The last Trinity Book Group book being discussed for this year is The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. It is set in the 1950s and was inspired by Louise Erdrich’s grandfather, who motivated and inspired other members of the Turtle Mountain Tribe of Chippewa, to resist the Indian termination policies of the 1940s-1960s. The book was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Fiction in 2021

We are meeting in person and on zoom on Monday, June 5th at 4:00pm at the home of Carolyn Gould in North Haven. Please contact Jenny Briggs jenniferobriggs@gmail.com if you would like to join us and for further information.

Trinity on the Green New Haven will present an Art Exhibit, Of Many One, exploring immigrant experiences in celebration of the diverse people that came together to create our great nation.

The exhibit will open Saturday, May 20th with an opening reception starting at 6pm featuring performances by Ekklesia Ballet, Cuatro Puntos Ensemble, and the noted Iraqi composer Ameen Modad. Artists are encouraged to attend the opening.

The Exhibit will be on display at Trinity on the Green for two weeks from May 20th to June 4th and artists can offer works for sale. Details of the sales process available upon request. For more information please contact Bill Pagano by email: paganob944@gmail.com.

RSVP for the Opening Night:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/of-many-one-art-show-tickets-600517101817

No singing experience required! We're bringing our Family Worship Service upstairs on Mother's Day (May 14) and need your help! Our famed choir director, Walden Moore, is leading a choir of families to sing a simple hymn along with Trinity's choir. We have arehearsal at 9:30 AM in the Undercroft to help us prepare. All are welcome to join us. Contact Angela Arpino with questions: Family@TrinityNewHaven.org.

As we approach the summer months, we hope you are keeping the Christmas market in mind and making things to donate. We are looking for hats, scarves, fingerless gloves and anything else you would like to make and donate.

If you need patterns, please contact Gloria Hoda (gloria.hoda@gmail.com) or Candy Carl-Stanndard (pcstannard@att.net). We are also accepting yarn donations.

Thank you,

Candy and Gloria

Sacred Earth Sunday May 21, 5pm Service

The next Sacred Earth Prayer service will take place on Sunday May 21, 5pm, at East Rock Park. On Mother’s Day, Sunday May 14, there is no 5pm service.
May days and spring weather have been so soothing and conducive to prayer and experiencing God’s smile in nature. This Sacred Earth Prayer service will connect with the beauty of spring and the enchantment of nature blooming.
Please note the meeting point will be at the Mill River bridge on the corner of Livingston Street and East Rock Road (GSP 410 Livingston St, New Haven, Ct). This service will include some walking and will require walking capacity as well as foot ware that fits your comfort zone for a walk in the park.
One additional note to further the understanding of outdoor prayer, this Sacred Earth Prayer service seeks to connect with the ‘other’ book of God, the one book being the well-known Bible, but the ‘other’ or first book being creation itself. Come and join us.

PENTECOST SERMON DRAMA, MAY 21

The Trinity Players will offer a special Sermon Drama during the 10:30 service on Sunday, May 21. RETURN TO BABEL by Neil Olsen will be performed to celebrate Pentecost, which is known as the Church’s Birthday.

BABEL is an entertaining and thought-provoking one act play. Taking place in heaven, theologians from all times bring their books to be burned because of their mistakes. The Holy Spirit is called, arrives, and is not what you expected, to say the least! And the Birthday Party begins. Please invite your friends to enjoy this memorable event.

The cast and crew include, Pat Clendenen, Jeanne Kerr, Doris Manseau, Warner Marshall, NeilOlsen, Lisa Omark, Jeremy O’Neill, Lisa Sandine, Max Sklar, and is directed by Rev. Robert Sandine.

We will honor Moms at all Services, but especially at 10:30 AM when the Family Worship Service, usually held in the Undercroft, comes into the Nave! This interactive, shorter service introduces our youngest parishioners to Episcopal rites and traditions with easier-to-understand Scripture, song, and prayers. This is a Holy Eucharist Service for all ages.

Join the fun this Saturday on the New Haven Green

10am

Yoga on the Green

10:30am

Powder House Day Reenactment by Second Company Governor's Foot Guard

11am

Food Trucks & Market place opens-plants, art, beauty, books & more!

Community Tables with the NHV Garden Club, Friends of the Green, Governor’s Food Guard & more!

Swords to Plowshares- forging gun barrels into gardening tools

12:30pm

Rededication of the renovated WWI Memorial & Flagpole

Hillhouse Band and a “March Around the Green” to Wake Up the Green

Amistad's Howling Symphony of Soul Marching Band | Wolfpack Dynasty Drumline



1pm

Town Green Games * Giant Candy Land & Legos

NHV Recreation Activity Bus *Music

Moana reads with NHFPL, book give away

Self-Guided Stained Glass Tour at Trinity on the Green, with organ music played by Walden Moore

Center Church- Crypt Tours

On Sunday, May 7th our Girl and Boy treble choristers will travel to New York City for the day (their adult singers will remain behind to sing our 9 and 10:30 am services, conducted by our Organ Scholars). They'll attend the 11 am Eucharist at St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, where Boys Alum Frankie Segger is currently serving as Head Chorister, Following the service, they'll be the guests of the St. Thomas Boys for lunch at the Choir School on West 58th Street. They'll then head uptown to the Church of the Heavenly Rest (pictured), 1085 Fifth Avenue (corner of 90th Street), where they'll join the Choristers and other choir members of CHR for Choral Evensong at 4:00 pm. All are invited to make a trip into the City that afternoon to join us for Evensong. The Director of Music of CHR is Trinity Organ Scholar Alum Janet Yieh, who is already distinguishing herself in her first few years of leadership in that storied Upper East Side church.

Pastoral Care Committee

The Pastoral Care Committee meets every other month to discuss interpersonal and programmatic ways that we can support one another, in our community. The next Pastoral Care Committee meeting is Tuesday, May 2 at 5:30pm on Zoom. Email Rev. Heidi Thorsen for details, if you are interested in joining: hthorsen@trinitynewhaven.org.

Food insecurity is at its highest ever, with the cost of essential food rising with no end in sight. Please consider picking up an extra non-perishable item or 2 to bring to church. I usually look at the aisle caps for things on sale, such as soup, beans, cereal, or peanut butter. There is also a need for personal care items, such as toothpaste, soap, and feminine care products.

There will be a basket at the back of the church which will be brought to the altar with the collection.

Donations will be delivered to the Milford Food Bank each week.

Any questions, contact Gloria Hoda 203-430-4066

No singing experience required! We're bringing our Family Worship Service upstairs on Mother's Day (May 14) and need your help! Our famed choir director, Walden Moore, is leading a choir of families to sing a simple hymn that day along with Trinity's choir. We have two rehearsals at 9:30 AM in the Undercroft to help us prepare: this Sunday and again just prior to the Mother's Day Service. All are welcome to join us. Contact Angela Arpino with questions: Family@TrinityNewHaven.org.

Trinity Book Group is meeting in person on Monday, May 8th at 4:00pm at the home of Veronica Soell, in Guilford. A zoom link will also be available. The group will be discussing The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson. A compelling account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and more.

Please contact Jenny Briggs

jenniferobriggs@gmail.com if you would like to join us and for further information.

New or Experienced Acolytes: Adults, teens, and children are invited to explore this special way to serve God and our community. Acolyte Training takes place on Sunday, May 7 at 9:40 AM. Rev. Heidi and Angela will meet those interested in the Undercroft to go over the basic responsibilities for new volunteers and also more advanced responsibilities for the more experienced Acolytes. You decide when you'd like to serve. Contact Rev. Heidi with any questions.

St. Michael’s Ukrainian Church is organizing regular shipments of everyday supplies to people in Ukraine, who are daily affected by war – and Trinity is invited to participate in this important work. We are partnering with other Episcopal Churches in the South Central Region to collect the following items:

• Coloring books & Crayons

• Dry Milk

• Dried Fruits

• Disposable tableware

• Toothpaste/toothbrushes

Any items you contribute can be placed in a collection box in the Narthex (front entryway). We will participate in this drive through the season of Eastertide (ending on May 28, Pentecost) – though the need is much greater than that. If you are interested helping to pack items at St. Michael’s, or contributing other items as well (there is a much longer list of needs that St. Michael’s has shared!) be in touch with Todd Lane (contact Rev. Heidi to be put in touch with Todd – hthorsen@trinitynewhaven.org).

"This year's Spring Concert, I Was Glad - Songs of Dedication will contain a great variety of choral music, both sacred and secular. From the opening with a sacred anthem used at every English coronation since that of Edward VII in 1902 to a much more recent secular song (made famous by the group Voces 8) about the good luck of finding love with a particular person, this concert explores a wide variety of emotion through music. Among other varied compositions included will be Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb and Elaine Hagenberg’s When We Love, a paean to the power of love for one another as an example of the visible love of God.

Come and join Trinity’s Rector, The Rev. Luk De Volder, for a series of conversation on the Mission of our parish. The pandemic has brought numerous changes to our parish life. It is time to revisit and renew the mission that we envision for ourselves here at Trinity on the Green, downtown New Haven. As a faith community we seek to serve a number of needs. Renewing our sense of mission will help both long term parishioners as well as our numerous newcomers to land on the same pager regarding our focus and ministry at Trinity.
Join us on Sunday May 21, May 28, and June 4, at 11:45am in the Undercroft.

Are you interested in reading the lessons during our 7:45am, 9am, or 10:30am worship services? We are always looking to have a variety of voices from the lectern! Email Rev. Heidi to get involved: hthorsen@trinitynewhaven.org

Trinity Home Board Spring Luncheon

With Entertainment

Wednesday, May 31

New Haven Country Club, 160 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden

Cash Bar Noon to 1pm | Seated Luncheon at 1pm

Senior Parishioners over 60 attend free as guests of the Home Board, though donations are welcome

Reservation deadline May 21

Menu:

Choice of 3 entrees: Salmon, Pork Tenderloin, or Zucchini Ziti

With Green Salad, Mixed Seasonal Vegetables, Roasted Potatoes, Peach and Raspberry Cobbler a la mode, Red and White Wine

RSVP:

peggyatherton@yahoo.com or 203-273-6118

Entrée must be chosen at time of reservation