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Notes from Trinity August, 2017

Trinity Parish

Staff

Dr. Steven McDonald, D.M.A.,

Music Director

Master of Ceremonies – Bob Ryan

Master of Ceremonies – Ron Furrer

Senior Warden Ross Donnell

Home – 913-652-9784

Junior Warden Ron Furrer

Home – 816-213-3412

Elizabeth Thompson, Treasurer

Janie Burgett, Secretary

Rector’s Thoughts

Please note the new schedule that identifies when

we can expect Morning Prayer and when we can

expect Holy Communion.

Other articles are welcome in the newsletter but

will have to be produced by one of you. Please let

me know if you are interested; and I will help get

your offering into the newsletter.

“Well-Travelled Reflections” is set aside for

such volunteer offerings for which I am very

grateful. These offerings may often be anonymous.

Announcements

Vestry Meetings are held at 12:00 am on the second

Sunday of each month in the Undercroft.

Preliminary Liturgical Schedules for the upcoming

month are available on the table in the Narthex on

the second Sunday of each month.

We are now collecting food for the Salvation Army

in Grandview. They are very appreciative of the

quality and quantity of food donated by Trinity.

Please be generous.

We will start our Fall Adult Education

Program on September 11th.

Please join us at 09:00 am on

Sundays for general discussions.

The Bible Study will resume soon. When it does

please join us at 11:00 am on Wednesdays.

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Well-travelled Reflections

The Feast of Corpus Christi

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; John 1:53

The Feast of Corpus Christi, which is translated as the Body of Christ, is traditionally Celebrated on the

Thursday after Trinity Sunday. However, both the Roman Catholics and Some Anglo-Catholics Celebrate

the Solemnity on the Sunday following Trinity.

The Solemnity was promulgated by

Pope Urban in 1264 to increase the devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to offer another celebration of

the Holy Eucharist that was not tied to Holy Week.

Now we have all the history out of

the way there are several questions for us to consider not least of which is how this Solemnity can and

should affect your life as a Christian.

First, we might consider what at

first seems to be a simple question? If we are Celebrating the Corpus Christi that is the Body and Blood of

Christ in the Sacrament of Holy Communion, is that the only Corpus

Christi we are honoring on this day?

That may seem to be an odd question. I just explained that in 1264 the day was set aside right

after we had celebrated the most Holy Trinity to increase our devotion to the Sacrament, but we also

understand the Corpus Christi to be not only the Sacrament, but also the

Body of Christ that is the Church

and the Body of Christ that is the Glorified Resurrected and Ascended

Body of Christ that sits at the right hand of the Father.

If all this seems a little confusing

let's consider this analogy. Just as with the Blessed Trinity we work very hard at trying to consider how

the three is one and is the one in three. So too now we are trying to consider the celebration of the

unknowable. Rather just as with the Blessed Trinity we can perceive

the manifestations or energies, but not the actual inner life or the Blessed Trinity.

Now with the Body of Christ we find

the same difficulty. We can and do believe in all three of the

manifestations of the Body of Christ, but we certainly cannot explain them. So this day of Celebration is

one that Like Trinity Sunday we Glorify the Mystery and worship the

Divinity.

My favorite reflection connected to Corpus Christi is this:

We gather as the Body of Christ, the Church, to be feed the Body of

Christ, His Body and Blood so that we can grow ever more into the

fullness of the Glorified Body of Christ as He sits at the right hand of Father as Our Sacrifice for sin and

our supreme example of what a human is to be and how we are to act.

Anonymous

Religion is not a way of looking at “certain” things; It is a “certain” way of looking at all things.

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Pray for those in Adversity

Julie Aghanya Linda Allen

Christian Atwood David Bagley

Brad Bamman Norman Behymer

Eleanore Carder Katherine Cooper

Madie Crumkamp Carroll Culmsee

Jane Culmsee Carson Delk-Calkins

Shanna Donnell Brian Duncan

Alec Martin Anthony Evans

Kristen Falk Christy Faris

Cindy Forrestal Gene Funk

Karen Glaser Jess Harnell

Fr. Guy Hawtin Charlotte Hawtin

Sue Hodgkiss Donna Hurley

Steve Inhow Gordon Inman

MaryAnne Jackson Fr. Jim Krehemker

Nathan Kuhn Callie Lubke

Kirsten Marsh Audrey Martin

Yvonne Martin Christopher Masters

Jenny McCoy Michael Mgbike

Terrie Nichols Jessica Noland

Adeline Okonkwo Fr. Michael Orr

Jack Rowan Bp. Stephen Strawn

Michael Summers Sharon Syrcu

Elizabeth Tybinkowski Donna Walden

Alberta Young

Pray for those who are Shut-in

Winnie Furrer Fred Goodwin

Gordon Inman Hod McIntosh

Peggy McIntosh Marcella Shull

August Anniversaries

08/02 Jamie & Elizabeth Thompson

08/16 Dwight & Cindy Sutherland

08/18 Michael & Nancy Jackson

08/19 Ed & Debra Fullington

August Birthdays

08/19 Fr. James Krehemker

08/20 Eleanore Carder

08/24 Hod McIntosh

08/25 Deb Downard

08/26 Dody Ryan

Pray for those in the Military

and Law Enforcement

Tom Austin Chad Bainbridge

Derek Benz Justin Biggs

Berry Brown Will Calkins

Antoinette Covington Kelly Colins

Randy Denwiddy Ed Fullington

Kyle Gavin Robert Gavin

Ben Jakaitis John James

Jonathan Kincaid Curtis Langley

Ben Overesch Michael Tolle

Christopher Sutherland Ed Ziembinski

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Music at Trinity

Music at Trinity, August 2017 Dr. Healey Willan was the subject of last month's

music column, and this month we consider the life

and work of another great contributor to Anglican

church music of the 20th century, Ralph Vaughan

Williams.

Vaughan Williams was born in 1872, and spent

much of his early life devoted to the study of

English folk music, with its emphasis on singable

melody, and to the great Tudor choral church music

of the 16th century. Out of these endeavours came

two of the hallmarks of RVW's own music, namely

tunes that were both distinctive and memorable, and

a keen sense of finding just the right harmony to

support the melody. His great hymn tunes are well

known to us (or should be!): Sine Nomine ("For all

the saints"), Down Ampney ("Come down, o Love

divine"), and Salve Feste Dies ("Hail thee, festival

day"), all of which combine stirring melodies

utterly appropriate to their texts. Likewise, RVW's

harmonizations for the existing tunes of Christe

Sanctorum ("Father, we praise Thee) and Vigiles et

Sancti ("Ye watchers and ye holy ones") serve to

bring even greater emphasis to both the melody and

words. RVW was a strong advocate for unison

singing, and he is very careful to indicate which

parts of his hymns should be sung in harmony. This

method insures a foundation of strong

congregational singing, but with the inclusion of

contrasting choral harmony as well.

In addition to creating some of our finest hymns,

RVW also served as editor of The English Hymnal

of 1906. This was the first British hymnal to move

away from the more Evangelical hymnals then in

use, and one which would incorporate more of an

Anglo-Catholic or "high church" ethos. As well as

adding many plainchant hymns for congregational

use, RVW also tried to eliminate a number of

overly-sentimental Victorian hymns as being

unworthy of worship. He was mostly successful in

this, but some tunes were retained and consigned to

an appendix, which RVW named his "chamber of

horrors"!

Vaughan Williams' many compositions for the

church include hymns, settings of canticles, large

works with orchestra, and a particularly beautiful

unaccompanied setting of the Mass. He believed

that communal singing was the backbone of a

nation's musical art, and both his Bach Choir and

Leith Hill Singers were comprised of volunteer

singers. Interestingly, although RVW's father was

an Anglican priest, the composer remained a

committed agnostic throughout his life. He

contributed enormously to both the quality of

church music, and to increasing the level of its

performance.

Steven McDonald

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Liturgical Assignments

Faith is not about everything turning out okay; Faith is about being okay, no matter how things turn out. The frailty of a faith is shown by culture’s effect on it; The virility of a faith is shown by its effect on culture.

Date 8/6/2017 8/13/2017 8/20/2017 8/27/2017

Christian Day Transfiguration Trinity 9 Trinity 10 Trinity 11

Altar Guild Florence and Nancy Elizabeth and Dody Elizabeth and Dody Janie and Linda

Greeters Bob Nield Herb Coale Linda Allen Ed & Debra

Color White Green Green Green

8:00 AM Service Morning Prayer Holy Communion Holy Communion Morning Prayer

Celebrant Ron Furrer Fr. Paul Kolisch/Ron Furrer Bp. Stephen Strawn/Ron Furrer Ron Furrer

Epistler/Server Dwight Sutherland Dwight Sutherland Dwight Sutherland Dwight Sutherland

10:15 AM Service Morning Prayer Holy Communion Holy Communion Morning Prayer

Celebrant Bob Ryan Fr. Paul Kolisch/Bob Ryan Bp.Stephen Strawn/Bob Ryn Bob Ryan

Epistler/Server Rein Stall Rein Staal Rein Staal Rein Stall

Sermon Bob Ryan Fr. Paul Kolisch Bp. Stephen Strawn Bob Ryan

Sunday Services for August 2017

Date 8/24/2017

Christian Day St. Bartholomew

Altar Guild Elizabeth and Dody

Color Red

Service Time

Celebrant Bob Ryan

Epistler/Server Ron Furrer

Sermon

Weekday Services

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July Pictures We had the blessing of a wedding and two new

members! Welcome you two. 😊

We met Father Pinto and Dora and they have agreed

to join our church. We feel the blessings shining

down on us from our Lord God.

And of His fullness have all we received, and grace

for grace. John 1:16