Trinity Community Dinners are one of the ways that we connect with each other and the community. These festive themed dinners are no cost, and are open to Trinity community and friends. Optional donations are welcome to help cover the cost of food.

RSVP is strongly encouraged, but not required! You can re-submit to this form for any future RSVPs: RSVP: Trinity Community Dinners 2026-7. Questions? Contact: connect@trinitynewhaven.org.

Upcoming Dinners

Friday, Dec. 18 at 6pm | Carol Sing & Cookie Decorating – Get in the holiday spirit with a cozy dinner, carol sing, and Christmas cookie decorating. We’ll end the night singing a song or two on the front steps of Trinity.

Friday, Jan. 22 at 6pm | Burns Night – Festive tribute to the poet Robbie Burns and Scottish culture, featuring poetry recitation, country dances, and a haggis-inspired meal.

Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 6pm | Shrove Tuesday Pancake Races & Breakfast for Dinner – Calling all spectators to the choir’s annual tradition of racing down the nave, while flipping pancakes (participation from children of all ages is welcome). Followed by breakfast for dinner, and brief liturgy and bonfire outside for the burning of last year’s palms, in preparation for Ash Wednesday.

Friday, April 23 at 6pm | Choir Cabaret – Back by popular demand! A classy evening of cabaret classics sung by familiar faces from Trinity’s choirs.

Trinity Cookie Bake
Saturday, September 19
9am - noon
Trinity undercroft

Please contact Gloria Hoda by September 12 to help with planning.
Gloria.hoda@gmail.com
203-430-4066

Our Spirit Quest Youth Group has completed their summer quest! They collected 222 lbs of food creating 185 meals for hungry children in New Haven. Sandy Hagan of Food4Kids was thrilled with our donations. Thank you to all who donated food or funds to this great cause and thank you to the Spirit Quest members who made this collection so successful.

In addition to our organ scholar Gavin Klein, we are delighted to welcome two seminarians to worship and serve alongside us at Trinity this year.

Gabriel (Gabe) Colombo is excited to be joining Trinity as a seminarian for the 2026–2027 academic year. Gabe is a postulant for holy orders to the priesthood in the Diocese of Massachusetts and a second-year Master of Divinity student at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Originally from Austin, Texas, he has an academic and professional background in the humanities, architecture, and urban design and holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Gabe enjoys cycling, hiking, long-distance pilgrimage walks, reading, Shakespeare, and musical theatre.

Steph McNally (she/her) is a second-year student at Berkeley Divinity School and a postulant in the Diocese of California. Prior to commencing study at Berkeley, she lived in San Francisco, where she worshiped and worked at Grace Cathedral, serving as the Formation Program Manager for Children, Youth, Families, and Adults. Steph also had the opportunity to work as an Education Specialist at the Glide Foundation, a non-profit that serves the diverse community of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. In her spare time, Steph enjoys reading, writing, board games, and spending time with her husband exploring the beautiful parks and fascinating historic sites of New Haven and beyond. Originally from Adelaide, South Australia, Steph has an enduring love of many things Australian, with a particular interest in Aussie wildlife, television shows, and the cricket team!

November 20 – 22, 2026

All proceeds go to the Organ Restoration Fund

TAG SALE EDITION!

Start organizing your boxes of goodies to donate to the Christmas Market Tag Sale.

Tag Sale drop-off dates: 

Saturday September 26 - 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Saturday October 31, 10:00 – 11:30 am

Wednesday mornings, 9:30 to noon – until Nov. 11. We cannot accept items after this date.

Clean and ready to sell please.  See the Trinity website for details on what can/cannot be donated https://www.trinitynewhaven.org/the-christmas-market.

Questions? Please contact leighcromey@gmail.com.

This Tuesday, 9/1, 7pm: St. PJ's "Farewell to Summer" jazz showcase feat. Dylan Rowland: Send off the New Haven summer in style with Wooster Square's gift of jazz, a beautiful spiritual style that draws on diverse musical and cultural histories to give us all the feels. This refreshing end-of-summer performance will be held this Tuesday, September 1, at 7 p.m. in the St. PJ's Episcopal Church sanctuary at 57 Olive Street, New Haven, with the entrance on Chapel Street. Street parking only. Tell a friend!

The mission of the Outreach and Justice Committee is to help Trinity serve God by serving and advocating for others in our community.

  How we do this:

  -We make our community a better place by listening to and seeking to understand the needs of our neighbors.

  -We follow Christ’s example of compassion and inclusivity.

  -We affirm that this is intergenerational work, involving people of all ages and backgrounds.

  -We recognize that we cannot do this work alone, and that part of our work is connecting people with other service providers and supporting them through grants, in-kind donations, and volunteering.

At our next meeting, we will be discerning how we may serve our neighbors through both our feeding ministries and tabling at community events. Our meetings dates for 2026–2027 are:

-Sunday, Sept 20th, 12:00 PM

-Sunday, Jan 10th, 12:00 PM

-Sunday, May 2nd, 12:00 PM

This Sunday, we celebrate the August birthdays of our Chapel on the Green friends. Help us bake during Coffee Hour, eat lunch with us as we create birthday cards, decorate the cakes, then help serve at the 2 PM Service. Thank you for your help!

Each Wednesday a group of women and men meet in the Undercroft to work on projects for the annual Christmas Market. All are welcome to join – some of us use sewing machines, some of us work on crafts, and some of us simply enjoy coffee and conversation. We meet weekly from 9:30 am – noon, ending in time for the weekly Eucharist at 12:10 pm.

No experience is needed, crafting projects are available at all levels or bring us your ideas and partially completed projects. It is a warm, supportive, dedicated group – drop in to check it out or contact Pat for more information rachappell@frontier.com.

Fort Hale Main Pavilion

Fort Nathan Hale Park - 20 Woodward Ave, New Haven, CT 06512

Sunday, September 13th

10:30 AM – Holy Eucharist

Join us for our annual welcome back worship service, taking place this year at Fort Hale Park. Picnic to follow – Trinity will provide the main course, and we invite members of our community to bring an additional dish to share.

Optional:

• Potluck Participation: If your surname begins with A-N, please bring a dessert, and if O-Z, a savory side-dish

• Bring a comfortable folding chair or blanket, to supplement other seating that will be available that day

Tickets are now on sale for Trinity's Fall Music for Music presentation of Lyyra in Concert on Saturday, November 14 at 7:00 PM. Founded by The VOCES8 Foundation and newly signed to Warner Classics, this dazzling all-women vocal ensemble brings a program spanning classical, jazz, pop, and folk, with a sound praised by BBC Radio 3 for its "exceptional versatility and skill." Join us in our historic sanctuary for a rare, intimate New Haven performance from one of choral music's most exciting new names — get your tickets here before they're gone: Lyyra in Concert -- The All-Women Ensemble from the VOCES8 Foundation.

Season of Creation Devotionals

Sign up to receive daily devotionals offered by faithful contributors from Episcopal Province I. The purpose of these daily devotions is to open our eyes to some of the “created ones” with whom we share common ground, to awaken our hearts to their needs, and to take new steps toward living together in peace.

Each day of the 2026 Season of Creation (September 1 - October 4) participants will receive a Daily Devotion via email bringing to light a different species in our Province One EcoRegions.  The Devotions will include a photo, a brief description, thoughts on how the species reflects our image of God, and a closing prayer. 

Sign Up Here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/0XmcMht

The Devotions will also be accessible at the website of An Episcopal
Path to Creation Justice website: https://www.episcopalcreationpath.org

After a summer hiatus we will resume our weekly meetings on Thursday, September 10. This group gets together to study, read, and share with each other, on topics from the Bible itself, and often from Bible based or spirituality related books. Our first book this season is Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, by Richard Rohr. If you would like to join this group, just click on the zoom link posted below (and in the weekly News & Notices). For questions email Lilian Revel at lrevel@pobox.com. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84633633168?pwd=UmVKbnFRc0ZkMlp4Mkcva3RPQ3UvZz09

MORNING MEDITATION ON ZOOM – Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays (8:00 – 8:30am)

This group has been getting together three times a week (barring holidays and vacations) for 30 minutes of meditation, typically Centering Prayer. Our gatherings have led to a tight-knit small community with support for each other in times of suffering and joy. We will resume our practice on Wednesday, September 9. If you feel you would like to join us, just click on the zoom link posted below (and in the weekly News & Notices). For questions email Lilian Revel at lrevel@pobox.com. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84633633168?pwd=UmVKbnFRc0ZkMlp4Mkcva3RPQ3UvZz09

Wednesday, September 16

Open to Trinity members, friends, and Episcopal Churches in the greater New Haven Area, ages 62 and older.

RSVP by August 25.

12-12:30pm Lunch

12:30-1pm: History & Site Conversation with Director Ryan Paxton

1pm-2:15pm Project

This hands-on event is an opportunity to build community. Participants will create, decorate, and take home a solar-powered sunflower. Enjoy a provided lunch, as well as a guided tour with Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop Director Ryan Paxton. To RSVP, email: bdladd@sbcglobal.net.

This event is free, though contributions of up to $45 are welcome to support the ongoing mission of Trinity’s Home Board, to support seniors in our community.

Monday, September 7 (Labor Day)

We are planning to organize a table with refreshments in front of Trinity as a gesture of hospitality during the New Haven Road Race this year. Email Donna Violante with your interest in signing up: donnaviolante@att.net

A Note about Parking: volunteers will have to park in local lots that day (see the Road Race website for guidance), due to road closures

First Shift: 7:30am to 9am

Second Shift: 9am to 10:30am

We gather to read beloved children’s books, inspired by religious traditions including Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity.  Co-hosted by Congregation Mishkan Israel, New Haven Zen Center, and Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green. This event is part of Trinity’s summer program Sharing Stories Together, exploring the stories of our faith, family, and the wider community. RSVP is helpful but not required. Email family@trinitynewhaven.org by August 16.

Home Board Event:

Tour of Lost in New Haven, a Museum of New Haven Memorabilia
Thursday, August 6

Schedule

• 10:30am – Group 1 Tour

• Lunch - 12 - 12:45pm for both tour groups

• 1:00pm – Group 2 Tour

RSVP by Sunday, Aug. 2 to Billie Ladd (bdladd@sbcglobal.net), including which tour you are signing up for: Group 1 (10am-noon) or Group 2 (1pm to 2:30pm). Tours are limited to 20 people each.

Lunch will include a variety of sandwiches with chips and a choice of drinks. 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.