Beloved saints, In the gospel appointed for the 7th Sunday of Easter, we meet Jesus in prayer with God for his disciples. A tender moment between God the Father and God the Son, which reveals a way for us to see how Jesus cared about his friends, and by virtue of baptism, us who also follow his way. He said, “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.” As Jesus’ beloved, our mis

Beloved saints of Trinity, In the gospel appointed for the 6th Sunday in Easter, we find ourselves still in this tender farewell discourse between Jesus and his friends, comforting them for what is about to happen. While also foreshadowing Pentecost, or the marking of the descent of the Holy Spirit among them…and by virtue of baptism, you and me…forever. Last Sunday, we witnessed three new saints folded into the body of Christ, marked as Christ’s own, forever. And we who als

Beloved saints of Trinity, As we prepare for our first gathering tomorrow, I am struck by these words of Jesus to his disciples in the gospel appointed for Easter 5. Situated in what many scholars categorize as the beginning of Jesus’ “farewell discourse” before his death, resurrection, and ascension, I find it helpful to focus on the instructions he left for his followers. Even before he underwent the suffering of the cross, Jesus was planning for what life would be like for

Not only is Christ Risen, along with the crocuses of spring, Trinity is sprouting. Looking at the next few months, behold -- quite a few baptisms, and for the first time in perhaps over ten years, there is a wedding – well, in fact, several weddings! Appropriate for this season, both liturgically and meteorologically, and even biologically, for this is the season of new life, the season of the winter past. AND, we welcome our Interim Rector, the Reverend Jodi Baron to Trin