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Handel's Messiah & Bach’s Magnificat Concert This Sunday
Sun., 12/7, 2 pm, Church
The Trinity Choirs, soloists, and orchestra perform George Frideric Handel’s Messiah (Part the First) and Johann Sebastian Bach’s exuberant Magnificat, BWV 243. One of Bach’s most beloved works, this setting of the Song of Mary was written for Christmas Day 1723.
Buy tickets here.
Candlelight Carols tickets can be purchased here.
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First Sunday Community Breakfast
Sun., 12/7, 9 am, Commons
Advent is a great season to try something new! We need a few folks to help us with food prep, serving, setting-up, and cleaning up! Join us on Saturday for food prep or join us on Sunday for heating, serving, and cleaning up the breakfast.
Sign up here.
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Choose Your Own Advent-ure Formation
Sun., Dec. 7 & 14, 11:15 am
There are one million ways to be busy during December and Advent. We won’t try to stop you from the hectic—but we will invite you to choose your own Advent-ure as we slow down for 45 minutes of creativity and connection and the bliss of doing a little something which won’t change the world, but which can change our spiritual framework for the season. Choose something discussion-based or craft-based. No experience or crafty genes necessary!
- Lloyd Forum: Make a Candle (or two)! We’ll have beeswax sheets and pillar candles ready to be crafted and decorated to bring a bit of light into your household this season.
- Ferris Library: Parents of Young Families Bible Study
- Angel Room: The Herald Angels Bible Study with 20s and 30s
- Commons: Stitching in the Spirit
- Formation for Children and Youth will continue in their regular classrooms.
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Pop-Up Shop
Sun., 12/7, & Sun., 12/14, 10 am - 2 pm, outside the Chapel
Join us for a festive Pop-Up Shop and discover unique gifts inspired by the artistic soul of Trinity, including fair-trade jewelry, elegant silk scarves, hand-blown glass pieces, ornaments, stationery, and more.
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From the Historian: A Complex Man of Conscience, Trinity Parishioner Robert C. Winthrop
Walk down the center aisle of Trinity Church. Midway toward the altar, stop and look to your left. You will see a stained-glass window depicting two angels holding scrolls. An 1888 historical account of the church describes the window as, “typical of Hope, the motto of the Winthrop arms.” Robert C. Winthrop commissioned the window in memory of his parents. At the bottom of the window in Latin are the words, “A surviving son to the best of parents.”
This surviving son, born in 1809, the youngest of thirteen children, became an eminent politician and orator at the state and national level. A newspaper once noted that Winthrop was “said to have, by his eminent ability, impartiality, and gentlemanly bearing, won the respect and esteem, even of his political opponents. … there was no man in the Whig ranks so acceptable to his party for the office of Speaker of the House…”
Read more here.
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Donate to the Christmas Flowers and Music Fund by Dec. 16
Help enhance our worship in this busy and holy season as we prepare to welcome the incarnate Christ! Honorary and memorial donations for Trinity's Christmas Flowers and Music Fund are welcome now through Tues., Dec. 16, the deadline for including names to be printed in Christmas worship bulletins. Click here to learn more and to make a gift.
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Parish Leaders Sought
Do you want to play more of a role in how Trinity is governed? Would you like to be Trinity’s ambassador in the Diocese by participating in Convention or the regional Deanery? The Nominating Committee is seeking candidates for the Vestry, Deanery, and Diocesan Convention. Read more here.
Nominations must be submitted to nominations@trinitychurchboston.org by Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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Dates to Remember
Serve at Women's Lunch Place
Wed., 12/10, 7 - 11 am, 67 Newbury Street
Sign up at trinitychurchboston.org/volunteer
Deck the Halls
Sat., 12/13, 10 am - 12 pm;
Mon., 12/22, 10 am - 2 pm
Learn more at trinitychurchboston.org/deckthehalls
Youth and Choristers Caroling
Fri., 12/19, 5:30 - 8 pm
Learn more at trinitychurchboston.org/caroling
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Christmas Schedule
Trinity Church Boston is pleased to offer five services for Christmas 2025. Learn more at trinitychurchboston.org.
Wed., Dec. 24
2 pm Children's Christmas Pageant
4:30 pm Festival Eucharist
8 pm Festival Eucharist, livestreamed
11 pm Choral Festival Eucharist
Childcare is available at 2 pm and 4:30 pm services.
Thurs., Dec. 25
10 am Festival Eucharist
Holiday Worship Schedule on 12/28
On Sun., 12/28, join us for worship at 9 am (livestreamed) and 5 pm. We will return to our Program Year Worship Schedule on Sun., 1/4/26, with services at 8 am, 10 am (livestreamed) and 5 pm.
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