A Message from the Rector

Dear Trinity Church and friends,

Grace and Peace to you from God in Christ.

We have only just finished our 9 am, “Holy Eucharist for Unity,” completing a civic triduum of seven liturgies in three days to surround yesterday’s elections. You can find the worship booklets for those services on our website, and you may, yet, find the prayers helpful.

As I named this morning, many of us find ourselves in a time before words. Therefore, I will share only the few thoughts I offered during my reflection today:

The torrent of “How Trump Won” and “Why Harris Lost” and “What Happens Next” articles and podcasts and programs has already begun. For now, we purposefully steer out of that forceful current. We gather in the familiar setting of Trinity Church, held in common by Jesus, the Christ who calls our community in love.

Loving God, send your tender mercies among us.

Soon enough, we at Trinity Church will begin reflecting on God’s place in this American moment, tracing a more righteous tributary from punditry’s undertow. For now, we convene in the company of that Holy One who was God yesterday, and who remains God today.

 Loving God, send your tender mercies among us.

We do not dismiss or make light the consequences of these elections, and we will not be overcome by their flood. For now, we approach the Trinity altar to offer our gifts, to share in common prayer, to hear the Gospel Word, to sing the old hymns, and to remind one another that we do not take our first steps from this place alone.

Loving God, send your tender mercies among us.

Trinity Church, God’s highest hopes still summon us. For now and for ever, we bring here what we have, what we feel, what we hurt, and what we dream. We join hands and enter together the stream of Living Water whose flow cannot be dammed.

Loving God, send your tender mercies among us.

Trinitarians, we need one another. From wherever you are, come to church this Sunday, and we will join again in God's renewal of the world.

Peace be with you,

The Rev. Morgan S. Allen
Rector

 

Read the message from the Diocese of Massachusetts' bishops following the election.

Read a letter from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe on the US Presidential election.