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STEWARDSHIP 2026

Greetings,

Use Zelle, scan, hard copy, Trinity website to pledge today!

Your individual pledge can help us reach our goal of 300 pledges for 2026. Your financial support has a direct impact for our staff, clergy, family ministries, music programs, and outreach efforts. Engage in the great work we are doing together!

Our sincere thanks to those below who have pledged to date.

Bill Hackett & Cynthia Westbrook, Co-Chairs of Stewardship

Total # pledges = 234

Total $ = 926,599

Goal: 1.2m

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9:30am Adult Forum

First Sunday Breakfast

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SUNDAY READINGS

First Lesson:

Micah 6:1-8

Second Lesson:

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Gospel:

Matthew 5:1-12

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February 1st

Music for Sunday | 25 January 2026

Holy Eucharist | 8 and 10:30 am

Prelude: Light, Revealing - Grace-Evangeline Mason

Choral Introit (10:30): When to the temple Mary went - Johannes Eccard

Hymns: “Hail to the Lord who comes” (tune: Old 120th), “O gracious light, Lord Jesus Christ” (tune: The Eighth Tune), “Lift every voice and sing” (tune: Lift Every Voice)

Service Music: (10:30) Surge, Illuminare - David Sinden; All things come from you, O Lord -

Jeffrey Smith; Sanctus and Agnus Dei - William Mathias

Offertory Music: (8:00) Préambule (from 24 Piéces en Style Libre) - Louis Vierne; (10:30) ABC

Choir

Communion Music: Karitas habundat - Hildegard of Bingen

Postlude: Prelude in G Major, BWV 541 - Johann Sebastian Bach

Choral Evensong | 5 pm (followed by reception)

Prelude: Light, Revealing - Grace-Evangeline Mason

Hymns: “O Trinity of blessed light” (tune: Bromley), “The King shall come when morning dawns” (tune: Merton Frye)

Responses: Käthe Wright Kaufman

Canticles: Mangificat and Nunc dimittis in C - Bryan Kelly

Anthem: Behold, O God, our defender - Herbert Howells

Postlude: Préambule (from 24 Piéces en Style Libre) - Louis Vierne

Please join us, weather permitting, for our first Combined Choirs Evensong of 2026! This Sunday’s Evensong features music by two young female composers, both born in the 1990’s. The prelude is by British composer Grace-Evangeline Mason, whose music has been performed numerous times on the BBC and by several major symphonies. The influence of film music is clear in the way she develops harmony and texture in her works. Käthe Wright Kaufman is the Associate Director of Music & Organist at Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, SC, one of the nation’s leading Episcopal choral programs. Her Preces & Responses that we will sing this weekend were originally commissioned for the 2022 RSCM summer residency in North Carolina. Evensong will also feature Bryan Kelly’s beloved canticles in c major, notably influenced by Calypso rhythmic patterns, and Herbert Howells’s powerful “Behold, O God, our defender,” which was premiered at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England.

Trinity’s Children and Family Ministries

Dear families,

Please note that this Sunday is the first Sunday of the month. ABC Choir sings, there’s no Sunday School, and the church has breakfast together in Pierce. Donte is preaching a child-friendly sermon during the second service so Children’s Chapel will not take place.

Enjoy Miss Catherine's beautiful photo of the emoji pillows. Learn more about this great tool we use in our Trinity classrooms here!

Upcoming Events

1/30 6 p.m. Fun Friday at Jadwin, Princeton University women’s basketball game

1/31 10 a.m. Tour Arm In Arm at Mill One in Hamilton

2/1  9:30 a.m. Church Family Breakfast , ABC Choir sings, child-friendly sermon, no Sunday School or Children’s Chapel, Youth Group meets as usual.

2/8 “Souper” Bowl Sunday Service Event 9:30-10:15 a.m., Room 206

2/11 6:30 p.m. 30-minute Appalachian Service Project Information Session on Zoom (Trinity trip July 5-9)

2/13 6 p.m. Father Paul’s Spread Your Love Princeton event

TEENS, Interested in CONFIRMATION?

Lent 2026

MORE INFO

CONTACT DONTE OR ANNE with questions.

Souper Bowl Sunday

Family-friendly service event

9:30am - 10:15 a.m.

Bring a canned good for Arm In Arm Valentines for Food

MORE INFO

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Trinity's Young Adults Ministry

Join Trinity's Young Adults Ministry for a Mardi Gras lunch where we'll eat Popeyes and discuss Lent and all of the extra spiritual disciplines that come up around this time. Please RSVP here, and bring your friends! All are welcome. 

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Adult Formation Corner: A Few Rearrangements

Dear friends,

I continue to be on medical leave until February 7, but I am looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday, February 8. I am currently very bored, but I have appreciated having some time to rest.

As a reminder of our schedule changes, we will re-run the Foundations class after Lent because there won’t be time to finish it after I return but before Lent.

There will be an adult confirmation class on Wednesday evenings during Lent that will cover some of the same material, but with a different focus. If you are an adult who is interested in being confirmed or received into the Episcopal Church, please email me at sladek@trinityprinceton.org, or just show up at the first class on Wednesday, February 25 at 6:30 PM (dinner starts at 6).

Yours in Christ, and in Christ alone,

Adult Formation This Week:

Sunday, February 1 at 9:30 AM: First Sunday Breakfast

Monday, February 2 at 7:30 PM at Yankee Doodle Tap Room: Pub Theology with Jakob Wilcoxson

CHOIR TOUR DEADLINE IS SOON!

Our choir will be touring the UK this August, spending the first week at Ely Cathedral and the second at Westminster Abbey. Trinity Church invites YOU to join the choir for the London week of the tour, August 8-17.

We will be traveling on British Airways and staying in London about 10 minutes from Westminster Abbey. In addition to supporting our choir at Evensong and Sunday services, we will have time to tour some historic sites in London as well as travel to Oxford and Canterbury for a day.

There will also be plenty of free time for shopping or your own activities. Thanks to some good group rates, the cost should be quite reasonable for a week in London.

We do need to make a commitment for the group airfare BY THE END OF JANUARY, so please indicate your interest on this Google Form: CLICK HERE 

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Travel to the Holy Land

A couple of years back, some members of Trinity Church traveled with our Rector, Paul Jeanes, and The Rev. Keith Marsh and to the Holy Land.

It proved to be a marvelous and spiritually uplifting experience for all who made the pilgrimage! After retiring in June of 2023, Keith started Spirited Pilgrimages, a business devoted to planning, promoting and hosting unique, small-group pilgrimages around the world for people of faith.

Two pilgrimages have been planned for the fall of next year and you are invited to join: 

• The Footsteps of Paul – September 9-19, 2026 – travel through Turkey and Greece by land and sea - visit sites from the Book of Acts associated with St. Paul on his missionary journeys: Ephesus, Patmos, Corinth, Athens and more, including the islands of Crete and Santorini  

• Celtic Christianity – October 12-24, 2026 – follow the path of Christianity’s early years in the Celtic kingdoms, beginning in Ireland and expanding into Scotland and northern England – trace the spread of Celtic Christianity from its introduction by St. Patrick to its demise at the Council of Whitby.

These pilgrimages will be led by Keith, an experienced pilgrimage planner and host. To learn more about these two all-inclusive pilgrimages – expansive itinerary, roundtrip airfare, lodging and meal details, price and deadlines, as well as how to reserve your spot – visit the Spirited Pilgrimages website at: spiritedpilgrimages.com

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PRAYER LIST:

Please keep the following individuals in your prayers:

Susan Barry, Zoe Beaton, Vanessa Belhomme, John Bertalot, Peter Brown, Jennifer Burke, Peter, Kevin F. Cunningham, Karen D, Chip Dongara, Daryll Eatmon, Gus Escher, Amy G., Pat Grabiec, Reverend Dana Hall, Josh Hannan, William Hannan, Ellen Jane, Patricia Killian, Edwin Metcalf, Nancy Metcalf, Billy Mitchell, Dorothy Morin, Joan Nester, Bob Pietrucha, Lisa Witt Pinair, Cornelia Jane Reeder, Carol Reynolds, Claire Roberts, Jennifer Sanborn, Nancy Slade, Clive Muncaster, Dulcie Muncaster, Dianne Senko, Samantha Seto, Isaiah Stevens, Gary Sykes, P.A. Tippett, and Joshua.

Please pray for the following souls who have recently passed:

Gordon Brooks

Larry Evans

The Rev. Susan Norris

Richard Pittenger

Alex Waugh

Individuals will remain on the prayer list for one month, unless we are otherwise notified.

➨ If you want to add someone to the list, please email Annie Bryson at brysona@trinityprinceton.org.

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ABOUT US: Trinity Church ➨ Est’d 1833 ➨ An Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New Jersey ➨ 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 ➨ (609) 924-2277 ➨ The Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector; The Rev. Cn. Dr. Kara N. Slade, Associate Rector ➨ Website: trinityprinceton.org

“We believe God’s love is expansive and unconditional and that through Christ, God has called us to love one another as God loves us. We welcome all people of every gender, race, age, culture, ethnic background, sexual orientation, economic circumstance, family configuration, or difference of ability. We celebrate the worth, dignity, and gifts of every person as a child of God.”

Please know that we are here for you, to support you and pray for you however best we can. Feel free to reach out to the clergy.