When you join us for worship, you will be greeted and given a bulletin that will help guide you through the order of the service. Episcopal services are based on The Book of Common Prayer which will be the red book in your pew.
During worship, you will be able to follow along from the bulletin with the corresponding page numbers in The Book of Common Prayer. There will be several opportunities where you can enjoy or join in singing hymns. Music and words for the hymns are found in the blue hymnal in the pew.
Episcopal worship is centered around Communion, also known as The Holy Eucharist. All are invited to come forward and receive the bread and wine during communion, or if you would prefer you can come forward to receive a blessing by the priest or simply remain seated.
Services start at 10:00am on Sundays. Service of Holy Eucharist typically lasts about an hour. Service of Morning Prayer is usually half an hour.
After service, please join us for refreshments and fellowship downstairs in Morrill Hall. A chairlift is available if needed.
If you would like more information about the Episcopal Church or how to join or get involved please see a church member or send an email to secretary@trinityware.org.
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Alleluia, He is Risen!
Our journey through the darkness of Lent is over. Last Sunday, we walked with Jesus as he entered Jerusalem to cries of Hosanna and the waving of palms. We journeyed through Holy Week to Maundy Thursday where Jesus, as he washes the feet of his friends, leaves the greatest commandent- that we love another. "And this is how they will know you are my followers, because you love one another". Arriving at Good Friday, we bear witness to the trial before Pilate, the cries to "crucify him" and Jesus's declaration that it is finished.
There are two songs that, for me, are the most meaningful to get me from Good Friday to Easter day. The first is Hymn #172,
The service of Jesus's last seven words transports us there. Leaving the dark and quiet sanctuary, I can't help but feel like I have left that place after Jesus is taken away.
To me, Holy Saturday feels like a day of in-between. And yet we have to bear witness to the suffering to get to the good news and glory of Jesus's resurrection. We have to tremble before we get to Alleluia.
The second song was written by an Episcopal education director in the 70s and is in the Cry Hosanna hymn book
Let us go forth into the world proclaiming the Good News . . .
The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia!
