Trinity Church
Newport, Rhode Island   Trinity’s Website

Sunday April 3rd
8am Holy Eucharist (said) “The Doubt Welcoming Community”
9am Adult Study “Doubt – Friend or Foe, Resident or Guest”
10am Holy Eucharist (choral) “The Doubt Welcoming Community”
11:15am Sermon Review/Conversation with the Preacher

The Sunday following Easter Day has often been called “Low Sunday”.
The reasons are varied
a. there is the transition from ‘Easter Crowds’ to ‘Regular Attendance’
b. there is the inevitable exchange between affirmative celebration and realistic acceptance
c. there is the expected absence of clergy as they recover from Lent, Holy Week and Easter
Of the three, I think (c) is the most unlikely. I am not convinced that congregations are appalled when clergy are absent for a week or two and, probably theologically, they should not be either.

The Anglican Communion (of which the Episcopal Church is an integral part) has always maintained that to doubt is to believe and to love; the Church is a safe place where the question and doubt is welcomed and respected. I am very proud to be a member of such a community of faith… and doubt.

I believe strongly that doubt is an inevitable part of a living and growing aspect in any relationship of commitment. How can this not be the case given that the thinking person carries self doubt so often in so many phases of their own life?