The Trinity Church e-Tower

for

Maundy Thursday at Emmanuel Newport, April 2, 2026

6pm Worship

Good Friday at Trinity, April 3, 2026

12pm and 7pm Worship

Easter Sunday

April 5, 2026

8am and 10am Worship

11am Easter Egg Hunt and Festive Coffee Hour

There will be no E-Tower this Friday.

A Message from the Rector:

In our Lenten series over the last four weeks we have had many holy conversations about death and dying. It has been a blessing to gather with some of the members of this community and consider what our faith teaches us about death, what our funerals might look like, and how we grieve. We will have our last class this evening - a conversation about how we remember those we love and how we want to be remembered. It is a fitting topic for Holy Week, when tomorrow evening we will remember how Jesus invited us to remember him through Eucharist, and gave us the mandate to love one another.

As we walk through Holy Week together, I want to share a poem that I offered in our class last week about grieving. Jan Richardson's book "A Cure for Sorrow" is a beautiful book of poetry about grief and loss. This particular poem below felt just right for this week, while we hold vigil with Jesus in his death. It is spiritually challenging and important to rest in this week of our Christian story without rushing to the resurrection. In these coming days, we grieve. We wait.

I hope to see you tomorrow at Emmanuel and Friday at Trinity, and when the time comes on Sunday morning, I look forward to our joyful proclamation that Christ is Risen!

With gratitude,

Meaghan

A Blessing for the Brokenhearted

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau

Let us agree

for now

that we will not say

the breaking

makes us stronger

or that it is better

to have this pain

than to have done

without this love.

Let us promise

we will not

tell ourselves

time will heal

the wound,

when every day

our waking

opens it anew.

Perhaps for now

it can be enough

to simply marvel

at the mystery

of how a heart

so broken

can go on beating,

as if it were made

for precisely this—

as if it knows

the only cure for love

is more of it,

as if it sees

the heart’s sole remedy

for breaking

is to love still,

as if it trusts

that its own

persistent pulse

is the rhythm

of a blessing

we cannot

begin to fathom

but will save us

nonetheless.

by Jan Richardson

A Cure for Sorrow

Easter Egg Hunt and

Festive Coffee Hour!

After the 10am service on Easter Sunday children are invited to join us in the churchyard for an Easter Egg Hunt. People of all ages can come to the Hawes Room for a coffee hour hosted by the vestry!

Worship Participants

Thursday, April 2nd

at Emmanuel Church, 6pm

Celebrant: The Rev. Della Wager Wells

Preacher: The Rev. Canon Meaghan Kelly Brower

Assistant Clergy: The Rev. Noël Bailey Robinson

Good Friday, April 3rd

Celebrant: The Rev. Canon Meaghan Kelly Brower

Preacher: The Rev. Della Wager Wells

Assistant Clergy: The Rev. Noël Bailey Robinson

Co-Music Director & Organist: Fredrick Jodry

Musicians: The Trinity Choir

Acolyte & Crucifer: 12:00 & 7:00 pm Larry Pulice

Lector & Intercessor: 12:00 pm Ann Souder; 7pm Diane Myers

Ushers: 12:00 pm Norris Commodore, Richard Alexander;

7:00 pm Karina Valencia, Robert Smith

Altar Society: 12:00 pm Mary Sinnott, Jeanne Kelley; 7:00 pm Brad Carter

Worship Participants

Sunday, April 5th

Preacher & Celebrant: The Rev. Canon Meaghan Kelly Brower

Assistant Clergy: The Rev. Noël Bailey Robinson

Co-Music Director & Organist: Fredrick Jodry

Musicians: The Trinity Choir

Acolyte & Crucifer: 8:00 & 10:00 a.m. Larry Pulice

Communion Chalice: Phoebe Livingston

Lector & Intercessor: 8:00 am Mary de Pinho; 10:00 am Teddy Sargent

Ushers: 10 :00 am Phillip Wilson, Geer Isdale, Brad Beebe,

Scott Bartlett, Debbie Bartlett

Altar Society: 8:00 am Mary de Pinho, Helen Brennan, Debbie Bartlett;

10:00 am Jeanne Kelley, Heather Ogletree

Tour Guide: Pam and Ray Fisher

LENTEN PROGRAM

Holy conversations about death and dying

The Lenten Series will conclude tonight Wednesday, April 1st.

The meal will begin at 5:30pm in the Hawes Room, and the program will run from 6-7:30 pm.

In our final session we will be talking about how we remember those we love. We asked participants to consider what they would want their epitaph to be as we prepare for the last session. We will consider Holy Week and how Jesus

Upcoming Events and Ministry Opportunities

Our Legacy:

A Cherished, Historic

Treasury of Silver.

Among the many physical and tangible assets

and treasures that Trinity has been blessed with over the centuries is a collection of fine silver. Since 1703, with the first gift of a chalice and patten sent by the governing body of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the church has been the beneficiary of blessings in the form of memorial, gifted and commissioned liturgical silver that is still in regular use today.

Since the first recorded evidence in 1880—and likely before—a quiet, committed and faithful group of parishioners have prepared, maintained and cared for our sacred silver—vessels and other precious items—lovingly stewarding theircondition and availability for all manner of worship services and rites of the church. The Altar Society of Trinity Church is responsible for this collection that represents significant artistic, historical and community value—serving as enduring “crown jewels” that have recorded our history of faith and devotion for over three centuries.

On April 12th, a “Silver Sunday” presentation will take place, after coffee hour, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, where we will have the opportunity to see, learn about and discuss some highlighted items in depth. Our very own Mary Sinnott, longtime “Directress” of the Altar Society and visiting silver expert Spencer Gordon, will bring these curated items from our silver collection to life, in terms of their significance, provenance, quality and the underlying human story. Please join us as we experience together a rare glimpse into our past and the faithfully departed who inhabit it!

—Silver Sunday is Sunday, April 12, 2026—

This week at Trinity

Wednesday, April 1

12 p.m.- Healing Service

12 p.m.- Men's Group

5:30 p.m.- Lenten Program

7 p.m.- Trinity Choir Practice

Thursday, April 2

6 p.m.- Joint Maundy Thursday Service

at Emmanuel Church Newport

Friday, April 3

12 p.m. and 7 p.m. Good Friday Service at Trinity

Sunday, April 5

Easter Sunday

8 a.m. and 10 a.m. - Worship

11 a.m. - Festive Coffee Hour and Easter Egg Hunt

Monday, April 6

5 p.m. Community Meal

Wednesday, April 8

12 p.m.- Healing Service

12 p.m.- Men's Group

Thursday, April 9

1 p.m. Prayer Shawl Group

7 p.m.- Trinity Choir Practice

Sunday, April 12

8 a.m. - Worship

10 a.m. - Worship with Holy Baptism

9 a.m. - Bible Study in the Glenn Family Center

10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. - Sunday School in the Glenn Family Center

12 -1 p.m. - Trinity 300 Event: Silver Sunday

We give thanks this month for the April birthdays of Joe Palumbo, Cissie Ferzoco, Robert Howe, Colton Howe, Robert Smith (Bob), Molly Chamberlain, Owen Palumbo, Scott Bartlett, Robert Hyde, Morrison Wintersteen, Jaxson de Pinho, Fredrick Green, Carol Parfet, Ann Souder, John Oppel, Jeremy Wintersteen, Jane Burrows, Pam Giroux, Alexa Collins, Avery Collins, Jack Matheson-Bradley, and Helen Glover.

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