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Trinity offers worship in the Episcopal
tradition in a newly restored Gothic Revival
space. Our parish serves a vibrant and
diverse population from across the Greater
Columbus area. Morning and noonday services
are offered daily, and our doors are open
throughout the week for prayer and
meditation. In these and many other ways,
Trinity strives to be a house of prayer for
all people.
Come join us as we explore our faith, renew
our hope, and embody the love of God made
known in Christ.
Sunday Schedule
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist with choir
Child care is available during the
service.
10:30 a.m. fourth Sunday only
Morning Prayer and Holy Communion with
choir
Weekday Schedule (except holidays)
Daily: 8:00 a.m. Morning Prayer
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays:
12:05 p.m. Noonday Prayer
Tuesdays and Fridays:
12:05 p.m. Holy Eucharist
On weekdays, the church is open for prayer and
meditation from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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Rector
The Rev. Richard A. Burnett
Parish Deacon
The Rev. Deacon Joan Grant
Parish Associates
The Rev. Abeoseh M. Flemister
The Very Rev. William H. Petersen
Seminarian
Dr. Richard C. Sauerzopf
Deacon School Student
Joe Mazza
Director of Music/Liturgist
Kevin N. Wines
Senior Warden
Julie Newhall
Junior Warden
Jerry Sellman
Vestry Members
Rhoda Allen, Jim Bliek, Harriet Donaldson,
Peggy Malone, Susan McKinley, Karen Peeler, Alan
Sheppard, Tim Treasure, Mary Wanamaker
Treasurer
Courtney Clark
Rector's Administrative Assistant
Diane Donato
Carillonneur
Nick Tepe
Sextons
Thomas Belcher
Burrell Murray
Financial & Buildings
Administrator
Robert Park
Webmanager
Mary Wanamaker
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The first Friday of every month
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Lenten Bible Exploration
Tuesdays, 7:30 a.m. and 12:40 p.m.
Lenten Taizé Services
Thursdays at 6:15 p.m.
2008 Lenten Lecture Series
Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m.
Holy Week Schedule
March 16-23, 2008
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The Trinity Chimes
March 2008
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Rector's Reflection
Dear People of God:
This month (deep into Lent and during Holy
Week) we enter the decisive season of
Christian life. As people of spiritual
pilgrimage - "people of the Way," as the
earliest followers of Jesus the Risen One
were called - we are open to the joys and
wonders of God who makes all things new and
brings life out of death. As Episcopalians,
we start the journey with discerning and
humble trust, and say with Scripture that
"God was in Christ reconciling the world to
himself." As 21st century people, we look
for a word of hope, renewal, and
transformation to speak in times of genocide,
crushing world debt, and environmental
crisis. In all this we know the decisive
aspect of these days is the cross of Jesus
Christ.
"The theology of the cross announces that God
is found in death, for it is there that
boundaries disappear," writes a young
scholar, Anna Madsen, in her doctoral
dissertation published recently. It is toward
that "announcement" to which Trinity turns
with confidence and hope during March.
On Good Friday, March 21, during The Three
Hours beginning at 12 noon, our theme "And
Darkness Covered the Land" makes this
announcement through music, meditations,
prayer and silence. The Rev. Dr. Mark
Ramseth, president of Trinity Lutheran
Seminary and a cellist since his school days,
will start the four meditations by playing a
mournful cello solo by Pablo Cassals. Bishop
Price, The Open Shelter's Kent Beittel, and I
will also offer meditations on aspects of the
day's theme.
Those drawn to the Way of Jesus the Risen One
learn that the decisive quality of the
announcement "God is found in death" does not
signal completion until the Third Day - that
welcomed happy morning - when death can no
longer hold our God, and all the choirs of
heaven and earth sing praises.
Nevertheless, we do well to savor the public
meaning of his death and respond to God's
invitation of love from the cross. This Lent
and during Holy Week we might meditate on the
stunning proposals rendered by the Italian
film director and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini:
All his wounds are open to the sun
and he dies under the eyes
of everyone: even his mother
under his breast, belly and knees,
watches his body suffer.
Dawn and dusk cast light on his open arms . .
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Why was Christ exposed on the Cross?
Oh, the heart shudders at the naked
body of the youth . . .atrocious
offence to its raw modesty . . .
The sun and the gazes!
You must expose yourself (is this what the
poor nailed-up Christ teaches?),
the clarity of the heart is worthy
of every sneer, every sin,
every more naked passion . . .
(is this what the Crucifix means?
sacrifice every day the gift
renounce every day forgiveness
cast yourself ingenuous over the abyss).
We will be offered on the cross,
on the pillory, between the pupils
limpid with ferocious joy,
leaving open to irony the drops
of blood from the breast to the knees,
gentle and ridiculous, trembling
with intellect and passion in the play
of the heart burning from its fire,
testifying to the scandal.
-Pier Paolo Pasolini
Translated by Michael Hardt's, in A Shock to
Thought: Expression after Deleuze and
Guattari, edited by Brian Massumi (Routledge,
2002).
May we learn to know God's love more fully in
this holy season.
Faithfully yours,
Richard A. Burnett
Rector
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Ohio Interfaith Power and Light
Ohio Interfaith Power and Light invites the
public to hear speakers from a variety of
religious traditions address climate change.
The symposium, which will be held from 1:00
to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 15, 2008, at
Broad Street Presbyterian Church, 760 East
Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, is a response
to the rapidly growing interest in climate
change among people of faith.
This is the premier public event of the newly
forming Ohio Interfaith Power and Light, a
state affiliate of The Regeneration Project's
Interfaith Power and Light campaign. The
Reverend Sally Bingham, founder and president
of The Regeneration Project, will give a
keynote address. Also speaking during the
program will be the Reverend Rebecca
Tollefson, Executive Director of the Ohio
Council of Churches; Al Compaan, Chair of the
Physics and Astronomy Department at the
University of Toledo and leader of a research
group focused on thin-film photovoltaic solar
cells; and David Wilhelm, founder of Adena
Ventures, a venture capital fund targeting
central Appalachia, which includes the
southeastern Ohio area in which he was raised.
There will be a freewill offering during the
program. For more information about the
symposium, visit: http://ohipl.blogspot.com/
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From Deacon School Student Joe Mazza
This past Deacon's School weekend was a very
busy one for me, but proved to be a time for
some critical self-examination.
To begin with, we continued our exploration
of the Old Testament with lectures on the
Psalms and a closer look at Abraham. I have
mentioned before that I was surprised at the
way my interest in the Old Testament grew as
I began to spend time with it, and I looked
forward to more study. Well, the same
applies to the Psalms. I had always thought
of the Psalms as something that I read on
Sunday morning, but didn't really understand.
Well, after one lecture, I don't pretend to
have a complete understanding now, but
something in me has unlocked the desire to
explore the Psalms further. Hebrew poetry
says so much! Psalms speak praise, anger,
doubt, thanksgiving and much more with such
passion. I have discovered something
wonderful that was there all the time.
As for critical self-examination, I had
occasion to examine with some of the other
students a pitfall for many people when they
begin an involvement in ministry, namely my
proclivity toward over-booking and
over-loading myself.
I titled my part of the discussion "My friend
Joe who can't say no." I am retired, and I
act as though I have nothing but time. This
often results in my having to cancel or
adjust a part of my schedule. This then
results in feelings of guilt. I joked that I
keep a calendar, but never let it stand in
the way of over-booking myself. Others in
the discussion said they had varying degrees
of the same problem.
We have had lectures about not
over-committing and about having adequate
Sabbath time. It's a good lesson for
everyone, but I hadn't paid it much attention
until I was almost forced to cancel part of a
visit on the occasion of the birthday of one
of my grandchildren, which is something I
never want to have happen. That was a wakeup
call to re-examine my planning methods. To
use a phrase I used to dislike intensely when
I was in business, "I'm working on it!" It
is good sometimes to "put yourself out there"
and allow those you trust to see your burdens
and concerns. My friends at Deacon's School
are there for me, and I for them.
In addition to leading that discussion, I was
assigned to preach a sermon during Evening
Prayer. I decided to preach on the Old
Testament lesson from the Book of Haggai.
I preached about the people returning from
exile and becoming so obsessed with their own
greed and material wealth that they leave God
out of their lives. The prophet Haggai
reminds them that they need to put God, not
material wealth, first in their lives. I
went on to talk about how we sometimes do the
same things in our own lives today; how some
things are just as out of balance today as
they were in 520 BCE!
Afterward, Karl Ruttan, the dean of the
Anglican Academy, joked that it was the best
sermon on Haggai he'd ever heard - because it
was the ONLY sermon on Haggai he had ever heard.
All in all, it was another exceptional
weekend experience.
In closing, I would like to invite you to
read a Psalm that has become one of my
favorites. I read it often in times of
reflection, for thanksgiving, instruction
reassurance and trust in the Lord. It is
Psalm
34. If you read it, I would be
interested to hear your comments on whether
it held any meaning for you as well.
Joe Mazza
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Worship, Music & Art at Trinity Church
The Lenten season, culminating in Easter
Sunday, March 23 brings many opportunities
for worship, enhanced by art at Trinity. The
"Taizé and Soup" Services each Thursday
evening at 6:15pm in the chapel provide a
quiet and calming ending to the day. OSU
graduate student Danielle Miller provides
lovely flute music to accompany the simple
songs and chants. Soup, bread and fellowship
shared in the sanctuary send us home about
7:15 pm, refreshed in body and soul.
"Windows, Doors and Portals," the Lenten
lecture series continues at 12:30 each
Wednesday in the Parish Library. Holy Week
and Easter services, all with beautiful music
and liturgy, complete the worship for the
month.
On Saturday, March 15, "Trinity Goes to the
Opera" will again convene at the Crosswoods
movie theater in Worthington at 1:30 p.m. for
the live Met HD broadcast of Benjamin
Britten's PETER GRIMES. Tickets may be
purchased on line at http://www.metoperafamily.org
(ask
Kevin Wines, Karen Peeler, or Harriet
Donaldson for details), and meet at the
Panera next door at 12:30 p.m. for a
"preview" if you wish! [editor's note: In
my opinion, Peter Grimes is the greatest
opera ever written! And those of you who
love orchestral music will recognize
Britten's four Sea Interludes taken from this
opera. - K. Wines] Also, on March 22
Wagner's TRISTAN AND ISOLDE is showing at the
same cinema. (actually this opera starts at
12:30 p.m.). Singer and productions are
top-notch with subtitles in English (and
popcorn!), assuring a great time is had by all!
Stuart Hobbs is heading an exploratory
committee to develop a Contemporary Worship
Service in Trinity. If you have ideas,
requests, or want to participate in the
planning, see Stuart.
- Karen Peeler,
WMA Chair
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Thanks for reading The Chimes!
Thanks for taking the time to read the Trinity
Chimes. We hope you have been delighted,
informed
and challenged by what you have read here.
If you
are new to Trinity, we encourage you to join
us at
any of our special events or worship
services. If
you are already a member of the Trinity
community,
please consider forwarding this newsletter to a
friend who might be interested in learning more
about us.
If you have any comments, or ideas for future
issues, please contact Kevin Wines at k-wines@trinitycolumbus.org.
Frances Bennekamper will continue to
coordinate the
popular "News from the Pews" feature. Please
share
any news items that you would like to have
included
in this column (births, graduations, or any
significant life event that you would like to
share
with your parish family) with Frances, or email
news@trinitycolumbus.org.
Have a blessed Lent and Easter Season, and
see you next month!
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