About UsTrinity Hall School of Ministry is a new work of the Missionary Diocese of All Saints, Anglican Church in North America. Saint Brendan's is privileged to serve as the hosting platform for this unique school. Trinity Hall exists primarily to prepare men as Postulants for ordination to Holy Orders as Vocational or Permanent Deacons. This is a work in progress, so look around and see what we're doing. In time, the Student Portal button below will only be accessible to those enrolled in the program.
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Purpose
The pathway to ordination includes discernment, personal and spiritual examination, formation, study, training, and assessment. This pathway is accomplished in cooperation with the Postulant's home parish, convocation, Trinity Hall, and the Office of the Bishop. For the current time, Trinity Hall is only preparing communicant men within the Missionary Diocese of All Saints for ordination to the Diaconate.
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Need
The Missionary Diocese of All Saints seeks to raise up men in truly Catholic formation for a dramatically shifting culture and society. Trinity Hall seeks to equip these men for true sacrificial servanthood at the altar, within the wider parish, and to a broken and hurting world. Humble. A drink offering poured out. Sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Prompt to respond. A moment of grace in graceless settings.
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Formation
Following the classic pattern of "Reading for Holy Orders," the Postulant's formation will be governed by the Bishop's Charge pronounced at the Ordination of a Deacon (ACNA 2019 Book of Common Prayer, pp. 477-478). This Charge will shape the Postulant's study, discernment, and preparation in:
* Spiritual Formation * Biblical Formation * Sacramental & Liturgical Formation * Anglican Formation * Pedagogical Formation * Diaconal Formation |
The Final Word:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906—1945)
Let him who cannot be alone beware of desiring a place “in community.” He will only do harm to himself and to the com-munity. Alone you stood before God when He called you; alone you had to answer that call;...and alone you will die and give an account to God….But the reverse is also true: Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. Into the community you were called, the call was not meant for you alone; in the community of the called you bear your cross, you strive, you pray….We recognize, then, that only as we are within the fellowship can we be alone, and only he that is alone can live in the fellowship. Only in the fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in the fellowship. It is not as though the one pre-ceded the other; both begin at the same time, namely with call of Jesus Christ. Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair. Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone….The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. [Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, seminary founder, pastor, and concentration camp martyr, wrote these words in his book, Life Together: the Classic Exploration of Christian Community. This quote is a profound one for the Monastic Fellowship of Saint Brendan’s and our disciplines of solitude and worship/hospitality. God, indeed, calls us to come apart AND calls us to come together.]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906—1945)
Let him who cannot be alone beware of desiring a place “in community.” He will only do harm to himself and to the com-munity. Alone you stood before God when He called you; alone you had to answer that call;...and alone you will die and give an account to God….But the reverse is also true: Let him who is not in community beware of being alone. Into the community you were called, the call was not meant for you alone; in the community of the called you bear your cross, you strive, you pray….We recognize, then, that only as we are within the fellowship can we be alone, and only he that is alone can live in the fellowship. Only in the fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in the fellowship. It is not as though the one pre-ceded the other; both begin at the same time, namely with call of Jesus Christ. Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair. Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone….The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. [Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, seminary founder, pastor, and concentration camp martyr, wrote these words in his book, Life Together: the Classic Exploration of Christian Community. This quote is a profound one for the Monastic Fellowship of Saint Brendan’s and our disciplines of solitude and worship/hospitality. God, indeed, calls us to come apart AND calls us to come together.]