Rummage Sale Coming in October, Donations Needed!

Coming October 19-21

The Rummage Committee is now collecting donations. Please email us to make a reservation to drop them off at rummage@trinityprinceton.org.

When you arrive to drop off your donations, please park in the church parking lot next to Ivy Hall and we will come and retrieve them directly from your vehicle.

During these dog days of summer, start cleaning out your closets and attics. We need as many of your donations as possible to make this a great sale!

Many thanks to all!

 

Please donate:

  • Gently-worn & Clean Men’s, Women’s, and Children’s Clothing for All Seasons

  • Better Ladies’ Dresses & Men’s Clothing

  • Housewares (Please, No Glass Vases)

  • Electronics

  • Books

  • Linens

  • Shoes

  • Jewelry (Fine & Costume)

  • Vintage & Antique Items (Remember that Edison Diamond Disc Gramophone from last year?)

  • Boutique Items (Crystal, China, & Art)

Please Leave at Home:

  • Sporting Goods (Uniforms, sporting equipment, gym equipment, bicycles, skateboards, ice skates, kayaks, skis, etc.)

  • Furniture of Any Kind

  • Rugs or Other Large Floor Coverings

 

Lambeth ’First Peter’ Bible Study — Week 2

“We have gone from death to life, but we are stones. Living stones are those who are not yet quarried... still being shaped by the elements, still acquiring sediment.”
“We are Living stones, the people of god, called to love one another. Worship, forgiveness, witness!”

Holiness is a wooing of a sort of Christ-like integrity that draws us into the presence and the being of God and encourages us to take others on that journey too.

Holiness is a feeling that drives us to become; this understanding that there's more to you in life; this feeling that pushes you to want to do more, to be better, to become a better version of yourself, continually.

Holiness is connected to God and to action, takes us out into the world, it does not hide us away in a holy huddle. It is relational (in scripture).

It is not about transformative piety; it is not about something we can manufacture for ourselves and make for ourselves; it is the gift of the grace of God given by God and God alone.

 
“Holiness is supremely shown in God coming close to the unholy.”
 

Holiness is not tolerance, holiness is not being driven by what I think is right and wrong, that is not holiness. Holiness is a sacred space that is embodied in us, the life of the Holy Trinity.

“Holiness is making other people uncomfortable. Holiness is relationship building and hospitality.”
“What makes one person holy and thus included is not human action it is divine grace and human response.”

Holiness is not something over which we have power and control. It is the movement of God. Jesus makes the unholy holy in every way.

The call of the Christian is to live on the very front line of holiness, so we can reach over the frontier and draw people into the love of Christ.

“‘Sinners’ became holy only because Christ is in the middle of it. Christ is the one who makes us holy.”
“How do we walk together? What do we do when we separate ourselves from the other? What are we doing to ourselves and them?”

How do we listen to each other? How do we understand ourselves and our communion as living stones God, God's holy people?

 
“Learn, listen, and evangelize!”
 

These are only a few of the quotes from 1 Peter Week 2: A Holy People following Christ.

The First Peter Bible Study is now ‘soul-ly’ on Zoom Wednesdays! 😊The next sessions are July 26 and August 2, 9 from 6–8pm.

To access this worldwide Bible study, email Bonnie Bivins at blbivins@verizon.net to get the Zoom link and study materials!

To Watch the 1 Peter 2 Video Click Here:

 
 

Ways to participate:

Come and listen to Archbishop of Canterbury Welby leading next week’s Bible text with global contextual reflections.

Week 3: Resistance and Resilience in Christ, July 26, 1 Peter 3:1-22.

UrbanPromise Summer Camp Volunteers Needed!

I am looking for a few volunteers to help set up the snacks for summer camp at Trinity Cathedral in Trenton the week of Monday, July 31 – Thursday, August 3. The children receive meals provided by Mercer Street Friends but we are asked to provide a snack before the end of the day.

It will involve maybe 2-3 people from about 1:30–3pm every afternoon. I will organize and purchase the snacks. If you are only able to help a few times that will be alright.

Please consider this outreach opportunity and contact me, Martha Lashbrook, at lashbrookmartha@gmail.com or (609) 477-6285.

Lambeth ’First Peter’ Bible Study — Week 1

The First Peter Bible Study is now ‘soul-ly’ on Zoom Wednesdays! 😊The next sessions are July 19, 26 and August 2, 9 from 6–8pm.

To access this worldwide Bible study, email Bonnie Bivins at blbivins@verizon.net to get the Zoom link and study materials!

If you missed Week 1: Called into Hope and Holiness in Christ (July 12th) 1 Peter 1:1-25, or were not able to attend Wednesday evening, the Week 1 video can be watched here:

 
 

The Week 1 First Peter Bible Study material is below:

Participants from Week 1 found this one-to-one Bible study reflection very insightful!

Ways to participate:

  • Come Wednesdays from 6–8pm and participate LIVE.

  • View the current week’s video and come Wednesday at 7pm to reflect on the questions LIVE.

  • View the previous week’s video and find a friend, family member, or Trinity Church member to pair with, and discuss the study material.

Quotes from Called to Hope & Holiness in Christ:

From Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby:

“Hope is not what we have, it’s what God has for us…”
“Peter goes back and echoes Leviticus. He calls us to holiness to imitate God in God’s self-sacrificial movement towards us in Jesus Christ…”
“Why 1 Peter, Lambeth 1 Peter, at this time? Because we need each other. We aren’t perfect but we are called to walk together, to witness together, and to listen together in Christ…”
“The death and resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the living hope. There’s no other means of getting that hope. It is the way in which we are able to stand firm against all that brings death in individual lives, in communities, in the world. ”
“Our hope is living and alive, not stagnant and stale.”

Come and listen to Archbishop of Canterbury Welby leading next week’s Bible text with global contextual reflections.

Week 2: A Holy People following Christ, July 19, 1 Peter 2:1-25.

The Week 2 Bible study reflects on Living Stones, Honorable Conduct, and Suffering for Doing What is Right.

The Most Important Meeting You’ve Never Heard Of: The Synod of Whitby, 664

I originally planned on sending a video this week, but I’m writing instead because I’m still recovering from Covid and it would take a lot to make myself look presentable! Remember that in my last video, we learned about the development of “Celtic” practices of Christian life in early Britain that were sometimes at odds with how things were done in Rome. Some of those differences were small, like the way monks cut their hair. Some were critically important for political and financial reasons. In the early British church, the real power brokers in the church were the abbots of monasteries rather than bishops. But one seemingly small difference in practice would rearrange how Christianity in Britain worked.

In the court of Northumbria, King Oswiu had been taught by Irish monks and followed their method for calculating the date of Easter. But Queen Eanflaed, his wife, was taught to calculate Easter according to the Roman method. When one half of a couple is celebrating Easter and the other is still fasting for Holy Week, it’s bound to create some tensions. In 664, a council was summoned to the great monastery of Whitby to settle the question once and for all: how do we know when it’s Easter?

Whitby functioned as a “double monastery”, where a community of monks and a community of nuns shared the same church but lived in separate quarters. Because they were generally governed by an abbess, these double monasteries were the home of powerful women leaders, and St. Hilda of Whitby was no exception.

The debate at the Synod of Whitby centered on a question that is still relevant for Christian life: Where does the church’s authority come from? Who decides, and on what basis, when differences of practice or belief come up? The supporters of the Irish method of calculation argued that “we’ve always done it this way,” a refrain you can hear in church arguments even today! But the supporters of the Roman method appealed to the authority given to Peter in Scripture: “You are Peter and upon this rock I shall build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it and to you I give the keys to the kingdom of heaven.” King Oswiu found that logic convincing, and as a result Christian practice in Britain was brought into alignment with more universal practice.

I encourage you to check out the links and learn more about St Hilda, one of the truly fascinating women of Christian history.

This episode of Time Team, one of my favorite TV shows, focuses on the archaeological search for St. Hilda’s monastery.

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