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Worship Services
When you visit Trinity, you’ll quickly find that we are a warm, receiving group, and we laugh - a lot! Friendship, faith, food, fun, and service are what our fellowship is made of.
Please note our new service times:
Sunday 8:00 am - This is a service of Holy Communion that is lass than an hour long. It is a quiet, reflective service.
Sunday 9:00 am - This is a "special care" service of Holy Communion for those who need a mask and social distance time slot.
Sundays 10:30 am - This service is an hour long and fifteen minutes long. It includes congregational hymns, led by our magnificent choir, a 25 minute sermon, and includes incense.
Wednesdays 8:30 am - Morning Prayer followed by Holy Communion at 9:00AM, together about an hour long,
Please note our new service times:
Sunday 8:00 am - This is a service of Holy Communion that is lass than an hour long. It is a quiet, reflective service.
Sunday 9:00 am - This is a "special care" service of Holy Communion for those who need a mask and social distance time slot.
Sundays 10:30 am - This service is an hour long and fifteen minutes long. It includes congregational hymns, led by our magnificent choir, a 25 minute sermon, and includes incense.
Wednesdays 8:30 am - Morning Prayer followed by Holy Communion at 9:00AM, together about an hour long,
Children
We provide care for your toddlers and a Sunday school class during the service for your young children. Our team of experienced and dedicated mothers are there to provide carefully considered, fun and age appropriate religious instruction.
We provide care for your toddlers and a Sunday school class during the service for your young children. Our team of experienced and dedicated mothers are there to provide carefully considered, fun and age appropriate religious instruction.
What is the service like?
Style
When you visit you'll notice that our style of worship is thoroughly Anglican - the emphasis is on prayers, reading scripture and holy Communion. Beauty and dignity is our worship language, We are not overly formal and you can attend in normal street clothes, but we do encourage people to dress tastefully. Our liturgy (pattern of service) follows the Book of Common Prayer and Anglican Missal. You can follow the service from the Prayer Book, but we also provide a bulletin and Missal Guide.
Approach
Our approach to the liturgy is to create a sense of sacred mystery while still feeling comfortable. You will find at times that we kneel and make the sign of the cross. We chant a little, in the "olde" English way, light candles, sing hymns and you may smell incense. We listen to a bible-based sermon lasting about 20-30 minutes. We pray together, but there are times the priest prays for us. This provides time for quiet contemplation as we prepare to receive Communion. We receive Holy Eucharist in bread and wine at the altar rail, kneeling. If you are unsure whether you should take Communion, ask the priest. If you are not receiving Communion you may still come to the rail and cross your arms in front of you to receive a blessing. Communion is followed by concluding prayers and dismissal.
Music
Because we believe that Holy Communion is the pinnacle of worship, our music is intended to maintain our focus on God and the mystery of the incarnation. In keeping with a traditional Anglican setting we chant some parts and sing hymns. We may perform other classical pieces of music, feature a soloist, or sing Taize music. This music is meant to move the soul through the substance of the themes and beauty of the voices, to inspire the intellect and heart, and through these our emotions.
When you visit you'll notice that our style of worship is thoroughly Anglican - the emphasis is on prayers, reading scripture and holy Communion. Beauty and dignity is our worship language, We are not overly formal and you can attend in normal street clothes, but we do encourage people to dress tastefully. Our liturgy (pattern of service) follows the Book of Common Prayer and Anglican Missal. You can follow the service from the Prayer Book, but we also provide a bulletin and Missal Guide.
Approach
Our approach to the liturgy is to create a sense of sacred mystery while still feeling comfortable. You will find at times that we kneel and make the sign of the cross. We chant a little, in the "olde" English way, light candles, sing hymns and you may smell incense. We listen to a bible-based sermon lasting about 20-30 minutes. We pray together, but there are times the priest prays for us. This provides time for quiet contemplation as we prepare to receive Communion. We receive Holy Eucharist in bread and wine at the altar rail, kneeling. If you are unsure whether you should take Communion, ask the priest. If you are not receiving Communion you may still come to the rail and cross your arms in front of you to receive a blessing. Communion is followed by concluding prayers and dismissal.
Music
Because we believe that Holy Communion is the pinnacle of worship, our music is intended to maintain our focus on God and the mystery of the incarnation. In keeping with a traditional Anglican setting we chant some parts and sing hymns. We may perform other classical pieces of music, feature a soloist, or sing Taize music. This music is meant to move the soul through the substance of the themes and beauty of the voices, to inspire the intellect and heart, and through these our emotions.
Coffee and Refreshments are provided after the services.
Is our worship Biblical?
If you come from a Roman Catholic background, our worship will feel very similar. Some people that come from an evangelical or Baptist background might question if our worship is "Biblical". It is!
At the time of the Protestant Reformation, the church in England instituted many reforms in keeping with Martin Luther and John Calvin, as well as several English Reformers. Rather than taking a more radical approach, the English reformers sought to retain certain marks of the church and her Faith that they believed were essential to Christianity from the beginning. But one thing they thought was important and needed to be front and center, the Word of God! So, they created the Book of Common Prayer from scripture - literally taking lines and passages from the Bible and incorporating them into the prayers and ritual of worship. A worshipper will probably hear more scripture read in an Anglican church than in almost any other.
Our pattern of worship is meant to look like the heavenly worship described in Revelation chapter 4, rather that being pattered after our own cultural ones. In this way we worship according to the culture of heaven, not man.
At the time of the Protestant Reformation, the church in England instituted many reforms in keeping with Martin Luther and John Calvin, as well as several English Reformers. Rather than taking a more radical approach, the English reformers sought to retain certain marks of the church and her Faith that they believed were essential to Christianity from the beginning. But one thing they thought was important and needed to be front and center, the Word of God! So, they created the Book of Common Prayer from scripture - literally taking lines and passages from the Bible and incorporating them into the prayers and ritual of worship. A worshipper will probably hear more scripture read in an Anglican church than in almost any other.
Our pattern of worship is meant to look like the heavenly worship described in Revelation chapter 4, rather that being pattered after our own cultural ones. In this way we worship according to the culture of heaven, not man.
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