For its delightful end-of-season concert, the Trinity Youth Chorus performs a range of music, from folk songs and pop standards to show tunes and a reinterpretation of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” Conducted by Peyton Marion, Sheridan Stevens, and Shanna Whitney.
“How do we recognize the power of the Holy Spirit?" asked The Rt. Rev. Mary D. Glasspool, Assistant Bishop of New York, in her sermon on Pentecost Sunday.
Falling 50 days after Easter, Pentecost is known as the birthday of the Christian church–the fulfillment of Jesus’s promise to send the Holy Spirit to his followers as their helper and guide.
Father Bird reminds us that we are in the world and are meant to be in the world. Ascension Day, which fell on the Thursday before Sunday’s sermon, tells the story of Jesus’s bodily ascension into heaven, where he brings earth and humanity to join with God.
Holy Eucharist according to Rite Two in the Book of Common Prayer.
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Today we celebrate Ascension Day, which commemorates the ascension of Christ into heaven after he rose from the dead. Ascension Day also marks the anniversary of the consecration of the current Trinity Church building in 1846.
