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The Chapel of Saints, at Trinity Church Wall Street, will re-open on All Saints' Sunday, November 7, 2021, after a 21-month long rejuvenation.

All Saints is also a day when we welcome the newest Christians into the church through the sacrament of baptism and we recommit ourselves to our faith. It is a time when the past, present, and future connect and the Baptismal Covenant calls us again to what we are to do as Christians.

Trinity Church Wall Street supports LISC NYC’s work to preserve and develop new affordable housing while furthering racial justice. Through the New York Land Opportunity Program (NYLOP), LISC NYC provides technical assistance to cohorts of mission-driven organizations, which in the past have included faith-based organizations, and its most recent cohort, a group of owners of housing for seniors whose buildings are eligible for the HUD Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program to preserve sorely needed housing.

The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas presents the first in a series on Reconciliation as an agent for change.

In our own season of continued crisis, the Book of Ruth reminds us what it looks like to walk beside each other in both good times and bad.

Because of his faith, [Bartimaeus] sees more than the sighted. And he not only sees Jesus, but follows him “on the way,” renouncing what little he has. Bartimaeus, it seems, may understand the demands of discipleship more than the disciples do.

Over the last 18 months, and in partnership with Trinity Church Wall Street, Episcopal Relief & Development's emergency response has reached 1.5 million people in 43 countries through COVID-19 prevention and control messaging campaigns, food and cash transfers, distribution of personal protective equipment and handwashing materials, support to survivors of gender-based violence, and pastoral and staff care.

The story in Job this week casts a focus on themes of transactional entitlement — reward-punishment — in contrast to service and stewardship. The Psalm, in praise of God’s abundant and generous creation, and the Gospel, on Jesus’ example to give of himself in servitude and gratitude, provide some insight into our human and self-limiting capacity to recreate God’s kingdom — on earth, as it is in heaven.

So, then, is God looking for us or are we looking for God? Do we play hide-and-seek with God? Does God play hide-and-seek with us? Just how does this mysterious exchange of life between God and us play out?