Weekly Announcements
The Lectors for the 10:00 am Mass on 12/22 are:
Youth for Family Sunday
The Lectors for the 4:00 pm Mass on 12/24 are:
Suzette Price, Cn. Terry Cooper (Chalice: Hilary Cox)
The Lectors for the 10:00 pm Mass on 12/24 are:
Erica Warner, John Gummere & Sue Gummere (Chalice: Margaret Nartey)
The Lectors for the 10:00 am Mass on 12/25 are:
Virginia Harmer, Judith Miller & TBD (can you help?) (Chalice: Judith & Virginia)
The Lectors for the 10:00 am Mass on 12/29 are:
Cn. Phil Lewis, Gail Lewis, Susan Remmers & Larry Spears (alternate) (Chalice: Phil)
The Lectors for the 10:00 am Mass on 1/1 are:
Howard Ebersole, Fay Manicke & Ellen Heath (Chalice: Judith Miller + 1 more needed)
The Greeters for Sunday, 12/22 (4th Sunday) are:
Dennie Higgins (Alternate – Samuel Richards)
We will be greening the Cathedral on Saturday, December 21, 2024 from 8:00 am – 1:00 pm. Please speak with Art Powell, or call Patrice in the office, if you would like to help out for a bit that day – many hands make light work! Anything not completed that day will be finished up on Sunday, December 22 after the 10:00am Mass.
Do you have some Green to share? Art Powell and his merry band of helpers will be using lots of greenery around the Cathedral for our Christmas decorating! Do you have pine trees, white pine or holly trees that you could trim and share with the Cathedral? If so, please bring bags of greens to the Cathedral office (on weekdays) or to the Cathedral sacristy courtyard (on Sundays). Thanks for sharing!
Please turn in the names for your Christmas greens/music honoraria TODAY in order for them to be printed in the Christmas service bulletins.
CAST Presents – Join us for a Jazz Experience marking the re-awakening of LIGHT on the winter solstice, December 21st at 3:00 pm. Gwen Laster and Friends will be performing, and admission is by free will offering. See you there!
Annual Meeting Notice – On Sunday, January 19, 2025 Trinity Cathedral will hold its Annual Parish Meeting. There will be one service, at 10:00 am, followed by the meeting. Please stay tuned for more information on how the meeting will be conducted. There are nomination forms for the Vestry on the literature table in the main hallway. If you are the Chair of a Cathedral Commission or organization that submits a report to be included in the annual meeting booklet, please turn your report in to the Cathedral office no later than January 6th. Please send your reports to Patrice D’Angelo at patriceattrinity@aol.com.
The Wednesday Healing Eucharist will be OFF on December 18th (and the following two Wednesdays are Christmas and New Year’s Day, with Mass at 10:00 am both days.) See you January 8th!
There are Advent calendars for adults, teens and youth on the literature table in the main hallway – please take them to enjoy at home!
2025 Stewardship Update – We have received $267,648 in pledges from 71 pledging families, for an average of $3,769.69 per family. Thank you for your generosity! If you would like a pledge card, please ask an Usher.
Altar Guild Shop Update – Check out the many new items – great for gift-giving! Christmas cards and stocking stuffers, too! Weekly specials are waiting for you! The Shop will be open Sundays during Advent.
Need that unique gift? The shop has a variety of nativities & ornaments from around the world.
The ornament tree is waiting to get bare! Also featuring beautiful upcycled jewelry from flatware.
Free gift-wrapping! Shop locally: save gas, time & money!
SPECIAL: “Taste of Joy – Recipes of Trinity Cathedral” Cookbook SALE – now just $7! (Reg. $10.) Cookbook proceeds buy fresh produce for our Food Pantry. Wrapped with a wooden utensil, now $10 – great hostess gifts for Christmas parties. A gift with a cause!
Let’s help our brothers & sisters WARM UP! – Do you have any coats, sweaters, or hoodies that are just sitting in your closet waiting to warm up someone? We are collecting new and gently used clean coats, sweaters and hoodies: adult, teen and children’s sizes. New sock donations welcomed too! Please bring your items by Sunday, December 29th. Thank you in advance for sharing your gift of warmth! (Distribution day is December 30th.)
The next Food Pantry distribution date is – Saturday, December 28th (2nd & 4th Saturdays this month) from 9-11:00 am. Each Thursday, we distribute hot dinners “to go” from 4:15–5:30pm at the Overbrook Avenue entrance as a satellite location for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
If you have not yet pledged for 2025, please consider turning in your card now – We need to assign envelope numbers and get them to everyone to use them in the new year. Also, please use your NEW box of envelopes in 2025 – DO NOT use older boxes. This ensures that all of your donations will be posted to your pledge. Envelope boxes will be on the “ship table” in the Cathedral on December 22nd.