Trinity Profile - 2026

WORSHIP & MUSIC

2026

Worship & Music

At Trinity Church, our main location (North Adams St.), we host three services on Sunday: - 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with piano in chapel/Rite II - 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with pipe organ and choir in nave/Rite II - Noon/mediodía Santa Eucaristía en español en Trinity Church At our Old Swedes location, every Saturday evening: - 5:00pm – Holy Eucharist with pipe organ/Rite II Trinity Parish celebrates Holy Week with services on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. Trinity Parish holds special services throughout the year, including, Reyes Magos (January 6), All Saints Sunday, Dia de los Santos Difuntos (November 2), Fiesta Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (December 12), an annual Spanish-English bilingual service bringing together all worshippers, and Los Posadas occurring throughout Advent. Also, a service for Thanksgiving Eve is held at our Old Swedes location, along with a Blue Christmas service. Multiple Christmas Eve services occur at both locations, plus a Christmas Day Eucharist. Christmas Eve includes the annual Christmas Pageant. Roles are open to interested members and include: - Chalice Bearers - Master of Ceremonies - Acolytes - Lectors/Intercessors - Ushers - Altar Guild - Flower Arrangers Guild - AV Operator

At our Trinity Church location, the 10:00 a.m. weekly service is streamed online via our Facebook and YouTube pages. Sunday School for children is held during the 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. services at Trinity Church. The Sunday School dismisses just prior to Communion, where children are returned to the nave. Our choir Director, David Simmons, leads a choir of twelve volunteer members and six paid sta singers, and they sing in the worship service from Labor Day through Trinity Sunday in June. Trinity Church has a three-manual Austin pipe organ, and Old Swedes uses a two-manual Austin pipe organ. In addition, Trinity Church uses a nine-foot Steinway Concert Grand “D” piano in the nave, one of ve pianos among the two properties. The weekly 8:00 a.m. service is piano-only and is celebrated in our chapel, adjacent to the nave. The 10:00 a.m. service includes worship with the pipe organ, piano, and the choir and is often supplemented by additional instrumentalists (brass, strings, woodwinds, percussion) for holy/festival days throughout the year. Our noon Spanish-language service is accompanied by two guitars, piano, and two paid lead singers each week. The weekly service at Old Swedes is accompanied by the pipe organ. Finally, musical accompaniment in worship services includes our handbell ensemble The Trinity Ringers, who, using a three-octave set of bells, which plays about six times annually.

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