Feb21
Visit our full Lent page for more details and a downloadable/printable brochure. Lenten Academy Wednesdays, February 29, March 7, 14, 21 5:45 p.m. Contemplative Eucharist 6:15 p.m. Dinner 7-8 p.m. Classes No preregistration required! Class Offerings • The Politics of Mark — Led by Fr. Michael Johnston • Pilgrimage for a Lifetime: Planning a Trip through Holy Week — Led by Dean Peter DeVeau, Canon Sue Sommer and others • Health and Wellness — Led by the Health Ministry team and medical professionals • Trinity Teens Youth Group — Meets all four weeks for learning, service and fellowship For Children:...
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Feb21
We have a selection of books and devotional aids for your Lenten study. Stop by today and pick up some materials to help you keep a holy Lent. Need a good book to curl up with this winter? We can special order it for 20% below the cover price. Support Maison de Naissance and pick up a bag of Singing Rooster coffee, too! The Cathedral Bookstore is open after morning services each Sunday.
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Feb21
We are starting a Eucharistic bread ministry. If you have experience in making bread and would like to be a part of this ministry, please contact Canon Sommer at ssommer@ghtc-kc.org or 816.474.8260 ext. 107 no later than Thursday, February 23. We’ll gather on a Saturday (date and location to be announced) to familiarize ourselves with the recipe and technique, bake up some bread and enjoy good fellowship.
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Feb21
Parking passes are available for the parking lot at Washington & 13th Streets (enter on Washington). Please see ushers for a pass. How to use the pass: Put your ticket in (the one you received when you entered the garage) then put the pass in the same slot where you put the ticket. Instructions are also printed on the machine to guide you.
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Feb21
February 22 7 a.m. + 12:05 p.m. + 7 p.m. Proper Liturgy including homily, Imposition of Ashes, Litany of Penitence, Holy Eucharist 7 a.m. • said service 12:05 p.m. • organ and hymns 7 p.m. • choir and hymns Palm fronds to be burned may be left in the basket at the back of the Nave by February 13, or burned at home with the ashes being returned to the ground. If the KCMO school district has a weather-related closing, there will be NO 7 a.m. service; the other services will be held as scheduled.
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Feb14
Readings for February 16, 2012 (Last Sunday after the Epiphany) 2 Kings 2:1-12 Psalm 50:1-6 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 We are in Year B of the Sunday Lectionary (RCL) and Year 2 of the Daily Office Lectionary. Read bulletin inserts from Daily Office Readings for this week Please remember the Cathedral Caregivers’ Prayer List in your prayers this week. The Week Ahead: Sunday 2/12 Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany Monday 2/13 Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818 Tuesday 2/14 Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885 Wednesday 2/15 Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, 1730 Thursday 2/16...
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Feb13
A First Friday Event Friday, March 2 4-7 p.m. Come and enjoy a guided tour of one of the most important living museum of stained glass in this country. View the 18 stained-glass windows and master works in the Cathedral Nave and enjoy selections of English Teas, sandwiches and an assortment of sweets in Founders’ Hall. Free Parking! $10 admission charge Proceeds benefit the proposed 2013 Trinity Choir Tour to the UK For additional information contact: Meribeth Risebig (mrisebig54@gmail.com) or Sharon Cheers (hlmccormic@aol.com). The windows are designed and produced by important national and internationally-known art glassmakers including Louis C. Tiffany...
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Feb13
Many of our beloved Books of Common Prayer need to be replaced. Pew editions of the BCP are $20 each. If you would like to purchase one or more in memory of a deceased loved one, or in thanksgiving for a living loved one, please contact Janet Sweeting at jsweeting@ghtc-kc.org or 816.361.3563. She will place orders periodically over the next several months. A bookplate, memorializing your loved one, will be inserted in the BCP(s).
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Feb06
9:15 a.m. • Founders’ Hall February 12, 19, 26 & March 4 The Politics of Mark Most of us have been brought up with the notion that the Galilee of Jesus’ day was a quiet, rural, backwater of the first century Jewish world. In fact, however, Galilee of that first terrible century of the Common Era was a sophisticated mix of social, religious and political ideologies. And Mark’s community was a part of the mix. In this short course, we will examine some of the passages of the Gospel of Mark that reveal the politics of a new reality called...
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Feb06
As we prepare the way for mission and ministry imperatives in 2012, attentiveness to our financial commitment to Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral becomes ever more important. God has given us so many blessings. Among them, a new heart, a new spirit, the gifts of time and talent and treasure. Thank you for prayerfully considering your 2012 pledge to Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral. Pledge cards are available in the information racks. If you would like offering envelopes, please contact David Stoll (dstoll@ghtc-kc.org or 816-474-8260 ext. 105). Learn more about stewardship at the Cathedral and fill out a pledge form.
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Feb06
Health information privacy laws prohibit hospitals — even Episcopal hospitals — from routinely calling clergy when parishioners are admitted. Go to www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy for more information. If you are hospitalized, please contact the Cathedral 816-474-8260 [for Deacon Jerry Grabher, ext. 111; for Canon Sue Sommer, ext. 107; for Dean Peter DeVeau, ext. 151]. If you cannot place the call yourself, ask a family member, friend, or hospital chaplain to place the call. If you do not receive a visit, most likely your clergy do not know you are hospitalized. Cathedral clergy want to provide pastoral care to hospitalized parishioners; they count...
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Jan30
Congratulations to our new vestry class! The following people were elected to the GHTC vestry at the Annual Meeting on January 29. Mark Galus John Hornbeck (will serve the remaining year in a vacated seat) Bill Hubbard Mike McDonald Larry McMullen Joyce Morrow Peter Norris Pat Wolley John Hornbeck’s term will end in 2013. The other seven will serve through 2015.
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Jan30
The GHTC Annual Meeting was held on Sunday, January 29, 2012. The meeting featured comments from Dean DeVeau, Canon Sommer, Senior Warden David Rice and Treasurer Jim Phillips. You will be able to pick up a new Cathedral Directory over the next few Sundays. (Sorry, but they will not be available electronically.) Read the 2011 Annual Report See the list of new Vestry members
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Jan08
We are publishing an updated Cathedral Directory and need your help! It is time for us to update our database with any changes, additions or deletions that may have occurred in your family. Have you changed your phone number? Cancelled your home phone? E-mail address? Have you recently moved or are you planning to move soon? Are all of your children still at home and are they all included in your membership record? If you have not already informed the church office about changes to your record, please let us know now so that the information is in the 2011...
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Jan08
Offering envelopes are at the back of the nave for anyone who has a 2012 pledge. If there is not a box labeled for you but you would like envelopes, please use the sign up sheet at the back of the nave or contact David Stoll (dstoll@ghtc-kc.org or 816-474-8260 ext. 105).
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