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June 25, 2o20

6/26/2020

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Meditation for June 28, 2020
 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. [Matthew 5:9]
Our service of Morning Prayer on Sunday will center on prayers for social justice, and our readers will be members of the Mission Committee. In recent weeks all of us have been reawakened to the many ways we have unintentionally, even unconsciously, been complicit in racial injustice.  I have been haunted by the poem “Strange Fruit”, especially as it was sung by Billie Holliday. (A 1959 recording is available on YouTube).  The poem was written by Abel Meerpool, a Jewish man who taught English at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and who wrote under the name Lewis Allen. In the early 1930s, he wrote this poem in horrified response to a photograph of a lynching; he put the words to music and performed it for a club owner he knew, who gave it to Billie Holliday, through whom it became widely known as this century’s central metaphor for lynching.
Abel Meerpool wrote out of indignation and horror, little knowing how many millions of lives he would touch.  We pray for the grace to trust that our own small acts from the heart, perhaps solitary and invisible, will also awaken others in ways we cannot imagine.
 
Strange Fruit , by Lewis Allen. Sung by Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.


Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.


Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
9 AM SUNDAY - MORNING PRAYER
via ZOOM
Prayers for Social Justice
Ministers of the Liturgy:
The Rev. Judith Lee
Members of the Mission Committee:
Mary-Ellen Yaroshefski, Lucille Clinkman, Mary Torian, Ginny Starkis, Mary Johnson
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82256827302?pwd=Z0E3ZlpXY0hIRFdIZHN0ZnltdXNlZz09
Meeting ID: 822-5682-7302     Password: 546896
If you cannot access through your computer, you may participate by telephone.
Telephone: 929-205-6099
For the Morning Prayer leaflet, click here.
We will hold Morning Prayer via ZOOM at 9 am every Sunday in July and August
 
Next Steps:  Moving Forward
God of the present moment,
God who in Jesus stills the storm and soothes the frantic heart;
bring us hope and courage as we wait in uncertainty.
Bring hope that you will make us the equal of whatever lies ahead.
Bring us courage to endure what cannot be avoided,
for your will is health and wholeness;
you are God, and we need you.

- from A New Zealand Prayer Book
On June 22nd, your Vestry met to consider plans for re-opening the church building and in-person worship for the months of July and August. Their two considerations were the well-being of the congregation and faithfulness to your Mission Statement: Sharing the Grace of God, the Light of Christ, and the Power of the Holy Spirit through worship, ​ministry, and fellowship.
  1. We will continue with virtual worship for the summer.  A Vestry subcommittee will plan a special in-person service (outdoors) to be held in August, pending public health protocols. We will arrange for the church to be open for private prayer one weekday evening and on Sundays, pending diocesan approval. We will also arrange for a "tech partner" to help anyone who is having trouble accessing online worship.
  2. Despite our commitment to supporting our community, the Vestry felt more research is needed into what other churches are doing, what other community resources are available for meetings, and what our own liability would be, before opening our building to community groups.  A Vestry subcommittee will do the necessary research and present a proposal to the Vestry on July 13th.   At that meeting the Vestry will also approve a new Building Use Agreement. 
  3. Recognizing the importance of providing opportunities for in-person, non-virtual ways to share discussions about the preparations for the search, especially, the Vestry agreed to wait until after the virtual meetings, phone conversations, and mail-in responses to the topics for discussion scheduled in June. After that, they will decide whether in-person small-group meetings are both necessary and safe.  They agreed that the people who might seek the small-group meetings are the very people who might be most vulnerable in a room with other people.
  4.  There was strong consensus that whether or not to open the office should be determined by the amount of time needed for Magee to do the work that is required for current church operations.  They agreed that this decision should be made by Mother Judith in consultation with the Wardens.  Through July, Magee will be in the office on Mondays and Thursdays, 10 am – 3 pm

Parish Zoom Events:  We have a new Summer Schedule:
ZOOM Bingo on Sundays at 3 pm  & Game Night on Tuesdays @ 7 - We'll resume in September

Zoom-Chats: Mondays @ 7am & Wednesdays @ 8 pm:  Every Other Week:
Mondays:June 29, July 13 & 27, August 10
Wednesdays: June 24, July 8 & 22, August 5 & 19

Wednesdays @ 10 am: Morning Prayer & Fellowship via ZOOM - We'll continue weekly
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88905158309?pwd=dVpmY1JhajN6RWpTZmEzQ3NnOERBdz09
Meeting ID: 889-0515-8309   Password:  365669
Telephone: 929-205-6099

Fridays @ Noon: Lunch & Bible Study:  The Gospel of Matthew - We'll continue weekly through the month of July.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87474952317?pwd=UkdpQTNuNmtxVkhtYlZkVGVDVkZOQT09
Meeting ID: 874 7495 2317  Password:  097331
This Friday we will continue our discussion of the Gospel of Matthew through Chapter 12.

For a copy of the Reading Schedule click here: 
https://mcusercontent.com/31f1ff6e86fdaf99cb3a10f4e/files/69c82ad4-fdda-47fa-958a-a17d936fab63/Bible_Study_Gospel_of_Matthew.June_July_2020.01.pdf

Please note: Unscrupulous people have contacted parishioners claiming to be Mother Judith and  asking for money. Mother Judith's only email addresses are jlee.trinitychurchmilford@gmail.com or lee.judith.mary@gmail.com and her phone number is (716) 949-8194 .  She never asks for money! Please do not respond to any other email addresses or phone numbers. If you have a question about whether a request is REALLY from Mother Judith, please contact her first at these email addresses/phone number before sending any money. Thanks.
 
For the weekly announcements, click here.
 
New Rector Search: Next Steps
An important part of the search for a new rector is identifying who we are and what we as a parish are called to be. Ordinarily, we would gather that information at a parish-wide meeting. Since that is not possible, we will be hosting a series of Zoom meetings where we can discuss and reflect on these topics. For those without access to Zoom, we will schedule two in-person meetings sometime in July after we have received permission from the diocese to reopen. Members of the Vestry and  Chairs of the Search & Profile committees will facilitate these meetings. 
For a copy of the questions to respond to by mail or email click here.



The Zoom meetings will be held on:
Thursday, June 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM:   Meeting ID: 857 8399 5482   Password: 753634   Telephone: 929-205-6099
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85783995482?pwd=dkE5SHNoUVJHTXdXdTE0VGc2a25qQT09
Sunday, June 28th from 4:00 to 6:00 PM:  Meeting ID:  823 0182 9874   Password:   094136   Telephone: 929-205-6099
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82301829874?pwd=TG9oLzd3WituQnp0ajcybmpDL2lNUT09
Wednesday, July 1 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM:     Meeting ID: 889 0515 8309   Password: 365669
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88905158309?pwd=dVpmY1JhajN6RWpTZmEzQ3NnOERBdz09

The four areas we will cover are: 
  1. Worship/Liturgy
  2. Formation: Adult, Youth, Children
  3. Community partnerships
  4. Parish Life/Fellowship/Pastoral Care
 For each of these areas we will discuss the following questions:
      1. What ministries are most important to what Trinity is called to be?
      2. What is one important change or new ministry you would like Trinity to initiate within the next 3 years in each area?        
      3. What do we need to do now to prepare for this change or new ministry in each area?
 If you are unable to participate in any of the meetings, please provide written answers and send  them to vstarkis@verizon.net  by July 15.
 Your input, whether in person or written, is necessary for the success of our search and I encourage you to participate in these discussions. Thank you!    Ginny Starkis, Senior Warden
​Community Dinners
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June 18, 2020

6/20/2020

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e-blast Meditation: Father's Day
June 17, 2020
John O'Donohue's "Blessing for a New Father" captures, I think, the dreams and hopes, burdens and gifts. that all fathers experience in different ways as their children grow, and as they see their sons become fathers:
As the shimmer of dawn transforms the night
Into a blush of color future with delight,
The eyes of your new child awaken in you
A brightness that surprises your life.
 
Since the first stir of its secret becoming,
The echo of your child has lived inside you,
Strengthening through all its night of forming
Into a sure pulse of fostering music.
 
How quietly and gently that embryo-echo
Can womb in the bone of a man
And foster across the distance to the mother
A shadow-shelter around this fragile voyage.
 
Now as your behold your infant, you know
That this child has come from you and to you;
You feel the full force of a father’s desire
To protect and shelter.
 
Perhaps for the first time,
There awakens in you
A sense of your own mortality.
 
May your heart rest in the grace of the gift
And you sense how you have been called
Inside the dream of this new destiny.
 
May you be gentle and loving,
Clear and sure.
 
May you trust in the unseen providence
That has chosen you all to be a family.
 
May you stand sure on your ground
And know that every grace you need
Will unfold before you
Like all the mornings of your life.
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Trinity Church in partnership with the United Parish of Upton
and the Clergy of Milford & Hopedale
will come together in a Service of Prayer and Song to celebrate Juneteenth
Friday June 19, 2020
4 PM 
Live-streamed from United Parish of Upton
Here is a link to the service: https://youtu.be/G6zw8mJAZds
Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of legalized slavery in the United States. It recalls how the states of Louisiana and Texas heard the news that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Slavery continued in those two states for more than two years after the proclamation was signed because the word had yet to travel there. Texas and Louisiana finally got the good news on June 19, 1865 that legalized slavery in the United States of America had ended.

We worship in thanksgiving for the enduring vision of those first Freedmen and the generations of African Americans whose affirmation of the dignity of every human being has itself been an act of resistance. We pray for forgiveness for our own complicity in social injustice, and we renew our commitment to the freedom that is possible only when justice and peace are joined through the grace of our compassionate and merciful God

For a copy of the service leaflet click here.
General Order No. 3
​
The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.   This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property, between former masters and slaves and the connection heretofore existing between them, becomes that between employer and hired labor.  The Freedmen are advised to remain at their present homes and work for wages.  They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere
 

 9 AM SUNDAY - MORNING PRAYER
via ZOOM
A Celebration of our Fathers
Ministers of the Liturgy:
The Rev. Judith Lee
Dave Clinkman, Dwight Kee, Kevin Kepler, Steve Ketcham, Wayne Stochaj
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82256827302?pwd=Z0E3ZlpXY0hIRFdIZHN0ZnltdXNlZz09
Meeting ID: 822-5682-7302     Password: 546896
If you cannot access through your computer, you may participate by telephone.
Telephone: 929-205-6099
For the Morning Prayer leaflet, click here.

We will hold Morning Prayer at 9 am every Sunday in June..
June 29th: Prayers for Social Justice
Next Steps:  Moving Forward
God of the present moment,
God who in Jesus stills the storm and soothes the frantic heart;
bring us hope and courage as we wait in uncertainty.
Bring hope that you will make us the equal of whatever lies ahead.
Bring us courage to endure what cannot be avoided,
for your will is health and wholeness;
you are God, and we need you.

- from A New Zealand Prayer Book
​The diocese has developed a set of checklists for preparing to re-open our buildings.  The Vestry will develop a strategy based upon these checklists for worship, the office, small groups, and community groups, including disinfecting the sanctuary and church building.  When we have protocols for meetings, gatherings, and office operations, we will submit our plan to the Dean for review.  When the Dean has approved the plan, it will be sent to the Bishop for review.  With the Bishop's approval, we will implement our plan. 
Until then, we will continue with online Sunday Morning Prayer. The service will include music and we will explore safe ways to gather outside.

Thank you to everyone who completed the survey. of your views about what is necessary before we return to worship.  Your Vestry has reviewed your responses and they have been very helpful in developing a strategy for going forward.

The Bishops of the Dioceses of Massachusetts and Western Massachusetts issued a joint Letter with guidelines for our churches.  Click here to read the guidelines.
Parish Zoom Events:  We have a new Summer Schedule:
ZOOM Bingo on Sundays at 3 pm  & Game Night on Tuesdays @ 7 - We'll resume in September
Zoom-Chats: Mondays @ 7am & Wednesdays @ 8 pm:  Every Other Week:
Mondays:June 29, July 13 & 27, August 10
Wednesdays: June 24, July 8 & 22, August 5 & 19

Wednesdays @ 10 am: Morning Prayer & Fellowship via ZOOM - We'll continue weekly
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88905158309?pwd=dVpmY1JhajN6RWpTZmEzQ3NnOERBdz09
Meeting ID: 889-0515-8309   Password:  365669
Telephone: 929-205-6099

Fridays @ Noon: Lunch & Bible Study:  The Gospel of Matthew - We'll continue weekly
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87474952317?pwd=UkdpQTNuNmtxVkhtYlZkVGVDVkZOQT09
Meeting ID: 874 7495 2317  Password:  097331
This Friday we will continue our discussion of the Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 6 through 9
For a copy of the Reading Schedule click here: 
https://mcusercontent.com/31f1ff6e86fdaf99cb3a10f4e/files/69c82ad4-fdda-47fa-958a-a17d936fab63/Bible_Study_Gospel_of_Matthew.June_July_2020.01.pdf
Until further notice, Magee will be in the office on Monday and Thursday to do essential work.  Mother Judith is working remotely and is available by email and by phone, and she is checking phone messages regularly.  Beginning this week, she will be taking Tuesdays off.

Thank you  to everyone who participated in the Trinity Parade for Graduates last Sunday.  We  did not put out a general call for participation because we wanted to surprise our graduates and their families. So the parade included only Vestry members and some teachers who had worked with the graduates from the time they were very young  Thank you to Ann Marie Lockwood for orchestrating the parade, and to Wayne Stochaj for arranging the photos and designing the banner, along with Lisa Ruggiero. It looks like this may be a new Trinity tradition, so watch for the invitation next year! See the photos on our Facebook page and our website under Events/Celebrating our Graduates
 
Please note: Unscrupulous people have contacted parishioners claiming to be Mother Judith and  asking for money. Mother Judith's only email addresses are jlee.trinitychurchmilford@gmail.com or lee.judith.mary@gmail.com and her phone number is (716) 949-8194 .  She never asks for money! Please do not respond to any other email addresses or phone numbers. If you have a question about whether a request is REALLY from Mother Judith, please contact her first at these email addresses/phone number before sending any money. Thanks.
 
For the weekly announcements, click here.
 New Rector Search: Next Steps
An important part of the search for a new rector is identifying who we are and what we as a parish are called to be. Ordinarily, we would gather that information at a parish-wide meeting. Since that is not possible, we will be hosting a series of Zoom meetings where we can discuss and reflect on these topics. For those without access to Zoom, we will schedule two in-person meetings sometime in July after we have received permission from the diocese to reopen. Members of the Vestry and Search/Profile committees will facilitate these meetings.
The Zoom meetings will be held on:
Thursday, June 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM:   Meeting ID: 857 8399 5482   Password: 753634
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85783995482?pwd=dkE5SHNoUVJHTXdXdTE0VGc2a25qQT09
Sunday, June 28th from 4:00 to 6:00 PM:  Meeting ID:  823 0182 9874   Password:   094136
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82301829874?pwd=TG9oLzd3WituQnp0ajcybmpDL2lNUT09
Wednesday, July 1 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM:     Meeting ID: 889 0515 8309   Password: 365669
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88905158309?pwd=dVpmY1JhajN6RWpTZmEzQ3NnOERBdz09

The four areas we will cover are:
  1. Worship/Liturgy
  2. Formation: Adult, Youth, Children
  3. Community partnerships
  4. Parish Life/Fellowship/Pastoral Care
 For each of these areas we will discuss the following questions:
      1. What ministries are most important to what Trinity is called to be?
      2. What is one important change or new ministry you would like Trinity to initiate within the next 3 years in each area?
        
      3. What do we need to do now to prepare for this change or new ministry in each area?
 If you are unable to participate in any of the meetings, please provide written answers and send  them to vstarkis@verizon.net  by July 15.
 Your input, whether in person or written, is extremely important to the success of our search and I encourage you to participate in these discussions. Thank you!    Ginny Starkis, Senior Warden
Community Dinners
​Thursday June 25th  Grab n Go Meals  4:30- 6 pm 
We distributed 40 meals on May 28th, and donated 10 meals to the Food Pantry. We will distribute  meals prepared by Oliva's from the parking lot at Trinity on  the last Thursday of the month throughout the summer: June 25th, July 30th, and August 27th. If you can volunteer to help with setting up and taking down the tables, distributing meals, and bring leftover meals to the Food Pantry, in June, July, or August, please contact Glen Peterson.   We will certify Community Service credit. 
We plan to continue arranging for meals to be delivered to our frontline workers once a month, and to distribute meals from Trinity monthly.  Our purpose is to support our local small restaurants and frontline workers as well as to provide for our neighbors.  We continue our strong partnership with the Food Pantry and with other local churches and community organizations. Please contact Glen Peterson if you are able to help in any way.

To contribute to this project, please send your check payable to Trinity Church with Community Dinners on the memo line or donate directly to Hopedale Unitarian Parish, who is managing the funds for this project, by going to https://hopedaleunitarian.org  and  pressing the Donate button. Please let Mother Judith know if you would like to participate in distributing meals.

Prayer List
Please send Magee the names of people you would like to be on the Prayer List. Our policy has been to remove names after 4 weeks, but we want to be sure we follow the wishes of families and friends.
Our prayer list is included in the weekly announcements . 

Pledges
Thank you to all of you who have been sending in your pledges.  Our deposits are being made on a different schedule these days, so there may be a delay in seeing the record of your payment.  Some of you are facing financial stress: if so, please give what you can; if not, please give a bit extra to support those who cannot.
How to keep up with Trinity news:  All notices, videos, and links can be found at www.trinitychurchmilford.org
Our diocesan website offers links to online worship in our diocese.  
https://www.diocesewma.org/
Worship from the National Cathedral is available online every Sunday at 11:15 am. https://cathedral.org/
Third season of The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry podcast began on May 5th. Click here. 
Habits of Grace: An invitation for you, from Presiding Bishop Curry
 A new video meditation will be posted on Mondays through May. Click here to view the latest.

Mission Matters: News from the Episcopal Diocese of Western MA latest issue can be found here.
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June 11th, 2020

6/11/2020

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Meditation for June 11, 2020

The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.  [Matthew 9:37]
This year, we are perhaps more ready than in prior years to hear Jesus’ call to go out.
Summer weather and blooming gardens show the renewal of life all around us.
We celebrate our young people graduating from one phase of life to another.
We are going further from home and visiting with more people.
We are growing weary of virtual visits and we have no more closets to clean.
Thousands of people of all ages, races, and ethnicities are walking together, some in silence and some in song, calling for a new way of living.
We are having heart-opening conversations with people we have known for a long time, without knowing the truths of their lives.
This year, we are perhaps more ready to see the hunger all around us: physical hunger caused by famine and economic collapse, spiritual and emotional hunger caused by neglect.
In the light of our faith, we see more darkness and we see more hope.
Our faith gives us a fearless compassion and an unshakeable resolve to use the gifts that God has given us to go out and  feed the hungry, clothe the naked, free the captives, heal the broken-hearted.
We are sending our young people out to a world that is perhaps different from the world we had hoped for them, but it is a world full of life and hope, a world with so many paths to explore, so many mysteries to discern, so much beauty to see with joy and wonder, so much that is unfinished.
Let us heed Jesus’ call: The kingdom of heaven has come near. 
[Matthew 10:7]
 God asks, “Who will go for me?
Who will extend my reach?
And who, when few will listen
Will prophesy and preach?
And who, when few bid welcome,
Will offer all they know?
And who, when few dare follow,
Will walk the road I show?”
                                    John L. Bell and Graham Maule, The Wild Goose of Iona
                                    Quoted in Celtic Daily Prayer, p. 487
9 AM SUNDAY - MORNING PRAYER
via ZOOM

A Celebration of our Graduates
College Graduates:
Jacqueline Masse & Elaina Chambers
High School Graduates:
AJ Cook, Liam & Rory Crisfield, Brandon Kee, Lorenzo Morese,
Grace Prevelige, Betsey Scrimgeour
Eighth Grade:
Harrison Philips & Anthony Ruggiero
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82256827302?pwd=Z0E3ZlpXY0hIRFdIZHN0ZnltdXNlZz09
Meeting ID: 822-5682-7302     Password: 596896
If you cannot access through your computer, you may participate by telephone.
Telephone: 929-205-6099
For the Morning Prayer leaflet, click here.

We will hold Morning Prayer at 9 am every Sunday in June.
June 14th: Prayers to honor our graduates
June 21st: Prayers to honor our fathers
June 29th: Prayers for Social Justice
​

Next Steps:  Moving Forward
Almighty God, who has created us in your own image:
Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil
and to make no peace with oppression;
and, that we may reverently use our freedom,
help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice
in our communities and among the nations,
to the glory of your holy Name. Amen.

The diocese has developed a checklist for preparing to re-open our buildings.  The Vestry will develop a strategy based upon this checklist, including disinfecting the sanctuary and church building.  When we have completed the requisite cleaning and we have protocols for meetings, gatherings, and office operations, we will submit our plan to the Dean for review.  When the Dean has approved the plan, it will be sent to the Bishop for review.  With the Bishop's approval, we will implement our plan. 

Until then, we will continue with online Sunday Morning Prayer. The service will include music and we will explore safe ways to gather outside.

Thank you to everyone who completed the survey.  Your Vestry has reviewed your responses and they have been very helpful in developing a strategy for going forward.

The Bishops of the Dioceses of Massachusetts and Western Massachusetts issued a joint Letter with guidelines for our churches.  Click here to read the guidelines.

Parish Zoom Events:
Watch for our summer schedule: to be announced next week

​ZOOM Bingo on Sundays at 3 pm  FUN FOR ALL AGES
Go to zoom.us, and in the upper right corner click on "Join a meeting"
Meeting ID: 946 0462 5193    Password:
 450074Make your own bingo cards, or go one of the following websites to print them:  (These are free.)  
https://myfreebingocards.com/bingo-card-generator  
https://print-bingo.com/
https://bingobaker.com/view/1228516
http://www.dltk-cards.com/bingo/bingo7.asp
Sarah Prevelige is our host. Please contact her for help in making cards or entering the game. 

Zoom-Chats: Mondays @ 7am & Wednesdays @ 8 pm
A time tor conversation about what's working and what's not, and including a meditation led by Cindi Scrimgeour.  Go to zoom.us and in the upper right corner click “Join a Meeting”
Mondays: Meeting ID: 413315567    Password: 715478
Wednesdays:  Meeting ID: 474316522   Password: 744170
Wednesday Chats will be held every other Wednesday:
June 24, July 8, July 22, August 5, August 19
There will be no Wednesday Chat next week (June 17):
​Sarah Prevelige will host the meeting via zoom. Please contact her for information on how to join the meeting drprevelige@gmail.com. 

ZOOM Game Night: Tuesdays @ 7pm 
We will be playing FIBBAGE, WHIPLASH, + other online games every week.
Meeting ID: 823 3526 2364     Password: 067862
Sarah Prevelige is the host. Please contact Sarah if you have any questions: drprevelige@gmail.com

Wednesdays @ 10 am: Morning Prayer & Fellowship via ZOOM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88905158309?pwd=dVpmY1JhajN6RWpTZmEzQ3NnOERBdz09
Meeting ID: 889-0515-8309   Password:  365669
Telephone: 929-205-6099

Fridays @ Noon: Lunch & Bible Study:  The Gospel of Matthew
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85268660423?pwd=YVpBeTh6YVRLVEprcHpDcFZ2UEJJUT09
Meeting ID: 85268660423   Password:  307579
This Friday we will continue our discussion of the Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 1-5.
For a copy of the Reading Schedule click here: 
https://mcusercontent.com/31f1ff6e86fdaf99cb3a10f4e/files/69c82ad4-fdda-47fa-958a-a17d936fab63/Bible_Study_Gospel_of_Matthew.June_July_2020.01.pdf
Until further notice, Magee will be in the office on Monday and Thursday to do essential work.  Mother Judith is working remotely and is available by email and by phone, and she is checking phone messages regularly.  

Please note: Unscrupulous people are contacting parishioners claiming to be Mother Judith and  asking for money. Mother Judith's only email addresses are jlee.trinitychurchmilford@gmail.com or lee.judith.mary@gmail.com and her phone number is (716) 949-8194 .  Please do not respond to any other email addresses or phone numbers. If you have a question about whether a request is REALLY from Mother Judith, please contact her first at these email addresses/phone number before sending any money. Thanks.
 
For the weekly announcements, click here.

Profile and Search Committees:  Inviting Applications

On July 13th, the Vestry will appoint members of the Profile and Search Committees. It seems like a very long time since we invited applications, so we are asking again.  We have a new story to tell now, and perhaps new priorities.  Please consider whether you are called to serve on one of these committees.  Canon Simpson will meet with the Committees and Vestry on September 12th.  The work of the Profile Committee will take place in the fall; the work of the Search Committee will take place in the winter and early spring.  Please contact Ginny Starkis or Susan Edmondson if you are interested in learning more.
Click here for a copy of the Application
​Community Dinners
​Thursday June 25th  Grab n Go Meals  4:30- 6 pm 
We distributed 40 meals on May 28th, and donated 10 meals to the Food Pantry. We will distribute  meals prepared by Oliva's from the parking lot at Trinity on  the last Thursday of the month throughout the summer: June 25th, July 30th, and August 27th. If you can volunteer to help with setting up and taking down the tables, distributing meals, and bring leftover meals to the Food Pantry, in June, July, or August, please contact Glen Peterson.   We will certify Community Service credit. 
We plan to continue arranging for meals to be delivered to our frontline workers once a month, and to distribute meals from Trinity monthly.  Our purpose is to support our local small restaurants and frontline workers as well as to provide for our neighbors.  We continue our strong partnership with the Food Pantry and with other local churches and community organizations. Please contact Glen Peterson if you are able to help in any way.

To contribute to this project, please send your check payable to Trinity Church with Community Dinners on the memo line or donate directly to Hopedale Unitarian Parish, who is managing the funds for this project, by going to https://hopedaleunitarian.org  and  pressing the Donate button. Please let Mother Judith know if you would like to participate in distributing meals.

Prayer List
Please send Magee the names of people you would like to be on the Prayer List. Our policy has been to remove names after 4 weeks, but we want to be sure we follow the wishes of families and friends.
Our prayer list is included in the weekly announcements . 

Pledges
Thank you to all of you who have been sending in your pledges.  Our deposits are being made on a different schedule these days, so there may be a delay in seeing the record of your payment.  Some of you are facing financial stress: if so, please give what you can; if not, please give a bit extra to support those who cannot.
How to keep up with Trinity news:  All notices, videos, and links can be found at www.trinitychurchmilford.org
Our diocesan website offers links to online worship in our diocese.  
https://www.diocesewma.org/
Worship from the National Cathedral is available online every Sunday at 11:15 am. https://cathedral.org/
Third season of The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry podcast began on May 5th. Click here. 
Habits of Grace: An invitation for you, from Presiding Bishop Curry
 A new video meditation will be posted on Mondays through May. Click here to view the latest.

Mission Matters: News from the Episcopal Diocese of Western MA latest issue can be found here.
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News for the Week of June 7

6/7/2020

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Meditation for June 4, 2020 

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.  [Isaiah 61:1]
 
According to the Gospel of Luke, Jesus quotes this passage from Isaiah when he is teaching in the synagogue at the very beginning of his ministry (4:18).  It is an important reminder of where our own ministry as the Body of Christ begins:  Led by the Holy Spirit (not by our own personal passions) we are a people of hope, compassion, and freedom.  This message has long been at the core of Trinity’s mission, and we will continue to draw together the members of our community with an unwavering faith in God’s mercy in a way that is distinctive enough to open up new ways of understanding and new paths to freedom.

During the past week, especially, I have returned to these words by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice.
Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.  


How can we lead our community to implement the demands of justice?  
How can we lead our community to correct everything that stands against love?
We can do 3 things:
1.    We can make a public statement. We will gather for public prayer on the grounds of Trinity on Friday June 19th (Juneteenth), the anniversary of the official ending of the Civil War and the pronouncement that all slaves were free.  Watch for more information about the time and arrangements for this gathering.
2.    We can learn.  At our ZOOM chat on Wednesday evening we talked about our need to understand more about the racial divisions in our history and culture and our own unexamined biases.  We will create a forum where we will post suggestions for reading and films to watch, and where we can explore ways to share our questions and reflections.
3.    We can act.  How can we improve access to voting—our essential expression of freedom and hope?  How can we make the grounds of Trinity—even in these days—a space where everyone can breathe? 

The Spirit of the Lord is upon us. We have been sent to bring about a world where the words I can’t breathe will never be heard again.  It is perhaps a foolish hope, but a sacred trust.

“Listen, Lord-A Prayer”  by James Weldon Johnson ( God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse 1927)  [the first two verses]:
O Lord, we come this morning
Knee-bowed and body-bent
Before thy throne of grace.
O Lord—this morning--
Bow our hearts beneath our knees,
And our knees in some lonesome valley.
We come this morning--
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain,
With no merits of our own.
O Lord—open up a window of heaven,
And lean out far over the battlements of glory,
And listen this morning.

Lord, have mercy on proud and dying sinners--
Sinners hanging over the mouth of hell,
Who seem to love their distance well.
Lord—ride by this morning--
Mount your mild-white horse,
And ride-a this morning--
And in your ride, ride by old hell,
Ride by the dingy gates of hell,
And stop poor sinners in their headlong plunge.
​9 AM SUNDAY - MORNING PRAYER
via ZOOM

We will celebrate our Sunday School Students and Rachel Carpenter
follow the Service we will have an Ice Cream Social
Our students will be our readers and lead our prayers.
Meeting ID: 822-5682-7302     Password: 596896
If you cannot access through your computer, you may participate by telephone.
Telephone: 929-205-6099

For a direct link click here.

We will hold Morning Prayer at 9 am every Sunday in June.


June 14th:
 Prayers to honor our graduates
College Graduates: Jacqueline Masse & Elaina Chambers
High School Graduates: AJ Cook, Liam & Rory Crisfield, Brandon Kee, Grace Prevelige, Betsey Scrimgeour
Eighth Grade: Harrison Philips & Anthony Ruggiero
 
June 21st: Prayers to honor our fathers
Responding to the coronavirus pandemic at Trinity
Almighty God, who has created us in your own image:
Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil
and to make no peace with oppression;
and, that we may reverently use our freedom,
help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice
in our communities and among the nations,
to the glory of your holy Name. Amen.

​
In-person worship is suspended at least through July 1st.  This does not mean that we will begin in-person worship in July:  There are many factors to be considered in order to make our sanctuary and our building safe for meetings and worship. Thank you to everyone who completed the survey.  Your Vestry has reviewed your responses and they have been very helpful in developing a strategy for going forward.
Vestry Meeting:  June 8th Strategies for moving forward

The Bishops of the Dioceses of Massachusetts and Western Massachusetts issued a joint Letter with guidelines for our churches.  Click here to read the guidelines.

Parish Zoom Events

ZOOM Bingo on Sundays at 3 pm
FUN FOR ALL AGES

Go to zoom.us, and in the upper right corner click on "Join a meeting"
Meeting ID: 946 0462 5193    Password:
 450074Make your own bingo cards, or go one of the following websites to print them:  (These are free.)  
https://myfreebingocards.com/bingo-card-generator
https://print-bingo.com/
https://bingobaker.com/view/1228516
http://www.dltk-cards.com/bingo/bingo7.asp
Sarah Prevelige is our host. Please contact her for help in making cards or entering the game. 

Zoom-Chats: Mondays @ 7am & Wednesdays @ 8 pm
A time tor conversation about what's working and what's not, and including a meditation led by Cindi Scrimgeour. 
Go to zoom.us and in the upper right corner click “Join a Meeting”
Mondays: Meeting ID: 413315567    Password: 715478
Wednesdays:  Meeting ID: 474316522   Password: 744170
Sarah Prevelige will host the meeting via zoom. Please contact her for information on how to join the meeting drprevelige@gmail.com. 

Game Night: Tuesdays @ 7pm 
We will be playing FIBBAGE + new online games every week.
Meeting ID: 823 3526 2364     Password: 067862
Sarah Prevelige is the host. Please contact Sarah if you have any questions: drprevelige@gmail.com

Wednesdays @ 10 am: Morning Prayer & Fellowship via ZOOM
Meeting ID: 889-0515-8309   Password:  365669
Telephone: 929-205-6099

Fridays @ Noon: Lunch & Bible Study:  11:30 this week
Meeting ID: 815-7215-5558    Password:  030395
for a direct link click here: 

This Friday we will meet at 11:30 am and we will begin our discussion of the Gospel of Matthew, with focus on Chapters 1 & 2.

First Fridays @ 12:30 - ROMEOS - THIS FRIDAY  JUNE 5TH 
Join the men of the parish for virtual lunch and conversation. Contact Dave Clinkman for more information.  clinkman@comcast.net
Meeting ID: 839-5217-3496    Password: 70828   Telephone: 929-205-6099
Magee will be in the office on Monday and Thursday to do essential work.  Mother Judith is working remotely and is available by email and by phone, and she is checking phone messages regularly.  
Please note: A member of the parish  received a message from someone claiming to be Mother Judith and  asking for money.  Please note her phone number: 716-949-8194 and confirm with her if you receive an unexpected or unexplained text or email  
 
For the weekly announcements, click here.

Profile and Search Comitties: Inviting Applications

On July 13th, the Vestry will appoint members of the Profile and Search Committees. It seems like a very long time since we invited applications, so we are asking again.  We have a new story to tell now, and perhaps new priorities.  Please consider whether you are called to serve on one of these committees.  Canon Simpson will meet with the Committees and Vestry on September 12th.  The work of the Profile Committee will take place in the fall; the work of the Search Committee will take place in the winter and early spring.  Please contact Ginny Starkis or Susan Edmondson if you are interested in learning more.
Click 
here for a copy of the Application.
​Community Dinners
Thursday June 25th  Grab n Go Meals  4:30- 6 pm 
We distributed 40 meals on May 28th, and donated 10 meals to the Food Pantry. We will distribute  meals prepared by Oliva's from the parking lot at Trinity on  the last Thursday of the month throughout the summer: June 25th, July 30th, and August 27th. If you can volunteer to help with setting up and taking down the tables, distributing meals, and bring leftover meals to the Food Pantry, in June, July, or August, please contact Glen Peterson.   We will certify Community Service credit. 
We plan to continue arranging for meals to be delivered to our frontline workers once a month, and to distribute meals from Trinity monthly.  Our purpose is to support our local small restaurants and frontline workers as well as to provide for our neighbors.  We continue our strong partnership with the Food Pantry and with other local churches and community organizations. Please contact Glen Peterson if you are able to help in any way.

To contribute to this project, please send your check payable to Trinity Church with Community Dinners on the memo line or donate directly to Hopedale Unitarian Parish, who is managing the funds for this project, by going to https://hopedaleunitarian.org  and  pressing the Donate button. Please let Mother Judith know if you would like to participate in distributing meals.

Prayer List
Please send Magee the names of people you would like to be on the Prayer List. Our policy has been to remove names after 4 weeks, but we want to be sure we follow the wishes of families and friends.
Our prayer list is included in the weekly announcements . 

Pledges
Thank you to all of you who have been sending in your pledges.  Our deposits are being made on a different schedule these days, so there may be a delay in seeing the record of your payment.  Some of you are facing financial stress: if so, please give what you can; if not, please give a bit extra to support those who cannot.
How to keep up with Trinity news:  All notices, videos, and links can be found at www.trinitychurchmilford.org
Our diocesan website offers links to online worship in our diocese.  
https://www.diocesewma.org/
Worship from the National Cathedral is available online every Sunday at 11:15 am. https://cathedral.org/
Third season of The Way of Love with Bishop Michael Curry podcast began on May 5th. Click here. 
Habits of Grace: An invitation for you, from Presiding Bishop Curry
 A new video meditation will be posted on Mondays through May. Click here to view the latest.

Mission Matters: News from the Episcopal Diocese of Western MA latest issue can be found here.

Statement from Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry on President Donald Trump’s use of a church building and the Holy Bible 
Click here to view.
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​milford, Massachusetts

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