Six students, three from China and three from India, arrived in New York in August 2019 as the second cohort of the Trinity Union Fellows. They anticipated a year of study and new experiences in the United States, a year that was dramatically altered by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Rev. Matt Welsch hoisted the Pride Flag, and offered a prayer, to signify June as Pride Month at Trinity Church Wall Street and St. Paul’s Chapel. The Pride Flag symbolizes Trinity’s Core Value of Inclusiveness.
Pentecost, celebrated fifty days after Easter Sunday, is one of the principal feasts of The Episcopal Church, and is commonly regarded as the birthday of the broader Christian Church.
“We will continue to come together as a wondrously multiracial Christian community to worship and give praise to the God who made each of us, and who also didn’t feel like our claim to humanity was limited by the color of our skin.”
The 50th and final day of Eastertide, the birthday of the Church, the start of the longest season of the liturgical calendar, in the British tradition Whitsunday—all are ways to describe The Day of Pentecost.
Preaching Sunday, May 24, the Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles explores the meaning of the word “accompaniment” in a time of social distancing. Watch the...