Let me first say that The Rev. Spencer Hatcher, Director of the Barbara Harris Camp and Conference Center, will be our preacher on Sunday, and will also provide a forum at 9:00 a.m. on the Camp and Conference Center and all the benefits that it provides to the Diocese.   After the 10 am service, at Coffee Hour, the Wardens and Vestry, in their kindness, would like to briefly appreciate Trinity's staff.  Those who wish can then proceed to the Chapel, where we will conduct a short set of...

Dear friends, In this season of Epiphany, our gospel lessons have emphasized the Incarnation of Christ among us and his glorification – texts that set the tone for the rest of the year.  They also point to the future age – the final age of the Spirit, when, as the Lord’s Prayer says, heaven and earth are joined in God’s will.  We thus, in Epiphany, look forward with faith, even as we endure implacable cold, and the times in which we now live can be daunting. It takes a bit of prayer to look...

by Thomas Hardy Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. “Now they are all on their knees,” An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, “Come; see the oxen kneel, “In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know,” I...