*Source: The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1899), in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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STEWARDSHIP

Greetings Friends,

Stewardship is an opportunity to participate, give, and support the mission and programs that serve our children & youth to our trusted elders and the larger community beyond our walls. Many thanks to those who have pledged for 2026. We are deeply grateful for your generosity and commitment.

If you have not yet pledged, we encourage you to do so today. Every gift makes a huge difference!

You can pledge in one of three easy ways: 

1.    Complete a hard copy form, available in the narthex or at the front desk.

2.    Use the Trinity website link: https://www.trinityprinceton.org/giving           

3.    Scan the QR code provided

Blessings to you this Christmas season.

Bill Hackett & Cynthia Westbrook, Co-Chairs of Stewardship

Greetings!! We are truly excited as we prepare for our annual Advent Brunch! 

That means we need you!! It takes a village to bring all of the wonderful treats to table and taste for all - so we are asking, even if you feel you have no talent in the kitchen, there is always something you can do!! 

Below is the sign-up for a bit of kitchen duty before the Brunch, and clean up after: 

Click the link below to sign up for Kitchen Volunteers & Clean-Up:  CLICK HERE

Thank you in advance for all of your support and willingness to serve! 

Leslie Edwards - Advent Brunch Organizer

Thalia Mingo - Parish Life Chair 

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9:30am Adult Forum

(No Adult Forum)

CHRISTMAS PAGEANT 2025

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ADVENT BRUNCH DEC 21st

Join us for Brunch after Service and the Christmas Pageant

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Blue Advent | 5:00 pm (Dec 21st)

(rescheduled from 14 December due to inclement weather)

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December 21st

Music for Sunday | 21 December 2025

Holy Eucharist | 8 and 10:30 am

Prelude: (8:00) Reprise - Paul Manz; (10:30) Rorate caeli - Melissa Dunphy

Hymns: “O come, O come, Emmanuel” (tune: Veni Emmanuel), “The angel Gabriel from heaven

came” (tune: Gabriel’s Message), “People, look East” (tune: Besançon Carol)

Offertory Music: (10:30) There is no rose - Jessica Nelson

Communion Music: Ave maris stella - Kristina Arakelyan

Postlude: Postlude in D Major - Healey Willan

Blue Advent | 5:30 pm (rescheduled from 14 December due to inclement weather)

Music of the Taizé community

Trinity’s Children and Family Ministries

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! I hope everyone is enjoying the recent snow. A consequence of Sunday’s weather was missing our last Sunday School of 2025. Fear not—your children will have ample opportunity to hear the season’s stories at the pageant on Sunday morning and on Christmas Eve. Family-focused services will be at three and five o’clock on the 24th. 

Please join us Monday at 4:30 for caroling at Brandywine on Mt. Lucas Rd. It will be fun, brief, and there will be cookies!

Upcoming Events

12/21 Trinity’s Christmas Pageant at 10:30 service, No Sunday School, Children’s Chapel, or Youth Group

8:30 a.m. Move on Mondays (will not meet December 29)

12/22 4:30 p.m. Caroling at Brandywine

Spread some musical cheer to local seniors

12/24 Family-focused Christmas Eve services three and five o’clock. 

12/28  No Sunday School, Children’s Chapel, or Youth Group

1/4 9:30 Church Family Breakfast Epiphany Party! Children’s Chapel, Youth Group

1/6 Epiphany service, Burning of the Greens

Trinity Tea

Remember the delicious Trinity Tea — would you like more — we have a small windfall! 

Bags are $12.00 and (good news!!) they are wrapped for gifting!! 

Pick up yours at the Advent Brunch on Sunday, Dec. 21st or call Pegi Stengel, 609-924-4807 and benefit the Trinity Choirs!

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Adult Formation Corner

Dear friends, I want to repeat this announcement about the choir tour, especially since a number of folks missed the forum last week due to the snow. Trinity Church invites YOU to join the choir for the London week of the choir 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 soon, so please join us on Sunday at 9:30 in Pierce-Bishop or indicate your interest on this Google Form: HERE

You can check out the presentation slides: HERE

In Christ,

Adult Formation This Week:

Sunday, December 21: NO FORUM due to the Christmas Pageant

Monday, December 22 at 7:30 PM at Yankee Doodle Tap Room: Pub Theology with Anne and Errol Lord

Sunday, December 21 at 9:30 AM in Pierce-Bishop: NO FORUM due to Lessons and Carols

Coming Soon

Are you new to Trinity Church, new to the Episcopal Church, or just looking for a refresher course? Join us in Advent for the all-new Foundations course, a four-week introductory class. We will start meeting on Sunday, January 4 at 9:30 AM in the Library. RSVP here if you’re interested.

Oregon Trailblazers Christmas Pageant Lunch:

RESCHEDULED

The weather kept us from meeting last Sunday, but we will have a social get-together with lunch from Mint on Saturday at 12:30 PM while the kids are rehearsing for the Christmas Pageant. Join us!

RSVP

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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:

Thomaisa Allen, Zoe Beaton, Cynthia Bellamy, Gloria Bellamy, Gordon Brooks, Peter Brown, Jason Clark, Peter, Chip Dongara, Gus Escher, Amy G., Pat Grabiec, Reverend Dana Hall, Patricia Killian, Edwin Metcalf, Nancy Metcalf, Billy Mitchell, Joan Nester, Bob Pietrucha, Cornelia Jane Reeder, Carol Reynolds, Nancy Rogers, Jennifer Sanborn, Nancy Slade, Clive Muncaster, Dulcie Muncaster, Andrea Sacchetti, Amber Schuppan, Dianne Senko, Samantha Seto, Colina Stanford, Isaiah Stevens, P.A. Tippett, Crystal Vines, and Phil Unetic

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.

RECOVERY MEETINGS: Looking for recovery meetings? See our list of recurring meetings here.

ZOOM EVENTS: Join all Zoom meetings, unless otherwise advertised, at ZOOM.US/J/2859819016 [By phone: 1 646 558 8656 Meeting ID: 285 981 9016 Password: 1979].

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.