Sports program begins and continues all Summer long.		Weddings are a tradition at Trinity			Throughout the year, whenever school vacations permit, our kids sing at Noble Horizons in Salisbury to supplement their Episcopal worship services.
	Our friends at the Berkshire Choral Festival frequently visit us on a Summer Sunday to sing.		Memorial Day weekend features the annual ECW Giant Tag Sale and Bake Sale; proceeds from this event go toward supporting ECW’s many commitments both within Trinity Church and in the larger community. And we welcome our friends from the New York Cycle Club!
			All year long, Trinity continues its Outreach efforts in our own community and elsewhere.				Often our Trinity Field is the site of community activities, like the Falls Village Benefit Horse Show.
		The annual Trinity Invitational Art Show takes place during the week before and including the Labor Day weekend. We are proud to have the reputation of being dependably one of the finest exhibitions in the Northwest Corner. Commissions from sales go in part toward Trinity’s outreach projects.
	September: Sunday School resumes. Confirmation Class starts soon afterward, if we're holding one that year.		We collect backbacks for needy kids each August			We're very fortunate that when the Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street has their annual retreat at the nearby Trinity Conference Center, they come visit us and sing at our house.
	On the Feast of St. Francis in early October, we bring our companion animals (including birds and reptiles!) to Trinity for the annual Blessing of the Animals during the 10:30 service. Our coffee hour that day features treats for everybody, including our pets!							The Robertson Alford lecture series focuses each year on a timely topic. In 2007 the series was entitled "Domestic Green"
	In 2007, we had our first Chocolate Sunday.	At some point during the year, one of the Diocesan Bishops usually comes to visit us.					We usually start the Advent Season with a Holiday Bazaar.
	By the time December starts, it's usually too cold to walk in Reid Field anymore -- so our Walk, Talk, Pray group moves to the indoor track at Hotchkiss for the winter months.		In 2001 we resurrected a time-honored Trinity tradition -- Caroling for our Lime Rock neighbors. We've also caroled for various local homes for the aged since then.				After the 10:30 service on 3rd or 4th Advent, we join the Flower Committee in Greening of the Church.
Christmas at Trinity really begins with the Holy Eucharist for 4th Advent, when we present our Young People's Christmas Pageant									Christmas Eve begins with a choir concert, followed by a Festal Eucharist, and a traditional Holy Eucharist later that night.
						On Boxing Day 2002 the Sunday School sang at Noble Horizons for a very appreciative group of people.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR...

Offering Companionship Along The Way

Trinity Episcopal Church, 484 Lime Rock Road, Lakeville, Connecticut!