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.
|
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.
|
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.
|
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:
Saint Irenaeus (c. 180 AD)
The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the Apostles and their disciples this faith: We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them. And in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation. And in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets...the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord. And we believe in His manifestation from heaven in the glory of the Father to gather all things into one, and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race — in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, God, Savior, and King, according to the will of the in-visible Father, ―every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess‖ Him. And we believe that He will exe-cute just judgment towards all, so that He may send spiritual evils and the angels who transgressed and became apostates– together with the ungodly, and unrighteous, and wicked, and profane among men — into everlasting fire. And we believe that He will, in the exercise of His grace, confer immortality on the righteous, the holy, those who have kept His command-ments, and those who have persevered in His love — some from the beginning and others from the time of their repen-tance. We believe He will surround them with everlasting glory. [St. Irenaeus wrote this „creed‟ 145 years before the Nicene Creed and 210 years prior to St. Ambrose‟s use of the term “Apostles‟ Creed” in a document he wrote to Pope Siricius describing what the Church believed.]
Saint Irenaeus (c. 180 AD)
The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the Apostles and their disciples this faith: We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them. And in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation. And in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets...the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord. And we believe in His manifestation from heaven in the glory of the Father to gather all things into one, and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race — in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, God, Savior, and King, according to the will of the in-visible Father, ―every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess‖ Him. And we believe that He will exe-cute just judgment towards all, so that He may send spiritual evils and the angels who transgressed and became apostates– together with the ungodly, and unrighteous, and wicked, and profane among men — into everlasting fire. And we believe that He will, in the exercise of His grace, confer immortality on the righteous, the holy, those who have kept His command-ments, and those who have persevered in His love — some from the beginning and others from the time of their repen-tance. We believe He will surround them with everlasting glory. [St. Irenaeus wrote this „creed‟ 145 years before the Nicene Creed and 210 years prior to St. Ambrose‟s use of the term “Apostles‟ Creed” in a document he wrote to Pope Siricius describing what the Church believed.]