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Glossary definitions adapted from An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians, edited by Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, provided courtesy of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY.
The three-day observance of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, leading up to Easter Day; may also designate any three-day period of preparation for a feast day.
Trinity means “threefold unity.” The Trinity is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (BCP, p. 852).
One of the seven principal feasts of the church year, celebrated on the first Sunday after Pentecost to commemorate the one and equal glory of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
A 19th-century traveling preacher, advocate for women’s rights, and abolitionist who was enslaved for the first 28 years of her life. Feast day: July 20, along with Amelia Bloomer and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
A 19th-century abolitionist who escaped from slavery and helped more than 300 others escape through the Underground Railroad. Feast day: March 10.
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