Advent 2023

This year our Advent Booklet has been provided from the Salt Project.

Booklets will be available for pick-up only during Sunday Services throughout the season of Advent.

INTRODUCTION

Advent (from the Latin word adventus, meaning “coming” or “arrival”) is a season dedicated to getting ready for Jesus to arrive. For four weeks, we focus our hearts on two things: first, the birth of Jesus, and second, the promise of God coming again to fill the world with even more hope, peace, joy, and love.

Advent is also a time of year when Mary comes center stage. We see her kneeling beside Jesus in the stable; we hear her sing her powerful song, the Magnificat; and if we’re lucky, we might even get to dress up in blue and play her in the Christmas pageant. Other than that, in many churches today, we don’t really give Mary much thought.

For thousands of years, however, Christians have held a special place in their hearts for Mary. All over the world, she’s captured imaginations as Theotokos (“Bearer of God” or “House of God”). But her identity doesn’t stop there! She’s also known by a host of other names: “Our Lady of Sorrows,” “Our Lady of Guadalupe,” “The First Disciple,” “Our Lady of the Palm,” and many more.

So this Advent season, as we prepare for Jesus to arrive, let’s get to know Mary a little bit better: exploring some of her many names and filling out her ordinary, extraordinary, inspiring portrait – all the while learning how we, too, can become bearers of God.

Christmas Flower Dedications are now live for the 2023 season. Please remember all dedications must be in no later than December 17th, 2023 by 3 pm.

There are two ways to turn in your dedication.

Our online form which can be found Online Christmas Flower order form

or

You can fill out this 2023 Christmas Flowers Order form and turn it in with payment to the front office or with the offering plate at any service from now until Sunday, December 17th, 2023. If you are unable to print this form at home we will have these forms available on Sundays.

Choral Evensong is Sunday, November 26th, 2023 at 5:30 pm in the Main Sanctuary.

Trinity Choir presents a special service of Choral Evensong in celebration of the Feast of Christ The King. Come and experience a beautiful, prayerful service of great music ranging from the 16th to the 20th Centuries as we celebrate the end of the liturgical year and the upcoming season of Advent and Christmas. The choir will sing music by William Mundy, Charles Stanford, William Smith and David Hogan’s “Mt. St. Alban’s Service” canticles which were commissioned especially for the formal dedication of Washington National Cathedral in 1990. Please come and support the amazing Trinity Choir for what promises to be a service of contemplative reflection and expectation.

Here is the complete 2023 Advent Season Calendar for Trinity Episcopal Church.

For a larger version please click here.