Holy Trinity Rummage Sale!!!!!

Join us for a rummage sale on September 6th from 8am-4pm and September 7th from 8am-2pm. We will have furniture, dishes, toys and more for sale, and the proceeds will support our ongoing ministry on the west side of South Bend.

2019 Clean Sweep

Morning Activity

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It’s A Neighborhood Cleanup!
Saturday Morning, April 27, 2019 – 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM

• Meet-up (Rain or Shine) At Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 915 N. Olive Street 
• Arrive at 8:00 AM – Light Refreshments Served
• Volunteer – family, friends and neighbors.

Help us remove the trash scattered across our streets, yards and lots along Olive Street (from Lincoln Way to Washington St.) and along Fredrickson Street (from Olive Street to Bendix Drive – Dress comfortably – Provided (bags & gloves)

 

Afternoon Activity

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It’s A Community Party – Work Hard, Play Hard. Let’s Celebrate!

Free Food. Fun. Games and more. (Rain or Shine)!
This year the newly formed, Bendix Park Neighborhood is partnering with Near West Side Neighborhood Organization for a Celebratory

AFTER-NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP 2019 PARTY!

Where: Tippecanoe Place
Location: 620 W Washington Street, SB. IN. Time:Sat. Afternoon, April 27th at 1:00 PM

Please feel free to contact the event organizers via text: Marilyn Gachaw – 1 574 261 8878 – Bill Merryfield – 1 213 483 3232

DONATE TO OUR “GO FUND ME” ON FACEBOOK gofundme.com/clean-sweep-two-neighborhoods-one-goal

Changes to Soup After School

For the past three years, neighbors have gathered with us here at the Church of the Holy Trinity for Soup After School, an opportunity to sit down together for conversation over a free meal of soup, bread, a drink and something sweet. There is always something fun for the kids to do, and for us grown-ups it’s a safe, warm place to gather and get to know one another!

This year, we are staring a bit later—funny how folks don’t seem to want soup when it’s warm outside! We are also moving to the second and fourth Tuesdays rather than the first and third. In this way we hope to be more responsive to the needs of those who get paid on the 1st and 15th of the month, only to find that there are too may days, and not enough paycheck.

All are welcome, even those who don’t particularly need a good hot meal. Come just to sit and chat, or come to help out with cooking or serving soup, with supervising the children or with cleaning up. We offer you this time for a bit of peace (though not necessarily quiet!) in a busy and troubled world.

Dates For

Soup After School: 2017-18

• October 24
  
• November 14
  
• November 28
• December 12
• January 9
  
• January 23
  
• February 13
  
• February 27
  
• March 13
  
• March 27
• April 10
  
• April 24

While Soup After School is not, strictly speaking, a religious gathering, we do try to offer an activity each time that will engage the kids in the seasonal life of the church. After clearing away the dishes at 6pm, those wanting to join us for worship troop into the church for a 6:30pm Eucharist where we give thanks for the opportunity to seek and serve Christ in every human being. Our hope is that the transition from supper table to communion table will become yet another way in which we can offer our neighbors a taste of the life we share in Christ. Pray with us that, in that taste, both we and our neighbors will see that the Lord is good!

 

Upcoming at Holy Trinity

Because the next two weeks will be very busy at Holy Trinity, here is a handy list of reminders!

Tuesday, 10/25 at 7:15pm    A Faith for the Future

This class is both for those considering the possibility of formal confirmation/reception in the Episcopal Church and for those who would like to refresh their acquaintance with the ways in which Episcopalians understand their relationship with God through liturgy, the creeds and the bible. We will be using the book A Faith for the Future, by Jesse Zink, as a guide to our discussion, but you will not need a copy for this first class.

Wednesday, 10/26 at 7:15pm    Vestry Meeting (Rescheduled from 10/18)

Sunday, 10/30 at 11:15am     Pot Luck and Stewardship Celebration

Join us as we celebrate our successful stewardship for 2016 and cast a vision for the year to come. As we emerge from a period of transition and crisis, what are the different type of asset that each of us brings to our common life in Christ? How might we collaborate with our neighbors to help all of us recognize and employ our assets for the betterment of our community? What kinds of commitments can we make with each other so that we can walk forward with confidence in the year ahead?

Tuesday, 11/1 4-6pm     Soup After School and 6:30pm Eucharist for All Saints Day

Join us for a bowl of soup and fellowship with our neighbors in the late afternoon, and then stay afterwards for a celebration of All Saints Day. This “major feast” is one in which we celebrate the “great cloud of witnesses” who set an example for us of heroic life in faith and whose continual offering of prayer supports us even when we ourselves lack the strength to pray as we should. Because not every saint has been recognized as such and assigned a specific date in the church calendar, All Saints Day provides us with an opportunity to give thanks for those  unnamed saints who have played such an important role in the lives of those whose souls they have touched.

Wednesday, 11/2 6:30pm     Eucharist for All Souls Day

Not all of us are saints. Yet we believe in a God whose property is always to have mercy, and so we gather on the Feast of All Souls to remember before our God the names of both the faithful and the not so faithful departed who have played a meaningful part in our lives. After naming each person, we insert slips of paper with their written names into a cross designed for that purpose. In so doing, we also offer to God all the various and complicated memories and feelings we have about these folks, trusting that God is able to return our offering to us as a resurrection blessing. Join us for this celebration of the Body of Christ, in death as in life.

All of the departed named in the newsletter each month and in the prayers of the people will be remembered at our All Souls Day service. If you have other names to add, but will not be present on 11/2, please submit them by phone (please spell out the names!), email or in person by 11/1. If you will be present on 11/2, you will have an opportunity to write those names on the spot.

See you at church!

Terri+

Soup After School Starts Again!

This time next week, Soup After School will have returned to Holy Trinity from its summer vacation! From 4-6pm on the First and Third Tuesdays of each month, you can come by Holy Trinity to enjoy a free meal of soup, bread and a beverage while visiting with your neighbors. The Church of the Holy Trinity, along with our partners from the Cathedral of St. James host Soup After School from September through May, and all are welcome!

Soup After School Dates for the 2016-17 School Year:  Sept 6/20 • Oct 4/18 • Nov 1/15 • Dec 6/20 • Jan 3/17 • Feb 7/21 • Mar 7/21 • Apr 4/18 • May 2/16

“Where is Your Church?

Is it the one at the corner of Olive and Prast?”

The question took me by surprise, coming as it did from a staff member at the rehab. facility—way on the other side of town—where I was visiting one of our parishioners. The woman had been coming up the hallway down which Pat and I were making our slow and careful way. Fixing me with an intense stare, she crossed to our side of the hallway and presented her question. Swallowing my shock, I nodded towards Pat and stammered,

“Yes, we are at the Church of the Holy Trinity, at the corner of Olive and Prast.”

She nodded in satisfaction.

I thought so. I live just down the street from there, and I’ve seen you going around and blessing the neighborhood!

She then went on to tell me that the pastor of her neighborhood church was ill and asked me to pray for him. I took down his name and said I would both pray for him and put him on the parish prayer list.

From where she said she lived, I’m guessing that she saw us last September, when we went around on the feast of St. Michael and All Angels, blessing our neighbors and asking the angels to exercise God’s protection over them. In other words, even though it was seven months later and clear across town, this neighbor remembered us well enough to ask for our prayers.

Tomorrow is another opportunity to make such memories. It will be Tuesday in Rogation week, and for the third year in a row, we will be processing around, blessing the labor of our neighbors. This year’s focus will be on the corner of Bendix and Lincoln Way West. In order to preserve energy, we will meet up in the parking lot of Faith Apostolic Ministries (909 N Bendix Dr) rather than at Holy Trinity. After blessing our fellow “laborers in the harvest,” we will cross Bendix and bless our way up the east side of the street, veering east onto Ardmore and blessing all the workplaces on the corners before heading south again on the west side of Bendix. On our way back, we will swing west to bless the LaSalle Library and the other businesses of LaSalle Square before getting in our cars to go to Holy Trinity, where we will bless the convenience store across the street and our Unity Garden before heading inside for Eucharist.

Unless it’s raining, in which case we will bless all the same businesses from inside the church!

Our blessings are another way of answering the question “where is your church?”.  Jesus calls us to be salt and light to the world, starting with that part of the world that bumps up against us. To be the church in a neighborhood is to extend God’s peace to that neighborhood.

You never know what an impression that might make.

Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

Let us join our neighbors downtown:

‘‘The freedom songs are playing a strong and vital role in our struggle. They give the people new courage and a sense of unity. I think they keep alive a faith, a radiant hope, in the future, particularly in our most trying hours’’
—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Come and Enjoy the Music
Saturday, Jan. 16 at 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Main Library in downtown South Bend
304 South Main Street South Bend, IN

Sponsored by
Black Catholic Advisory Board Diocese of Ft. Wayne- South Bend

A little bit of this and that: Paintings by Janet Johnson

“A Little Bit of This and That,” an exhibit of paintings by Janet Johnson, will be on display at the GLBT Resource Center of Michiana (1522 Mishawaka Ave, South Bend, Indiana 46615) from October 25 – November 22. Johnson is a local artist, residing in Mishawaka, and you may have seen the exhibit of her icons on display at St. Mary’s College last fall. Permeated with spirituality, Johnson’s art is informed by her study of the Orthodox tradition of icon painting.  Johnson herself says in her artist’s statement:

Everything is a discipline; spending time with these images assists me in my spiritual journey. Whether it is Mother and Child, Jesus, or a saint, I have much to learn from them. With every brush stroke I am able to focus with a special intention for someone, a small prayer or mantra, or a kind of divine obedience to be quiet in the presence of the image on which I am working. . . . By looking into the face of an icon, a relationship may develop and will assist others on their spiritual journey.

Check out the exhibit opening on Sunday, October 25 from 3-5 pm with a talk by the artist and light refreshments, or visit during the Center’s open hours (W/Th/F 4-7pm) and Saturdays, 2-4 pm.