St. Paul's Chapel News Headlines

They Are All Our Children
A youth-led movement to give all public school students and families equal access to a true education gets down to work.

Word from the Vicar: A Simple Prayer, a Startling Vision
The transforming power of prayer - via the internet - can help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

The Future of September 11th: The View from New York
A panel discussion with Ric Burns, Stuart Hoke, Anne Nelson and Michael Shulan at St. Paul's Chapel.

Music That Makes Community
St. Paul’s Chapel hosts a conference exploring community-shaping through music.

International Organ Festival
Taking place at Trinity Church, five blocks south at St. Paul's Chapel, this summer. Free of charge.

Virginia Tech, New York City Loves You
A prayer for the people of the Virginia Tech community.

Chapel Transforms Interior to Adapt to New Uses
St. Paul's Chapel is to remove its pews on an experimental basis.

From the Rector of Trinity Church St. Paul's Chapel
With the Episcopal Church in the news, the Rev. Dr. James H. Cooper shares a perspective.

Links: On the State of the Anglican Communion
A growing list of links showing the breadth of reaction to the Archbishop of Canterbury's 'Challenge and Hope' document.

Making Hip-Hop History at St. Paul's Chapel
Scenes from a Hip-Hop Mass at St. Paul's Chapel.

Episcopal Church Elects First Woman Presiding Bishop
On the election of Katharine Jefferts Schori.

AWE Delegates Visit Trinity-St. Paul's
During a March 5 parish luncheon, Anglican Women's Empowerment delegates shared stories of faith and inspiration.

St. Paul’s to Present ‘Marrying Mozart’
St. Paul’s Chapel will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth with a historical and musical presentation on March 21.

Bonhoeffer: A Video, Play, and Teaching Series
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life raises deep moral questions about the purpose of our lives. Learn more online and in person.

Advent & Christmas 2005
Advent & Christmas schedule for Trinity Church and Saint Paul's Chapel.

All Together Now - St. Paul's Shifts Service Times
Getting the word out about a slight change in St. Paul's service times.

9.11.05 Will Feature Interfaith Service, Chapel and Sculpture Dedications
The parish will honor the fourth anniversary of 9/11 with an interfaith service at St. Paul’s Chapel.

St. Paul’s Chapel Receives 2 Millionth Visitor
On May 5, the chapel welcomed its two-millionth visitor since being reopened to the public months after 9/11.

Desmond Tutu Visits St. Paul’s Chapel
Archbishop Tutu describes compassion and good works as “our response of thanksgiving" for God's gifts.

Parish Announces Matching Grant of $100,000 for Tsunami Recovery and Rebuilding
The Vestry of the Parish of Trinity Church-St. Paul's Chapel has awarded a $100,000 matching grant to aid long-term recovery in South Asia. Find out how you can contribute so that the full $200,000 amount is awarded.

Resource: The Power of Anointing
A few questions for the Rev. Dr. Stuart Hoke on the rite of healing, by which people are prayed for and anointed with oil. "In a situation of fear or grief, that's what we yearn for," he says.

Resource: 9/11 Taizé Liturgy at St. Paul’s
The 2004 9/11 Taizé liturgy is available here, as well as video clips from previous services.

Memorializing the ‘Majesty of Nature’
Trinity is undertaking plans to memorialize the stump of the sycamore tree that saved St. Paul’s Chapel on 9/11.

Connecting with Loss: St. Paul’s Chapel and the Visitor Experience
As visitors continue to flock to St. Paul's Chapel, what follows is a look from their perspective at what they see and feel inside the chapel walls.

9/11 Exhibit Unveiled In Historic St. Paul's Chapel
A spectacular new "visitor experience" serving pilgrims to the site of the World Trade Center has opened at St. Paul's.

New 9/11 Exhibit For Ground Zero Pilgrims Opens at St. Paul’s Chapel
A major new "Ground Zero" exhibit, serving thousands of people who visit the World Trade Center site in New York every day, will be housed at historic St. Paul’s Chapel beginning May 3.

The Times on St. Paul's New Exhibit
The opening of the new St. Paul's Chapel exhibit is covered by the New York Times.

Ground Zero Museum Committee Announced at Chapel
St. Paul's was the site of the announcement of the official Advisory Committee for the planned Memorial Center Museum at Ground Zero.

NY Mayor Remembers Madrid at St. Paul's
New York City's mayor, Mr. Michael R. Bloomberg, visited St. Paul's Chapel to observe the one-week anniversary of the bombing of four commuter trains in Madrid, Spain.

Trinity Announces Next Rector
The Rev. Dr. James H. Cooper, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, will be the 17th Rector of the Parish of Trinity Church, beginning May 2, 2004. This was announced at the 11:15 am Eucharist on Sunday March 14.

A Milestone Moment at St. Paul’s
St. Paul's welcomes the one-millionth visitor to its "Out of the Dust" exhibit honoring the chapel's 9/11 ministry.

Trade-Center Planner: “I Fought for St. Paul’s”
The master planner of the World Trade Center site, the architect Daniel Libeskind, has told a community meeting in lower Manhattan that he “fought for” the integration of St. Paul’s Chapel into the landscape of the redeveloped site.

Lighting Ground Zero's Tree of Hope
A 21 foot Norway Spruce will reside in the northwest corner of St. Paul's Chapel, to be decorated by lights and ornamnents made by children.

Celebrating at St. Paul’s
To launch the holiday season, St. Paul’s Chapel will host a service and the inaugural lighting of the new “Tree of Hope” on November 29 at 4 pm.

Gail Sheehy to Sign Books at St. Paul’s Chapel
Gail Sheehy, author of Middletown, America: One Town’s Passage from Trauma to Hope, visits the chapel on November 6.

Part of the “Shadow Congregation” of St. Paul’s
Barbara Cohen, Ph.D., was a longtime volunteer at the St. Paul’s Chapel relief ministry to ground zero workers. She reflects on the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

'Light at Ground Zero' Booksigning Event
In mid-October at St. Paul's Chapel, a photographer will sign copies of her book, Light at Ground Zero, which showcases 100 photographs of the ministry of St. Paul's Chapel to ground-zero workers.

New St. Paul's Banner Depicts Compassion, Spirit of Service
A new banner across the front of St. Paul's was designed to be unveiled for the commemoration of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack on New York.

Parish 9/11 Commemorations Include Silent Vigil, Organ Debut
Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel will this year commemorate the 9/11 attacks with events including an overnight vigil, a Taizé service, and a debut concert featuring a new organ replacing the pipe organ damaged by smoke and dust on September 11, 2001.

Children's Author Publishes New Book On St. Paul's
San Diego-based author A.B. Curtiss has written a new children's book on St. Paul's Chapel, entitled "The Chapel That Stood.'

St. Paul's to Host 9/11-Inspired Play
A play inspired by a moving September-11 story will have a June 25-29 run at St. Paul’s Chapel.

St. Paul's Exhibit Reaches Milestone
Ib Lauritzen was the 500,000th visitor to the exhibition on the chapel’s ministry to Sept. 11 recovery workers.

A Unique Opportunity At Ground Zero
A modest alteration to plans for the future of the World Trade Center site could result in enhanced respect for the history and sacred nature of St. Paul’s Chapel, writes the Vicar, the Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, in his column in Trinity Life, the parish newsletter, for May 2003.

City Council Hears Vicar on St. Paul's
A statement by the Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, vicar, addressing the New York City Council Select Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment on Janurary 24, 2003. The vicar urges the council to properly integrate St. Paul's Chapel with plans for the World Trade Center site.

Fine-Tuned Prayer Services For Chapel Near WTC Site
While residents and workers in lower Manhattan go about their daily routine, out-of-town visitors gather in packs along Church Street, craning their necks to imagine where the towers were. Tour operators snake larger groups through the crowds while vendors sell 9-11 trinkets.

Christmas Choir & Worship Schedule
First Eucharist of Christmas, with carol-singing. 4 pm, Christmas Eve. See full schedule of Parish services here.

On The Fence
In the debate over what to do with 9-11 memorial items on the St. Paul's fence, everyone agreed a good fence made for good neighbors. The disagreement was over what made a good fence.

Share Your Thoughts on St. Paul's
The New York Times has published an article describing those who believe the spontaneous memorial on the fence of St. Paul's Chapel should remain, and those who believe it should be removed. As the article makes clear, the Parish needs to hear the voices of others to find resolution.

Tributes to Fr. Harris
The Parish of Trinity Church paid tribute to the Rev. Lyndon Harris, associate for ministry at St. Paul’s Chapel, on Tuesday October 8, ahead of Fr. Harris’s return to the General Theological Seminary, New York, to complete his doctoral studies.

Anniversary Day
On this September 11, Trinity Church opened an exhibit at St. Paul's Chapel to honor the ministry to ground-zero workers that began there after the horrors of that September 11.

St. Paul’s Exhibition Puts Visitors Inside a Ministry
In bright, swirling letters, one banner reads “Peace,” and another, “Courage.” Another reads “Oklahoma City Loves You.”

St. Paul's Chapel Open To Public
St. Paul's Chapel opened fully to the public on August 25, 2002, for the first time since September 11, 2001. Visiting hours are 10am-6pm weekdays (10am-4pm Sundays), with Eucharist at 12 noon on weekdays, and 8 am Sundays.

Celebrating the Relief Ministry at Saint Paul's Chapel
A homily by the Rev. Lyndon Harris, associate for ministry at St. Paul's Chapel, at the service marking the formal closing of St. Paul's Chapel and its ministry to rescue workers at ground zero.

St. Paul’s Ministry Ends at Service
The last meals will be served, the last feet will be cared for, and the last interaction between doting volunteers and ground-zero workers will take place inside the chapel’s walls.

Before Closing, St. Paul's to Hold 'Service of Thanksgiving'
St. Paul's Chapel, the downtown chapel of Trinity Church, Wall Street, which has been operating an around-the-clock relief ministry for recovery workers at the World Trade Center site, will hold a final public service of thanksgiving at the chapel on Wednesday, May 29, at 12 noon.

St. Paul's Relief Operation to Continue
In response to an urgent appeal from the City of New York, St. Paul's will continue its relief operation.

St. Paul's Sets City-Mandated Clean-up And Resumption of Public Ministry
The Parish of Trinity Church announces the resumption of public ministry at the 235-year-old St. Paul's Chapel following a City-mandated cleanup of hazardous residues left by the September 11 terrorist attack.

Night Shift at St. Paul's
Why, five months after the attack on the World Trade Center, do volunteers still find service at the chapel so meaningful? J. Chester Johnson, a member of the congregation and Vestry of Trinity Parish, shares his experience.

Evaluating a Ministry for the Future
The Parish of Trinity Church is in the midst of a comprehensive evaluation of what forms of ministry need to be developed in response to the devastating loss of life and destruction in the downtown Manhattan community.

Mayor’s Vision for WTC Memorial Revealed as St. Paul’s Hosts Giuliani’s Goodbye
On Thursday, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani visited St. Paul’s to give thanks to New York, and to say goodbye to the office that was his for eight years. The mayor spoke of the chapel’s “thrice-hallowed ground.”

Christmas Services at Trinity and St. Paul's
Services at St. Paul's Chapel have been added to Trinity's Christmas service schedule. See details here.

St. Paul’s Chapel in Wake of WTC Disaster: "An Organic New Ministry Finds Us"
St Paul's Chapel, Broadway, part of the Parish of Trinity Church, has been developing a new ministry to younger New Yorkers in recent months. Since September 11, a new ministry has found St. Paul's. Kathryn Soman reports.

Rescue Work Was 'Spirit-Lifting' -- Trinity Priest
The World Trade Center attack left Trinity Wall Street, in the words of the Rector, Dr. Daniel P. Matthews, "reeling with the shock of what has hit us..." Disruption of Trinity's activities was so extensive that one priest described Trinity’s family as "displaced people". Nevertheless, ministry continued despite the lack of central co-ordination for the first few days.

New Ministry at St. Paul's: Something to Get Jazzed Up About"
The movie clips and jazz band seen at the new services in St. Paul's Chapel aren't simply cosmetic changes. They represent an attempt to make our beliefs and traditions accessible to a new generation of people seeking God, reports Hannah Callaway, a sophomore at Carleton College, MN.

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