Blue Advent Dec 8 at 5 pm Trinity Episcopal Church

For many of us, the holidays are a challenging time, particularly for those who have lost loved ones or suffered illness over the past year. Many of us feel the weight of the world’s ills heavily, and cannot participate easily in the festivities around us. We will acknowledge that this season of advent is filled with a range of emotions, hopes, and fears. Trinity Episcopal Church opens its historic Chapel, located at 81 Elm Street in Concord, to offer a service of “Blue Advent” to the whole community on Sunday, December 8 at 5 pm. “Blue Advent” offers us a chance to pray and sing, to hope, and to lay our burdens down as we await the day of Christ’s birth. Please join us and invite family and friends for whom this quiet time of prayer and music may be a healing and welcome experience in the midst of holiday busyness. A casual soup supper in Trinity’s Parish Hall will follow the “Blue Advent” service.

Trinity Episcopal Church will also host a week of Advent Vespers for the community beginning Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 5 pm, and continuing each night through Dec. 23. Advent preparation invites us to stillness, to quiet moments, to candle-lit darkness. This is a different kind of preparation for Christmas: the preparation of our hearts.

Trinity’s rector, the Rev. Nancy J. Hagner, invites all in the community to join us in quiet reflection as we let go of worldly reason and cares; to make space in our hearts and minds, our souls and our bodies for this miraculous event – Emmanuel. God with us.

Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord is fully accessible. For further information on this and other events at Trinity, please call our Parish Office, 978-369-3715 or learn more online at www.trinityconcord.org.