St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church

“Jesus prayed for his disciples ... 'Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.'" – John 17:16-18

🕊 9:30am Family Church: A shorter service for folks and families on the go
✝ 11:15am Holy Eucharist: A more traditional service accompanied by organ music

Join us this Sunday! The Rev. Deacon Brendan F. Nee will preach.

[Image: Awake My Soul, by Mike Moyers Fine Art, 2011]

🎶 Keep marching, keep marching on! 🎶 Yesterday a group from St. Ann's went to see Suffs Musical, a new Broadway musical about the 1913 Women's Movement. There wasn't a dry eye in the house!

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. ... Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me." – John 15:1,4

🕊 9:30am Family Church: A shorter service for folks and families on the go
✝ 11:15am Holy Eucharist: A more traditional service accompanied by organ music

Join us this Sunday! The Rev. Canon John E. Denaro will preach.

[Image: I Am the True Vine, by Sadao Watanabe, 1979]

St. Ann's LGBTQ+ Action Group invites you to Stonewall 55: Legacy Without Limits, a Pride Month extravaganza and community event. Join St. Ann's in honoring the past, embracing the present, and shaping the future of the LGBTQ+ movement.

• Date: Thursday, June 20, 2024
• Time: Doors at 6:00pm, program at 6:30pm
• Location: St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church (Clinton and Montague Streets in Brooklyn Heights)

The evening will feature a moderated panel—including keynote speaker Ben Garcia, Executive Director of the American LGBTQ+ Museum—as well as photographs of the Stonewall uprising taken by Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah, the talents of local drag queen, and a performance from the indie pop/rock trio BETTY.

This event is free and open to all, so bring your friends and neighbors. You won't want to miss it!

Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply by this Friday, April 26! ➡️ Apply here: www.dioceseli.org/ecw24

🎓 Attention women of the Diocese of Long Island! The deadline to apply for the annual Episcopal Church Women Scholarship is THIS FRIDAY! 🗓️

Applicants can be of any age (not just high school seniors), and must be a baptized member of an Episcopal/Anglican parish in the Diocese of Long Island. 🙏

For more information and to apply visit www.dioceseli.org/ecw24. 💻📝 🌟
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Last Sunday, the Rev. Dr. Craig D. Townsend preached on the iconic image of the Good Shepherd: "God said, 'I am here, and I am reaching out, and I am calling you. I am the shepherd, pointing you home and bringing you home.'"

Watch the full sermon on YouTube. ➡ https://www.youtube.com/live/SeANisq5zs4?si=adAj0OVs3k5dO0DE&t=1479

A bounty of bagels! Thank you to our friends at Atlantic Bagels Café and Court Street Bagels for making generous donations to this week's Pop-Up Pantry. Come by every Tuesday from 10:30am to noon to stock up on fresh food and pantry staples, volunteer, or both!

Last Sunday, the Rev. Deacon Brendan F. Nee preached on the divine imperfection of Christ's resurrected form and the sacredness of bodies in Eastertide: "Christ stands before us, hands outstretched in peace, asking, 'Where are your scars and what are you hungry for?'"

Watch the full sermon on YouTube. ➡ https://www.youtube.com/live/RlytkXNnf-8?si=ADVXG-LaSy7Qhiqg&t=1459

St. Ann’s parishioner Kyle Pope, co-founder of Covering Climate Now, will preach at this diocesan Celebration of Earth Day! Tune into the livestream or register to attend in person at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, NY.

The Creation Care Community of the Diocese of Long Island presents the annual Diocesan Celebration of Earth Day, Saturday April 20th at 11 AM at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City.

The festivities will include a Celebration of the Eucharist for Earth Day. The Right Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano, Bishop of Long Island, will preside. Kyle Pope, co-founder of Covering Climate Now and a member of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, will preach.

A luncheon at the Mercer School of Theology will follow.

To register, visit dioceseli.org/earthday24

"See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed." – 1 John 3:1-2

🕊 9:30am Family Church: A shorter service for folks and families on the go
✝ 11:15am Holy Eucharist: A more traditional service accompanied by organ music

Join us this Sunday! The Rev. Deacon Brendan F. Nee will preach.

Eid Mubarak! This past Sunday, Afghans For A Better Tomorrow hosted their second annual iftar at St. Ann’s. We were delighted to welcome the community for the second year in a row—a tradition in the making!

Today the Rev. Canon Marie A. Tatro preached on the theological significance of worshiping together physically, especially coming out of the isolation and uncertainty of the deep pandemic: "Ours is a deeply incarnate faith. We use all of our senses in worship, together, especially in Eastertide."

Watch the full sermon on YouTube. ➡ https://www.youtube.com/live/5npxFflOuZM?si=uwEmtYbVdm_RFj5s&t=1541

"Jesus said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.' Thomas answered him, 'My Lord and my God!'" – John 20:27-28

🕊 9:30am Family Church: A shorter service for folks and families on the go
✝ 11:15am Holy Eucharist: A more traditional service accompanied by organ music

Join us this Sunday! The Rev. Canon Marie A. Tatro will preach.

Join Deacon Brendan Nee on Sunday, April 7, at 1:00pm, in the sanctuary or via Zoom for "A Trans Perspective on Resurrection." Grounded in the appearance of the risen Christ to Thomas (John 20:19-31), we'll explore a view of resurrection—and the resurrected body—that theologically affirms transgender and nonbinary experience.

Come read this well-worn story with fresh eyes and consider a new way to see Christ in all persons.

To join via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-yvqTksGdNRmv4upr8rGc7RI2dHOh7X

A behind-the-scenes peek at prepping the sanctuary for Easter. Thank you to everyone who pitched in to make our space so beautiful!

On Easter Sunday, the Rev. Canon John E. Denaro preached on the inspiring witness of the three women who went to Jesus' tomb and experienced firsthand, in terror and amazement, the power of divine intervention: "Our faith keeps us believing in things unseen, and in the possibility—even the likelihood—of divine intervention along the way, sufficient to counter our despair, frustration, and uncertainty ..."

Watch the full sermon on YouTube. ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/live/5jgLw-keYBE?si=vsyz2gyFyEnfUMx6&t=1900

Happy Easter from St. Ann’s clergy!

On Maundy Thursday, foot washing and stripping of the altar. On Good Friday, Stations of the Cross and a sung Passion. On Holy Saturday, the dim quiet of the tomb ...

Tomorrow, the dawn breaks anew. Join us for Easter Sunday services. ✝

✤ Family Church—9:30am followed by Easter Egg Hunt
✤ Festival Eucharist—11:15am with Choir and Brass

Holy Week started with the jubilation of Palm Sunday—shouts of "Hosanna!" and waving palms. Parishioner Benjamin Graham took these wonderful photos of our procession around the block, where we reenacted the joy of those who welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem on the humble back of a c**t.

We now move into the Easter Triduum: the three days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday that prepare us for Easter Sunday. It is the darkness before the dawn, a tender time that breaks open our hearts with love and awe and grief.

All are welcome to join us for Holy Week and Easter services.

✤ Maundy Thursday, March 28: Holy Eucharist with Footwashing—6:00pm
✤ Good Friday, March 29: Stations of the Cross—12:00pm, Family Service—3:00pm, Liturgy with Sung Passion—6:00pm
✤ Easter Sunday, March 31: Family Church—9:30am followed by Easter Egg Hunt, Festival Eucharist—11:15am with Choir and Brass

"Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting, 'Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'" – Mark 11:8-10

🌴 9:15am Procession of Palms, followed by 9:30am Family Church: A shorter service for folks and families on the go
✝️ 11:00am Liturgy of the Palms, followed by 11:15am Holy Eucharist: A more traditional service accompanied by organ music

Join us for Palm Sunday! Hosanna in the highest!

All are welcome to join us for Holy Week and Easter services. ✝️ Find St. Ann's at the corner of Clinton Street and Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights.

"Come, you who have much faith and you who have little; you who have been here often and you who have not been for a long time or ever before; you who have tried to follow and you who have failed. Come, not because the Church invites you: It is Christ who invites you to be known and fed here." – Iona Invitation

Yesterday the Rev. Canon Marie A. Tatro preached on the call to confront powers and principalities as followers of Jesus: "We are the inheritors of a tradition of faithful resistance to the powers of this world."

Watch the full sermon on YouTube. ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/live/nIwmksteCvc?si=16u9XjA7jg8GGqzV&t=1610

Thank you to the 30+ people who came to yesterday’s screening of the documentary film The Philadelphia 11. We were especially delighted to host folks from the wider community. A special shoutout to Seendy, who brought her old fashioned popcorn cart and made us all tasty snacks!

The film was a powerful reminder of the risk and courage required to make lasting change. We’re immensely grateful to the first eleven women ordained Episcopal priests in an act of civil disobedience. Their example inspires us to continuing working for greater equity, inclusion, and belonging of all people in the Episcopal Church.

"The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." – John 12:23-24

🕊️ 9:30am Family Church: A shorter service for folks and families on the go
✝️ 11:15am Holy Eucharist: A more traditional service accompanied by organ music

Join us this Sunday! The Rev. Canon Marie A. Tatro will preach.

Eligible students are encouraged to apply for the Barbara C. Harris Scholars Program by April 30.

The Reparations Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island is accepting applications for the Barbara C. Harris Scholars Program until April 30th.

The scholarship designated for the descendants of enslaved people in Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Applicants must be high-school seniors or currently enrolled in an accredited university or vocational school and reside within the Diocese of Long Island, which encompasses Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties in New York. Successful applicants will demonstrate scholarly achievement, possess leadership skills, be involved in their communities, and have an expressed commitment to continuing education.

The Rt. Rev. Lawrence C. Provenzano, Bishop of the Diocese of Long Island, will present the $5,000 scholarships at a Juneteenth Celebration at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City on Saturday, June 15, 2024. Further details on the celebration are forthcoming.

To learn more about the Barbara C. Harris Scholars Program and apply, visit dioceseli.org/reparations

Nancy and Jane are two of the dedicated parishioners continuing our Women's History Month tradition of "Unsung Heroines": a biographical series spotlighting remarkable women whose lives and accomplishments are not recognized—or not recognized often enough. Check out the bios printed in our service bulletin and tour the exhibit in the parish hall!

We had a blast at the Open Organ Loft on Sunday! Huge thanks to St. Ann's organist and music director, Gregory D'Agostino, for showing us around the beautiful E.M. Skinner organ.

We were so grateful to learn about the transformative work of Rehabilitation Through the Arts! 💙