Throughout the last year we read together several very meaningful books, ending with a great teaching on Celtic Spirituality back in March/April. Among other things, we learned how deeply connected the old Celts were with nature, and how they recognized God in nature. In this new course we are going to read together Karen Armstrong’s latest book: Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World. In this book the author takes us via a timeline of sorts from ancient eastern civilizations to our world today in an attempt to show us how other folks think about the Divine and nature, how we, especially in the west, have lost that connection, thereby separating the Divine from nature, and she gives us some practical advice on how to restore this special bond with the natural world. She cares deeply about what is happening to our world today and believes that we can reverse some of the harm done through a new or renewed understanding of how everything is connected.

The book is available from most booksellers. It costs around $28 for the hardcover, it is unavailable in paperback for the time being, but it is available for Kindle ($15). If the cost of the book is a hardship, please contact Lilian (lrevel@trinitynewhaven.org). Any other questions should also be addressed to Lilian.

The course will take take place via Zoom on Wednesdays from 5pm – 6pm, starting Wednesday, October 5. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89292276648?pwd=bVQyNzd3RW5WT25HU01PYXU4Y3RpZz09

To register, please email Lilian Revel (lrevel@trinitynewhaven.org)

“The Trinity Sages” – What is that?

It’s a new group to be formed for seniors and their friends, who wish to come together periodically to share their experiences and joys of aging, discuss the important issues, support each other in pain and difficulties, and grow in the spirituality and grace of aging. Sages are wise people.

Would you like to participate in such a group? If so, please email Lilian Revel (lrevel@trinitynewhaven.org) indicating your interest and answering the following questions:

Preferred frequency of meetings: weekly / biweekly / monthly

Preferred time of meetings: mornings / afternoons / evenings

Preferred location of meetings: zoom / in person at Trinity Church

Parish Meeting Sunday

We're excited to host our yearly Parish Meeting on Sunday, October 9th, after the 10:30 am service. A simple catered meal will be provided at the Parish Meeting, rather than our traditional potluck. However, people are welcome to bring cookies or other desserts, potluck-style, to share!

Preparing the Music Director's Transition

Looming large over this year's parish meeting will be discussions of Walden Moore's plans for his well-earned retirement and Trinity's search for his successor. It is difficult to imagine a Director of Music at Trinity other than Walden Moore, who has been our beloved organist, choir director, youth minister, coordinator of liturgy, unordained priest and prayer warrior in service of so many people’s happiness and soul wellness. As we approach Walden's transition, we proceed inspired by his example and love for Trinity’s music ministry.At our annual Parish Meeting on Sunday October 9, 11:30 a.m. in the Undercroft, we will start the parish-wide conversation on the different steps to consider and the timeline to observe, for both the process toward hiring Walden’s successor as well as the preparation of celebrating Walden’s legacy. Upon his retirement in 2024, Walden will have served at Trinity for forty years!

To encourage everyone’s participation in this conversation and process, we invite you to share your thoughts, hopes, and wishes for the future of our music program. This link will bring you to brief questionnaire where you can provide your feedback and that will also ask you if you would like to be involved in the music committee at this time. On behalf of the Rector and the Vestry, the Music Committee will coordinate both the celebration of Walden Moore’s legacy as well as the search for Trinity’s next Director of Music.

New Haven celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Month in September, and Trinity on the Green will be joining in the celebration with a table at New Haven Pridefest (hosted right on the New Haven Green) on Saturday, 

September 17. Please reach out to Bill Pagano if you'd like to take a shift working at Pridefest from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. We need volunteers to staff the table and greeters at the Church that day.

The next evening (Sunday, September 18), Trinity will host an Evensong for Pride at 5:00 p.m.

Save this date: Saturday, October 1! Trinity’s annual Pet Blessing will take place at a special location – the Robin I. Kroogman New Haven Animal Shelter. Bring your pet (licensed and vaccinated, please) or stuffed animal at 3 p.m. and meet some of the adoptable animals from the shelter. Please invite your friends. Treat and food donations encouraged! Co-sponsored by The City of New Haven Humane Commission.

For Bishop Jeffrey Mello’s consecration on Saturday, October 15, 11 A.M. we are looking for volunteers who are experienced ushers, and greeters. Valarie Stanley and the Rev. Luk De Volder are coordinating this part of the consecration liturgy. Please let them know if you would like to sign up for one of these liturgical leadership functions: v.j.stanley5@gmail.com or ldevolder@trinitynewhaven.org

We are pleased to announce that Kyle Picha, Director of Communications, has agreed to step into a new role as Trinity’s Office Manager.

In this newly created position, Kyle will provide essential services for the Trinity community and staff across many areas. He’ll be working to maintain and develop office resources, assist with scheduling and retention of committee working documents, and become involved in Trinity’s business and financial functions as a link between parishioners and our new out-of-office bookkeeper, Janel Crite.

He’ll also be retaining much of his communications portfolio. The eNews will still come from him. He’ll be the point person for Trinity’s database, website, and general inquiries, as a well as a valuable resource for technical support. We will be seeking a part-time employee to take on some communications tasks, but for the time being, Kyle will be able to provide continuity in this moment of staffing transitions at Trinity.

Most questions that parishioners might have previously referred to the business manager can now be directed to Kyle at kpicha@trinitynewhaven.org.

We would like to thank both Kyle and the dedicated volunteers that are diligently working to support Trinity and ready the church for another wonderful year worshipping and walking together.

Ordination and Consecration of the XVI Bishop Diocesan October 15, 2022

ECCT PARISHES:

In order to ensure equal opportunity for parish participation, parish leadership have received a link to a registration form allowing them to sign up to five lay people. Clergy, service participants, ECCT staff and elected leadership bodies (Mission Council, Standing Committee, COM, and BTC) should not be included in this form. On September 19, general admission registration will open. If you are a parish leader and have not received this link, contact Canon Jasree at jperalta@episcopalct.org.

For those unable to attend in person, this event will be live-streamed via ECCT’s Youtube channel. If you are hosting a watch party and are interested in promoting it, please email Canon Jasree (email above.)

COVID-19 Guidelines (As of September 6)

Out of an abiding love of our neighbor, face masks and full vaccinations will be required for attendance at the ordination and consecration service. Please know that there will be more than 1,500 people in attendance, and mask wearing will be enforced outside of eating and drinking areas. Congregational singing will take place. Registered guests will be informed in advance of any changes in COVID-19-related guidelines.

At Trinity on the Green we keep her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in our prayers and in thanksgiving for her steadfastness, her grace, and her faith.

Blessed are you, Lord our God, lover of souls: you uphold us in life and sustain us in death: to you be glory and praise for ever! For the darkness of this age is passing away as Christ the bright and morning star brings to his saints the light of life. As you give light to those in darkness, who walk in the shadow of death, so remember in your kingdom your faithful servant, Elizabeth, that death may be for her the gate to life and to unending fellowship with you; where with your saints you live and reign, one in the perfect union of love, now and for ever. Amen.

Here is the statement of our Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on the death of Queen Elizabeth II:

Today [8th September, 2022] we mourn the passing and celebrate the life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II. My prayers for peace go out for her, for her loved ones, and for all those who knew and loved her throughout the world.

Her resilience, her dignity, and her model of quiet faith and piety have been—and will continue to be—an example for so many.

May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal Church

As summer comes to an end, we'll resume our regular schedule for the academic year, copied below for convenience:

7:45am: Quiet Morning Eucharist, Rite 1

9:00am: Choral Morning Prayer, Rite 1

10:30am: Holy Eucharist, Rite 2

2:00pm: Chapel on the Green

5:00pm: Evensong/Taizé/Celtic Prayer Service

On Wednesday September 7 our 12:10 p.m. Eucharist Service will resume. Once again, every Wednesday, a relaxed mid-week Eucharist will take place at the side Chapel. It is an ideal moment in the middle of the week to take time for prayer, meditation, and re-centering. Come and join us.

We have a number of staff transitioning happening this summer:

• Rachel Segger, our Music Program Manager has been offered a job by Dr. Martin Jean, Director of the Institute of Sacred Music, and she will become Program Manager of Yale Camerata. However, Rachel has been very supportive to Trinity and Walden by negotiating a gradual transition. For this upcoming academic year, 2022/23, she will work 50% at the ISM and 50% at Trinity.

• Linda Becconsall, our Trinity Business Manager, will be transitioning out of our office. She is planning to move closer to her parents in Florida.

• Finally, Georgia Cosgrove, our Development Officer, will retire from Trinity at the end of September, which she was a plan she had been contemplating for a while.

Change is never easy and staff transitions can be hard, but there is also tremendous gratitude for the wonderful team spirit and collaboration every one has engaged in. Special thanks to Rachel, Georgia, and Linda for the extra efforts during these very challenging years of the pandemic: a purse is available at the office to honor their work at Trinity. Contributions can be sent to the office with mention of their name. Rachel’s celebration will be for later in 2023.

To ensure church business, we have hired a new accountant: Ms. Janel Crite, CPA. Ms. Crite is a certified public accountant with a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of New Haven and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from Lynchburg College. In her spare time she enjoys reading, traveling, and running. We welcome Janel to Trinity and look forward to working with her!

SUNDAY SPARK (School) REGISTRATION

Please register your child(ren) and family for Sunday Spark, even if you plan to come to just a few events. Angela will be ordering class materials for the year and wants to use our funds wisely! You can register by CLICKING HERE.

A calendar of Sunday Spark dates is available HERE. Thank you for your cooperation!

Accepting Nominations for ECCT Elected Bodies

Interested in becoming a delegate for our next General Convention, or a member of ECCT's Standing Committee? You are invited to fill out the 2022 Convention Nominee form to apply. Applications are open until October 7th. If you are having difficulties filling out the form, please be in touch with the Secretary of Convention the Rev. Carrie Combs (ccombs@episcopalct.org.)

SAVE THE DATE: Ordination and Consecration of the Rev. Jeffrey William Mello

God willing and the people consenting, the Rev. Jeffrey William Mellow will be ordained and consecrated a Bishop in the one holy catholic and apostolic church, and XVI Bishop of The Episcopal Church in Connecticut.

The service will take place on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at the Connecticut Convention Center, 100 Columbus Blvd., Hartford, CT. Doors open at 10 AM and the service begins at 11 AM. Chief consecrator is the Most Reverend Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church.

Please save the date and plan to join us for this very special event in our common life in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut!

A formal invitation that will include registration and live stream links will be forthcoming.

David Preston is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in organ at the Yale School of Music with professors Martin Jean, Carole Terry, and James O’Donnell. He previously studied under Dr. Joseph Butler at Texas Christian University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BM in Church Music.

David has performed in recitals across the United States, including the American Guild of Organists’ 2022 national convention in Seattle. He has also won numerous awards, including first prize in the 2021 Regional competition for Young Organists, and the First and Hymn Playing Excellence prizes at the 2019 William B. Hall Organ Competition. In addition to these, he has played with TCU’s wind symphony at the TMEA conference, TCU’s symphony orchestra, and played with TCU’s early music group for many years on harpsichord.

Aside from music, David enjoys reading, traveling, and visiting heritage railways. One of his hopes is to visit England both as an organist and rail enthusiast. David is the thirty-fourth in The Long Purple Line of Trinity Organ Scholars.

Coming in November -- Christmas Market 2022!

As always, the weekend before Thanksgiving, this year November 18, 19, 20. Add the dates to your calendar and begin to think of ways that you can participate. Plans are still evolving but we will certainly have:

• Crafts! The Wednesday Club group has been making items to sell since January. You can join them each Wednesday from 9:00 am – noon. Contact Pat Chappell rachappell@frontier.com

• Cookies! The format of our famous homemade cookie area is still to be determined but there WILL be cookies so dig out your recipe cards. Contact Liz Dickinson elizmd@sbcglobal.net

• Tag Sale! I hope you have all started to collect items for our fabulous and extravagant Tag Sale area, I know I have. Drop off details coming soon. Contact Constance Cahill cahillconstancet@gmail.com

Additional offerings will include plants, jewelry, food items, knitted items, and food. Details on these and the possibility of some type of Silent Auction are in process. There are a couple of key committee head positions to fill and lots of volunteer opportunities to fit any time commitment.

Are you a newcomer? The annual Christmas Market is the BEST way to get to know more people at Trinity. Lots of work and even more fun.

Please contact me for more information and stay tuned to this space for more details.

Leigh Cromey leighcromey@gmail.com

Merton in America

Benjamin Nicholas and the Choir of Merton College, Oxford head stateside in September for concerts at St. Ignatius Loyola, New York and other historic venues
Tour programme includes Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor and works with strong royal connections in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee

Sacred choral music from both sides of the Atlantic will travel with the Choir of Merton College, Oxford on its first tour since before the Covid pandemic. Merton’s choral scholars and their Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas are bound for the United States this autumn to perform at the New York City Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Park Avenue (15 September 2022). Their itinerary opens with Choral Evensong given jointly with Harvard University Choir at the Memorial Church of Harvard University (11 September), followed by a concert (12 September), and also includes performances at Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven (13 September) and Princeton University Chapel (16 September).

“Touring is very important to us on so many levels,” comments Benjamin Nicholas. “Our university terms are quite short, so working together in a concentrated way outside those three eight-week periods is invaluable to the choir’s musical development. It’s also hugely important socially for this age group. I think any of our choral scholars would say that touring is one of the advantages of being in a collegiate choir. We’ve missed that enormously since we last toured in December 2018. The new generation of Merton singers, who joined us in autumn 2019, has never been on tour as a group. That makes this US trip doubly important.”

Nicholas has chosen works that bring out the best from his singers and are sure to connect with the choir’s American audience. His compelling programme includes the motet Senex pueram portabat and again (after ecclesiastes), respectively by New York-based composers Nico Muhly and David Lang. The latter work, a setting of Hebrew verses freely adapted by the composer from the Book of Ecclesiastes, unfolds as a short meditation on the strands of hope and futility woven into the pattern of natural and human cycles. The choir is also set to perform English sacred works with impeccable royal connections, chosen to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

Merton College Choir’s concert bill opens with the Mass in G minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams, the Creed from which was performed at the Queen’s coronation service in 1953. O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth and Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, majestic masterworks by William Byrd and Henry Purcell, evoke the golden age of music from England’s Chapel Royal. They are prefaced by Ave Regina caelorum, originally written in 2014 by

today’s Master of the Queen’s Music, Judith Weir, to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Merton College and included in the Merton Choirbook, a compendious collection of new choral compositions. The royal theme runs through the programme’s second half in the form of Bring us, O Lord by William Harris, organist of St George’s Chapel Windsor, who taught piano to the young Princess Elizabeth and was assistant conductor at her coronation, and Hubert Parry’s I was glad, performed at every coronation since Edward VII’s in 1902.

Nicholas and his choir recorded an album of contemporary American music shortly before the pandemic began. It is scheduled for future release on the Delphian label. “We haven’t had the chance to sing our new American repertoire in concert, so I chose two representative, neatly contrasting pieces from the recording for our tour,” comments Merton’s Director of Music. “The Muhly and Lang works make a very good fit with the rest of the programme.”

The next Merton College Choir album, scheduled for release by Delphian on Armistice Day, 11 November 2022, couples Ian Venables’ Requiem with anthems for choir and orchestra by Herbert Howells. Venables added orchestral parts to his Requiem setting, first performed two years ago with organ accompaniment, which receives its debut recording here in company with the world premiere recording of his anthem God be merciful. The album also includes the first recording of Howells’ The House of the Mind in its version for choir and orchestra, and premiere recordings of newly orchestrated versions of O pray for the peace of Jerusalem and Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks.

“This is an exciting time for Merton College Choir,” says Benjamin Nicholas. “We’re busy making recordings and looking forward to our tour to the States. This is on top of our regular work of singing Evensong every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday in Merton Chapel. This will be the choir’s fourth tour to the USA since its formation in 2008. I know from past experience that they are a great way to build morale, raise standards and reach new audiences.”

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US TOUR 11-16 September 2022

Sunday 11 September 2022, 4pm
Memorial Church of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Choral Evensong sung jointly with Harvard University Choir) Event link

Monday 12 September 2022, 12.15pm
Memorial Church of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Event link

Tuesday 13 September 2022, 7.30pm
Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven, CT

Thursday 15 September 2022, 7pm
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York City (also to be live-streamed) Event link

Friday 16 September 2022, time TBA Princeton University Chapel, NJ

Benjamin Nicholas conductor, organ | Choir of Merton College, Oxford

Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus, Agnus Dei) Lionel Rogg Air from Homage to Takemitsu (organ solo)
Judith Weir Ave Regina Caelorum

Byrd O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Purcell Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
David Lang again
Duruflé Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons (organ solo) Nico Muhly Senex pueram portabat

William Harris Bring us, O Lord Parry I was glad

THE CHOIR OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD

The Choir of Merton College consists of 30 undergraduate and graduate students at Oxford University reading for degrees in a variety of subjects. The choir's primary duty is singing regular services in the famous 13th-century Chapel.

Since the establishment of Merton’s Choral Foundation in 2008, the choir has gained an international reputation for offering the best of choral music through tours, recordings and broadcasts. The choir won the 2020 award for best choral album at the BBC Music Magazine Awards for its recording of Gabriel Jackson’s The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. The choir’s discography on the Delphian label has seen numerous five-star reviews and many recordings have been named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone magazine.

The choir has recently appeared at The Three Choirs Festival, the Cheltenham Music Festival, the concert series at St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall and The Temple Church. The choir is regularly heard in concert with orchestra: recent collaborations have seen the choir perform with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Elgar’s The Apostles), Instruments of Time and Truth (Bach’s St Matthew Passion) and Oxford Baroque (Bach’s Mass in B minor). The choir’s annual festival, Passiontide at Merton, has an established place in Oxford’s musical calendar, and has led to exciting collaborations with such groups as The Cardinall’s Musick and The Marian Consort.

Merton College Choir regularly tours overseas, recently visiting the USA, Hong Kong and Singapore, France, Italy and Sweden. In 2017, the choir sang the first Anglican Service in St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

The choir’s commitment to contemporary music has seen numerous composers write for the choir. It has premiered works by Kerry Andrew, Birtwistle, Chilcott, Dove, Ešenvalds, Frances-Hoad, Kendall, MacMillan, McDowall, Rutter, Tabakova and Weir. In 2021, the choir gave the world premiere of a new work by Daniel Kidane.

Earlier this spring, Friends of the Green distributed sunflower seeds in solidarity with Ukraine.

We want to see and share your sunflowers! Images should be emailed to friendsofthegreennewhaven@gmail.com email. If you would like photo credit, please say so in your email.

Joan’s Clothing Closet, part of Loaves and Fishes, offers clothing to our guests each Saturday morning. We are now experiencing a dearth of clothing. We are in great need of women’s and men’s summer casual clothes: short sleeved tops and Tshirts, men’s and women’s shorts, new underwear for both genders, jeans. We also give out bed linens, towels and toiletries. Delivery can be before 9 AM each weekday morning and from 7-10AM Monday through Saturday. This is an important mission for those who come to us –often after sleeping outside or in insecure locations. Delivery is best in the St. Paul & St. James undercroft –down the driveway to the kitchen door. Thank you!