Our New Sessional Ministry Team Structure in 2025
In 2023, with a recommendation from the Officer Nominating Committee and subsequent approval of both the session and congregation, Trinity adopted a plan to reduce the size of the session from 16 elders (fifteen serving three-year terms plus one youth elder serving a...
Canticles of Advent: Filled Up
Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell Selected Verses: Luke 1:46 – 55 Each year we hang stockings, light candles, purchase gorgeous wrapping paper and tie each red bow tight. We embrace the beauty and the sentiment of this Season of Waiting, sometimes forgetting the...
Christ the King Sunday
Today, on the eve of Advent, we celebrate the event that started it all - the announcement to Mary that she would bear the Christ child. Mary's response to the angels' proclamation is enshrined for all time in the text of the Magnificat, a canticle of joy, humility...
Music Notes With Justin
Ralph Vaughan Williams was intimately familiar with the horrors of war. When World War I broke out, the 42-year-old British composer immediately volunteered for service as an ambulance driver on the front lines, where he witnessed unspeakable carnage. He later served...
Music Notes from Justin
The Introit this morning is the central soprano aria from Bach's grand Magnificat. Shameless promotion - Queens' own Royal Voices, under my direction, will sing the entire work this Wednesday, November 13th, at 7:30 pm in Belk Chapel. Hope to see you there....
Not the Absence of Chaos, but the Presence of Hope
Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell Selected Verses: Jeremiah 32:1-17 I’m going to dive right into our passage today. Let me start out by giving you some context. This detailed story that I admit, if you have never read before, will raise major questions and maybe even...
Music Notes from Justin
Today's music is an "arrangement" (deconstruction might be a better word) by Knut Nystedt, who spent most of his life in Oslo, Norway, where he was organist at Torshov Church and taught choral conducting at the University of Oslo. He also founded the Norwegian...
Music Notes – October 6, 2024, World Communion Sunday
This morning, we sample music from outside what I like to call the Dead White European Male choral tradition. There's nothing wrong with said tradition, to be clear, and I love that music truly and deeply. However, music from outside that well-loved, well-known canon...
Music Notes for Sunday, September 29, 2024
Our music today takes its cue from Psalm 90. In 1708, Isaac Watts wrote both text and music for "Our God Whose Help in Ages Past," paraphrasing the words of the Psalm, in celebration of his wife's recovery from illness. So, the Psalm's famous opening lines: Lord, you...
Music Notes for Sunday, September 15, 2024
This morning, easily the choir's favorite part of the music we took over to Oxford this summer - Charles Villiers Stanford's setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis texts which we sang for Evensong at Christ Church in that magical city. This pair of settings...