​Servant God, grant us opportunity,
give us willingness
to serve you day by day;
that what we do
and how we bear each other’s burdens,
may be our sacrifice to you.
This we ask through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Amen.
The Book of Prayer, New Zealand, page 570

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ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE AVAILABLE at NOON on February 17th: YouTube
Diocesan restrictions on indoor worship & activities have been extended through Palm Sunday, March 28th, 2021. They will be governed by the level of virus spread in each county within the diocese.  These levels are tracked on a spreadsheet posted every Wednesday afternoon by diocesan staff. 
Diocesan statistics are updated regularly.
3 ways to join our worship!

Please join us for worship from Grace-Winfield & Trinity-ArkCity
​every Sunday at 9 AM Central Time
(except for the first Sunday of each month)
Our worship will be available on YouTube  at 9am, on Facebook at 10am, & on Zoom at 10 am.
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Holy Eucharist is our primary weekly worship service
Alternative worship opportunities are evening Compline and Sunday Morning Prayer

Early Christians observed “a season of penitence and fasting” in preparation for the Paschal feast, or Pascha (Book of Common Prayer, pp. 264-265). The season now known as Lent (from an Old English word meaning “spring,” the time of lengthening days) has a long history. Originally, in places where Pascha was celebrated on a Sunday, the Paschal feast followed a fast of up to two days. In the third century this fast was lengthened to six days. Eventually this fast became attached to, or overlapped, another fast of forty days, in imitation of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. The forty-day fast was especially important for converts to the faith who were preparing for baptism, and for those guilty of notorious sins who were being restored to the Christian assembly. In the western church the forty days of Lent extend from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, omitting Sundays. The last three days of Lent are the sacred Triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Today Lent has reacquired its significance as the final preparation of adult candidates for baptism. Joining with them, all Christians are invited “to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word” (BCP, p. 265).
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February 14th, Last Sunday after Epiphany

February 7th, 5th Sunday after Epiphany

January 31st, 4th Sunday after Epiphany

January 24th, 3rd Sunday after Epiphany

January17th, 2nd Sunday after Epiphany

January 10th, First Sunday after Epiphany

January 3rd, Second Sunday after Christmas
You may join with other parishioners on Zoom to watch or listen to worship together.  If you do not have a computer at home, you can call in to the Zoom conference on a phone and listen.  

Or you may join us live on YouTube or Facebook.

If you don't make it at 9 AM, you can watch the video anytime after that on YouTube or Facebook.  The Zoom gathering will remain open for those who wish to join until noon.  After the worship service is over, the Zoom room will become our Virtual Coffee Hour space.
Links to YouTube Channel
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 ​(easy to navigate PDF)
​Daily Morning Prayer, Rite II - page 75
​Noonday Prayer - page 103
​Daily Evening Prayer, Rite II - page 115
Compline - page 127
​Prayers & Thanksgivings - page 810
Psalms of David. - page 585
​YOU MAY ADD TO OUR PRAYER LIST BY CLICKING THE WORD "INTERCESSIONS"
3 ways to join our worship!

​Instructions below are NOT for National Cathedral Sundays!
If you do not have a Facebook account, you should still be able to visit our pages and watch it.
If you have a Facebook account, you can set a reminder about a video from our page to pop up as a notification.  Here are the instructions for that.
When a new video premieres on Facebook for the first time, you can watch it live along with others.
To get a reminder about an upcoming Premiere or New Release:
  1. Go to the Page for the video you'd like to watch. You can also click Search at the top of your screen and type the show's name to find it.
  2. On the show's Page, you'll see a scheduled live post (example: [Page] plans to premiere a video). On this post, click Get Reminder.
  3. You'll receive two notifications before the Premiere or New Release begins. Click to join the broadcast lobby before the show begins. You can like, share and comment in real time during the broadcast.

Icon links directly to our channel

Please subscribe!
(NB: the Zoom "room" will be open from just before 11 until about noon each Sunday, except on first Sundays of the month, when it will be open about 11.30am, after the WNC service has concluded)

Meeting ID and password have been sent to you via Mail Chimp for added security
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To join the Zoom worship by telephone, dial the number below
(NOTE long distance charges may apply if you are using a landline):
        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID and password have been sent to you via Mail Chimp for added security


​OUR ALTERNATIVE SUNDAY WORSHIP

Diocesan Requirements:

MASKS are REQUIRED
for everyone older than 2 years

6 FOOT physical distancing is REQUIRED
by family unit of persons normally living together

Worship Spaces will be marked
for physical distancing

A record of all persons attending
shall be kept by each Parish

LCMP will be cancelled for precipitation &
when temperatures near freezing with wind chill.





8:30 pm, Mondays through Saturdays

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TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH FACEBOOK PAGE

First Sunday of each month

We began the pandemic year by joining with the Washington National Cathedral for their Sunday service at 10.15 am (Central time)

As we developed our own recording and broadcasting abilities, we have adopted the WNC Sunday service for our First Sunday of each month.

​The WNC services are available online at their YouTube Channel.

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ZOOM COFFEE HOUR will begin at 11.30 am on these Sundays, after the WNC service has concluded.

​WNC Coloring pages are here