Holy Trinity Times Monthly Newsletter of Church of the Holy Trinity May 2017 Mark Your Calendars! 5.9 St. Elizabeth Guild Prayer Shawl 5.13 Daughters of the King Meeting. 5.14 Happy Mother’s Day Recently we celebrated the art and faithful witness of Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), an Anglican English poet of the 19th century. She is one of my personal favorites and we have a couple of her poems set to music in our hymnal, “Love came down at Christmas, love all 5. 21 Family Fun Day!! lovely, love divine” and “In the bleak midwinter.” Rossetti was well received in her day 4 pm Parish Hall and interest in her continues in our time. She was neither a recluse, like our own Emily Dickinson, nor a socialite or rebel. She came from a gifted family full of scholars and Rogation Sunday & intellectuals. Her brother, Dante, was the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a Blessing of the garden movement of painters, poets and critics. 5.29 Memorial Day The Poetry Foundation writes of Christina: [s]he was also influenced by the poetics of the Office Closed Oxford Movement, as is documented in the annotations and illustrations she added to her copy of John Keble’s The Christian Year (1827) and in her reading of poetry by Isaac Williams and John Henry Newman. For more than twenty years, beginning in 1843, she worshiped at Christ Church, Albany Street...The importance of Rossetti’s faith for her life and art can hardly be overstated. More than half of her poetic output is devotional, and the works of her later years in both poetry and prose are almost exclusively so. The inconstancy of human love, the vanity of earthly pleasures, renunciation, individual unworthiness, and the perfection of divine love are recurring themes in her poetry. Her most famous poem is a longer piece called Goblin Market. Here’s a small but poignant sample of her work, entitled “What are Heavy?” What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow: 6001 A St. Lincoln NE 68510 What are brief? today and tomorrow: 402.488.7139 What are frail? spring blossoms and youth: [email protected] What are deep: the ocean and truth. Jesus is the perfection of divine love, as Rossetti knew, and is the way, the truth and the life for all of us. Alleluia, Christ is risen!! From the Church Register Baptism: Greyson Eli Stockwell, April 30, 2017 Deaths: Dr. Charles Barton, April 19, 2017 Robert Cooley 1/19/2017 May light perpetual shine upon them. Monday–Friday 9:00 am–1:00 pm May Birthdays Closed on May 29-Memorial Day 8 Jean Davie Closed on LPS inclement weather days 13 Robert Hillyer, Jr. 14 Mary Ann Boman 17 Angee Dostal 17 Kyan Machmer Frederick Holy Trinity Times & Bulletin 17 Curt Youngman Deadlines 18 Mattie Davis Please send your articles 18 Sharon Ellermeier for the next newsletter by 20 Loretta Love the 20th of the month. 20 Donna Kahler Bulletin articles can be 21 Rev. Susanna DesMarais submitted as needed but 23 Helen Harwager will only be run as space 24 Russell Gasper allows for the following If your birthday is not on our list, please call the Sunday. church office and we’ll be happy to add you. Please email them to [email protected]. All meetings (2 or more people) and events in the church must be scheduled in advance through the office. Building use forms are available at the parish office and on our website. Please continue to let the office know when you are in the building. Congratulations 2017 Graduates! Miles Wilkins from Lincoln East High School. Adam Spencer from South Dakota State University and will also be commissioned in the US Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. 2 Special thanks this month to the following ministers: • Curt Butler and Ed Love for gracing us so many times with the gift of his music this month. • All our gardeners who have greeted spring with new mulch and lots of pruning. • Nancy Youngman and all the ringers for another year of wonderful music • Amy Bloomquist and Nancy Youngman for another full year of children’s ringers topped off by playing at the 10:30 service on April 30! YAY for the mini ding-a-ling-ers! • Mary Lu for Easter breakfast! A wonderful refreshment between two glorious services. How You Can Help Holy Trinity in the Future Just add a few lines to your will. A will is one of the easiest and most effective ways to distribute your estate and it can also be a very effective way to impact the future of this church. Holy Trinity has four areas for endowment bequests; a general fund, a maintenance fund, a music fund, and a youth fund. A bequest to any of these funds helps insure that Holy Trinity will continue in ministry into the 22nd century. Income from the endowment is a crucial addition to our budget. You can make a difference. by including Holy Trinity in your estate plans. It is as simple as adding a few words to your will and can be a huge benefit to future generations of parishioners. In addition this entitles you to membership in the Holy Trinity Legacy Society and your name will be added to the Legacy Society plaque in the foyer. Please call me if you have any questions, and thank you. The Giving Cart: A Tower of Diapers! In May, we are very excited to team up with Lutheran Family Services to collect disposable diapers that will be given to families here in Lincoln. Let's build a tower of diapers around the Giving Cart. Our theme for April and May is: Luv 'em, Hug 'em, and Pamper 'em. Get it? Holy Trinity's generosity has touched and continues to touch so many lives in our community. Thank you. 3 Lincoln Choral Artists Sowing the Seed of Music in Nebraska Sunday, May 7, 3pm at O’Donnell Auditorium, Nebraska Wesleyan The Lincoln Choral Artists will present a concert "Sowing the Seeds of Music in Nebraska" to celebrate the 150th anniversary of our state. Joining the Lincoln choir, will be community choirs from Grand Island and North Platte, as well as Lincoln's community handbell choir, Bell-issimo, directed by Nancy Youngman. Several of the Holy Trinity ringers play with this group. In addition to solo numbers during the concert, Bell-issimo will be playing in the foyer as the audience arrives. The grand finale of the concert will include 100 singers, Bell- issimo, and piano and organ. Contact Nancy or Curt Butler for tickets or call 402-405-8070. They will also be available at the door. Come and celebrate Nebraska with glorious music! St. Elizabeth’s Guild Next Meeting & News Salad Luncheon Tuesday, May 9 at noon Salad Luncheon held by St. Elizabeth’s Guild will be on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 12:00 noon in the Parish Hall. The hostesses will be Mary Belle Beach and Darlene Barker. Please bring a salad to share; sign-up in the foyer. EVERYONE is welcome to attend this lunch meeting. It is a great time to invite your friends. If you need a ride, or have questions, contact Marlene Perkins (402-489- 20156) or Kathleen Jacobson (402-438-1428) Due to severe weather conditions the January meeting was cancelled. It was generally agreed at the February lunch that the Guild would meet in June and July and eliminate the January and February winter meetings. Dates for the summer meetings are Tuesday, June 13, and Tuesday, July 11 at 2:30 pm in the Parish Hall. These summer meetings will feature coffee, hot and cold tea, and dessert. St. Elizabeth’s Guild sponsored a full breakfast between the church services on Palm Sunday April 9, 2017. This was Bishop Barker’s yearly visit which made the breakfast even more special. Thank you to everyone who helped out by bringing food and serving and cleaning up. Please continue to save your Barcodes, UPCs & Box Tops! Please continue to collect and trim “Best Choice” brand barcodes, “Box Tops for Education”, and “Labels For Education”. We are collecting them for Clinton Elementary School and receive money for each label and top collected. NOTE: Please collect and trim the entire label/box top; we won’t get credit for partial pieces. Please see the collection boxes in the foyer for examples. Many thanks from St. Elizabeth Guild. St. Monica's Elves need your help! As you travel this summer, please remember our donation box in the Foyer. We are collecting shampoos, soaps, lotions, cosmetic samples, toothbrushes and toothpaste (we are always short of toothbrushes), cosmetic bags, etc. through November for our Christmas Gift Outreach. For health/safety reasons, we cannot accept opened/used items. Questions? Contact Elf Manager Linda Cumming at 402-488-8556. 4 Camp Canterbury July 24 - 28, 2017 Camp Canterbury is for youth entering 4 - 12th grade. Registration runs April 30 - July 3 http://campcanterbury.episcopal-ne.org/Registration.html Early registrations are greatly appreciated- Camp costs $250/camper - scholarships available Ongoing Bible Study Group Wednesdays at 9:00 am in the Memorial Room (Conf. room) The Bible is not just another dry dusty book; it is the story of our salvation and as disciples and followers of Jesus Christ we find hope and life in the scriptures and stories. Join us on for our lively and spirited discussion of the upcoming weeks Holy Scripture reading. Coffee provided! 5 Family Sunday Funday ~ Sunday, May 21 @ 4pm Rogation Sunday Last one for this academic year.