Our Summer Program from the Children, Youth & Family Ministry features a variety of activities for families on the go! This year, we Share Stories Together while vacationing, attending church, or serving others. Parents, grandparents, and guardians are invited to reserve your bag today: Family@trinitynewhaven.org. Pick up details in the Narthex beginning Sunday, May 31.
Dedication and Commemoration for
Lucy and Lois Tritton
& their Descendants
Sunday, June 14 at 12:45pm
Westville Cemetery
St. Luke’s & Trinity on the Green are hosting a joint prayer service at the graveside of Lois Tritton and her grandson Frederick. We remember the historic significance of Lois and her mother Lucy, as the last two enslaved people sold by auction on the New Haven Green. We pause in this month when we observe Juneteenth: to honor their story, to acknowledge other stories of freedom deferred, and to pray for a more just and loving future.
We hope that many will join us in a short pilgrimage to the gravesite, following Trinity’s 10:30am service. Details and directions to the gravesite are forthcoming.
America, America: Summer Sermon Series at Trinity
June 14 – July 12
Our summer sermon series invites preachers to engage with the 250th Anniversary of the United States of America, reflecting on our American identity in light of our faith and the authors of books who have shaped our understanding of what our country is, and what it can be.
June 14 | The Rev. Heidi Thorsen | Broken We Kneel, by Diana Butler Bass
June 21 | The Rev. Canon Ranjit Mathews | The Soul of America, by Jon Meacham
June 28 | Dr. Samuel Ernest | Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
July 5 | The Rev. Luk De Volder | The American Spirit, by David McCullough
July 12 | The Rev. D Littlepage | Dark Testament, by Pauli Murray
The annual organ recital series "Summers with Soosie" begins with a recital by Nicholas Stigall on June 4th at 7:00 pm. Join us each Thursday evening in June for a musical offering supporting our organ restoration project.
During last week's Ascension Day Evensong service, the combined choirs of Trinity on the Green and St. Thomas's Episcopal Church performed this beautiful rendition of Viri Galilaei by Patrick Gowers:
You can see our temporary console in action here - thanks to modern technology, this console still controls the actual pipes of Sister Soosie whose original console is currently out for restoration. For more information about the console restoration, see here:
Please consider the following message, shared on behalf of our friends at St. John's Episcopal Church:
I’m Bill Rowley, one of the wardens at St. John’s. I’m emailing to let you know about our Stop the Bleed training we’ll be hosting.
St. John’s Episcopal Church is hosting a free Stop the Bleed training on May 30 at 1:00 PM. We’d like to let you know about it in case you would like to publicize it to your congregation.
Stop the Bleed is a training put together by the American College of Surgeons and the DOD to teach people how to
evaluate bleeding injuries for severity and
act quickly to slow or stop the bleeding until professional help arrives.
Traumatic bleeding is the biggest cause of preventable death after injury, and training makes a big difference.
This is the first in a series of events we’re hoping to put on over the next few months that focus on tangible, hands-on ways of carrying out Jesus’ command to love our neighbors as ourselves. Stop the Bleed equips people to step into the Samaritan’s shoes and truly be a neighbor to those in our community.
Volunteers welcome: help bake birthday cake for COTG on May 31
Are you a long term supporter of Chapel on the Green, or curious to join us on a Sunday soon? Consider joining us on Sunday, May 31. Volunteers young and old will stay after coffee hour to bake cakes, decorate them, and spend time together before the Chapel on the Green service, which starts at 2pm. Volunteers will then help serve the cake and distribute cards to those whose birthdays are in May. This is a monthly initiative we hope to continue every last Sunday of the month.
Let us know if you plan on joining! Email Angela: family@trinitynewhaven.org.
There will be a memorial service for David Klebe at Trinity Church on the Green this Saturday, May 23, at 11:00 a.m. David was a member of Trinity and the brother of Karen Isaacs. All are welcome.
Trinity Home Board: Spring Luncheon
Wednesday, June 17
New Haven Country Club (160 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden)
12:30pm - Cocktail Hour, with Cash Bar
1pm - Lunch
RSVP to Billie Ladd (bdladd@sbcglobal.net) by June 9, specifying your meal choice:
> Grilled NY Sirloin
> Pan Seared Atlantic Salmon
> No Noodle Butternut Squash Lasagna
Home Board events are for people 62 and older. Event is free, though contributions up to $45 are welcome to support the ongoing mission of the Home Board to provide support to aging people in our community.
The Trinity Players present The Tower of Babel as a short comic “lesson drama” based on Genesis 11:1–9. The legendary King Nimrod of Babylon, with the help of his Chief Engineer, is building a tower to challenge God and proudly showing it to his old Nanny. God rebukes the King, and the tower comes crashing down. God confounds everyone, so that each speaks a different language. The story is not only a biblical lesson about overreaching pride, but also an example of religious comedy. It presents a revelation of truth by comic reduction—in this case, by making, as it were, molehills out of mountains.
All ages invited! Join our Trinity families, young parishioners and Friends of the Green Ministry as we pick up trash on the New Haven Green as a way to give back to our community. Special tools and supplies are provided -- some are kids sized! Meet to the right of the church’s front doors at 9:30 AM and please wear closed-toe shoes.
The weather looks great this Saturday for a new, regional group being launched at College Woods/East Rock Park to connect Episcopal families in the New Haven area. We're gathering 10 AM-Noon near the playground to connect, snack, chat, pray, and play. Episco-PALS welcomes YOU -- and if you'd like to bring your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, please do. Join us! 41 Cold Spring Road, New Haven.
Last weekend, some of our youngest parishioners attended Prayers & Pajamas, an overnight adventure in the church. How did we fill the time? By exploring hidden rooms, cooking tacos, making edible ornaments for birds on the Green, walking Connie, playing games, planning Compline, learning a hymn, drawing, hanging out, sleeping, reading and singing at the 7:45 AM Service, having an epic pillow fight, and baking muffins from scratch for the folks at Chapel on the Green. Whew!
Our 10:30 AM Service this Sunday features Family Eucharist upstairs in the Nave. Join us!
Trinity parishioners -- of any age -- are invited by Spirit Quest, our youth group, to join our free bus trip to Ephrata, PA, on Friday, June 26. We will be serving at MCC.org's Material Resource Center by creating kits of relief, hygiene or school supplies or working on a recycling fundraiser which helps them purchase items for the kits. After finishing at 2 PM, we will visit a local Amish market and also learn more about Mennonite and Amish communities. Questions? Contact Angela Arpino immediately and save your seat on the bus: Family@trinitynewhaven.org. We will leave Trinity Church at 6 AM and arrive home around 8 PM.
Trinity Book Group will be meeting at Deborah Johnson’s home on Tuesday May 26th at 3:00pm . We will be discussing North Woods by Daniel Mason. A multigenerational novel that tells the story of a house and its land in New England. Following the lives of its inhabitants - human and non-human - from Puritan times to the present.
If you wish to join us or to know more about Trinity book group please contact jenniferobriggs@gmail.com
Come see the Trinity Choristers in concert with the Haven String Quartet on May 16th, starting at 7:30pm at the Unitarian Society of New Haven. The Haven String Quartet and Music Haven’s Resident Pianist Jacob Wang perform Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet. Guest Composer and Violinist, Colin Jacobsen premieres his composition Rhapsody for choir and strings.
Three of our youngest parishioners (and their adults!) baked and decorated cakes, made homemade cards, sang "Happy Birthday," and served the cake to more than 100 people last Sunday at Chapel on the Green. This monthly Birthday Ministry is new to Trinity and all parishioners are welcome to volunteer. If you would like to help next month, reach out to Rev. Heidi (hthorsen@trinitynewhaven.org). Thank you, kids -- and your adults -- for your incredible service to this special Trinity community.
Saturday, May 9 | Festival takes place from 10am to 4pm
9am – Clean the Green (with Friends of the Green)
11am-1pm – Stained Glass Self-Guided Tours, with organ music accompaniment
More about Wake Up the Green:
The Proprietors of the New Haven Green invite the community to celebrate the arrival of spring at the Wake Up the Green Spring Festival. This vibrant, family-friendly, and leashed pet-friendly event will take place on the New Haven Green and will feature a variety of activities, entertainment, and shopping opportunities.
Trinity will participate in this event by hosting a special Clean the Green to prepare our shared space for this festival. We will also open the doors of our church from 11am to 1pm, offering pamphlets for self-guided tours of our beautiful stained glass windows, with music in the background from Trinity’s historic organ.
A special edition of Clean the Green is taking place on Sunday, May 17 at 9:30 AM. You and our youngest parishioners will join Trinity’s Friends of the Green Ministry as we pick up trash on the New Haven Green around Trinity as a way to give back to our community. All ages welcome. Special tools and supplies are provided (grabbers are also available in kids' size!). Meet on the steps of the church at 9:30 AM. Please wear closed-toe shoes. Questions? Contact Angela: Family@trinitynewhaven.org.
