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Episcopal Youth Collab
January 10, 2023
Epiphany Session
Through January and February we will offer 7 weeks of food, fun, and fellowship at Trinity Cathedral. All youth from Central Arkansas are invited to join the EYCollab, (sponsored by Trinity, St. Michael's, and St. Margaret's) to explore the ways we can grow as a community and in our faith live in the new year.
Sundays, 4 to 6 p.m., in Chancellors Hall. Bring a friend!
- Jan 15 Foundation
- Jan 22 Compost
- Jan 28 Soil
- Feb 5 Seeds
- Feb 12 Sprouts
- Feb 18 Harvest
Please contact Emma Mitchell (emma@trinitylittlerock.org) for any questions or interest in the group.
Koinonia - Fellowship and Worship
January 10, 2023
All are invited Wednesday, January 18 to share a simple meal provided by the church.
The liturgy after dinner is family friendly and open to all.
Come join us.
4-5:30 Senior Chorister Rehearsal (6th-8th grade)
5:30-6:00 Fellowship Dinner in Morrison Hall
(Dinner provided, donations welcome)
6:00-6:30 Koinonia Eucharist in the Cathedral
Jack's Four Cheese Mac, Roasted Broccoli, Green Salad, Bread, Dessert.
Koinonia will continue through May on the first and third Wednesday of each month.
Please contact Emma Mitchell (emma@trinitylittlerock.org) for any questions.
Twelfth Night a Service of Epiphany Lessons and Carols
January 02, 2023
Sunday, January 8 at 4 p.m.
Prelude: March des Rois Mages - Théodore Dubois
Hymn: What star is this, with beams so bright - Puer nobis
Anthem: I saw three ships - arr. Simon Preston
Anthem: There shall a star (with recit. and trio) - Felix Mendelssohn
Hymn: Brightest and best of the stars of the morning - Morning Star
Anthem: In the bleak midwinter - Harold Darke
Hymn: On this day earth shall ring - Personent hodie
Anthem: The Three Kings - Peter Cornelius
Anthem: Nunc dimittis in G - Herbert Sumsion
Hymn: We three kings of Orient are - Three Kings of Orient
Hymn: How brightly shines the Morning Star - Wie schön leuchtet
Postlude: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223 - Dieterich Buxtehude
Opening for Financial Administrator
November 17, 2022
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, an urban Cathedral with multiple income revenues and expansive property, seeks a Financial Administrator. Primary responsibilities include oversight of the annual budget, bank accounts, taxes, donations, bills, employee benefits plans (health & dental), and payroll for Cathedral & Early Childhood Education Program (ECEP). This includes reconciling all bank accounts and investment accounts, filing all appropriate financial paperwork with state and federal financial institutions, and working closely with auditors. More information can be found in the job description.
The Art of Honoring
September 25, 2022
Saturday, October 29, 2022 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Join artist, Lisa Thorpe, in a day of reflection, remembering and making. You can choose one or more influential person in your life to honor. Bring a photo/s of a beloved to celebrate. If you don’t have a photo chose papers, images and poems from her collection to use in your accordion collage book. You don’t have to bring anything, everything will be provided to make one accordion collage book of honoring. The folded book you make can honor one person or many, it can have two pages or ten, it’s up to you! No art experience needed, appropriate for adults and teens.
At the end of class participants will set up a collective altar in the chapel at Trinity Cathedral. There is a special All Saints Service at Trinity Cathedral Little Rock on Tuesday, November 1st, 7pm. If you would like your book of honoring to be a part of that service you can leave on the decorated altar until the end of that service, others will be invited to bring pictures and flowers to add as well.
$25 materials fee.
$5,000 Challenge Grant
September 25, 2022
A generous donor has pledged to give the Trinity music program $50 for each person attending the Choral Evensong services on October 9th and 16th, up to $5,000. Help us; come and bring friends.
Central Convocation Eucharist
September 01, 2022
Where: St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 20900 Chenal Pkwy
When: Saturday, September 10, at 11:00 a.m.
What: Please join us for a celebration of our shared ministry as a convocation with a special celebration of Bishop Demby. We will gather for worship and fellowship at St. Margaret's, and all are welcome! Childcare will be provided.
Rising From the Ashes
May 17, 2022
In the late evening of August 8, an arsonist started a fire in the vesting room of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, Arkansas. The fire devasted not only the vesting room but burned and smoked damaged most of the vestments held there. Personal clergy vestments were lost as well as the Cathedral’s heritage stoles and chasubles that had been worn for decades by Trinity clergy. These beautiful garments in seasonal colors of purple, red, green, blue, white, and black were worn by clergy at services and imbued with blessings of countless communions, baptisms, weddings, and memorials. The clergy were heartsick and the community was saddened and angered, but one parishioner was inspired.
Fabric artist, Lisa Thorpe, decided that she could make something beautiful rise from the ashes. Remnants of burned vestments were dragged to the Trinity garth to catalog for insurance and then were bound for the dumpster. Thorpe intervened and proposed salvaging some of the damaged material to make new vestments to mark the fire and bring beauty out of the ashes. After cutting away the burned and smoke damaged fabric, Thorpe set about the renewal process.
She washed the remnants multiple times to remove the smell of smoke, then set to work sorting the pieces into color piles. The artist said, “I wanted to use all the colors and patterns that I was able to retrieve; it was important to me that all the vestments be revived and represented if even in the smallest way. The trick was to create something beautiful and meaningful out of the mishmash of colors and textures.”
Thorpe immediately set on the theme of resurrection and the imagery of a phoenix rising from the ashes. “I wanted to represent the paradox of growth from devastation.” She chose to use the classic image of the descending dove to represent rebirth and used that same dove shape in red to represent the spirit rising from the flames. In the end, a stunning set of vestments was created: four clergy stoles, two banners, and insets on the front and back of a new red silk chasuble.
Thorpe says, “When I volunteered, I really didn’t know what I would have to work with or how I would make something from the burned pile, but I jumped in with the Holy Spirit on my side. What I made was so gratifying, and I think is a beautiful representation of the church’s past and now its future, too.”
The new vestments and banners will be blessed and dedicated on Pentecost Sunday, June 5th.
The banners and vestments will be on display in the Morrison Hall foyer between May 19 and Pentecost Sunday, June 5.