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Our very name is a reminder that, above all, we are called into loving relationship — with one another (especially when we disagree), with our neighborhood (because it is the nature of love to expand in widening circles), with our partners through the Anglican Communion, and, most especially, with those we find hard to love.

I’m excited to announce that Jim Johnson will join Trinity on June 8 as our Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Jim will oversee our core operational functions– Communications & Marketing, the new Data, Analytics & Infrastructure team, Finance, Human Resources, and Legal– and the leaders of those departments will report to Jim.

Trinity Church Wall Street announced today that Jim Johnson, currently Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, will join as Chief Operating Officer on June 8. Johnson will join Trinity’s leadership team, driving strategies and plans across the organization, working closely with the Priest-in-charge and Vestry, and managing Trinity’s core operational functions.

The Rev. Winnie Varghese, priest at Trinity Church Wall Street, explains the tradition of burning incense during worship.

Gratitude, Diana Butler Bass pointed out, can be a healing practice for people who have been traumatized. Gratitude is good for us — good for our bodies and for our emotional lives. While not a cure-all, it turns out that gratitude is an essential part of a toolkit for wellness and healing after trauma.

"The coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples, and then the reopening of doors, the rushing of the followers of Christ into the crowds and the unmasked, unafraid expressions of joy, are the very things we have so longed for, that we are celebrating on this Pentecost," said the Rt. Rev. Andrew ML Dietsche, Bishop of the Diocese of New York.

"Pentecost is the birthday of the Church because it's the day when the Church received the Holy Spirit," said the Rev. Elizabeth Blunt at today's Family Service. While we no longer have visible flames on our heads to signify the Holy Spirit—and Mother Beth double checked, just to be sure—we can see the fruits of the Spirit in ourselves and in others.

Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a ministry partner of Trinity Church Wall Street, celebrated the 20 graduates of the Class of 2021 with commencement on Saturday, May 22.

As in the Book of Acts on that first Pentecost, the Spirit revives us, breathing new life into our community and in our beautiful church home from which we have been absent for so long.

The Rev. Winnie Varghese explains the importance to the Christian Church of the Day of Pentecost.