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 |
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The Final Word:
Saint Cyprian of Carthage (d. 258 AD)
I used to regard it as a difficult matter (and especially diffi-cult because of my character at that time) that a man could be capable of being born again. Yet, this was a truth that the Divine Mercy had announced for my salvation. I thought it difficult that a man quickened to a new life in the bath of saving water would be able to put off what he had previously been. That is, although retaining all his bodily structure, he himself could be changed in heart and soul. I said, ―How is such a conversion possible, that there could be a sudden and rapid divestment of all my corrupt habits?‖ ...I used to indulge my sins as if they were actually parts of me and na-tive to me. But after that, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above—serene and pure—had been infused into my reconciled heart. Then, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, this second birth restored me, as it were, to a new man. ...I was enabled to acknowledge that what I had been previously living in the practice of sins (being born in the flesh) was of the earth and was earthly. But now I had be-gun to be of God and was enlivened by the Spirit of holiness.
[Saint Cyprian was Bishop of the church in Carthage, North Africa, during a period of fierce Chris-tian persecution. He often had to work underground and was eventually captured and executed by the Romans. An extensive collection of letters written by and to Cyprian still remains, along with various treatises written by him. These works give tremendous insight into the structure of the Church in the middle of the third century.]
Saint Cyprian of Carthage (d. 258 AD)
I used to regard it as a difficult matter (and especially diffi-cult because of my character at that time) that a man could be capable of being born again. Yet, this was a truth that the Divine Mercy had announced for my salvation. I thought it difficult that a man quickened to a new life in the bath of saving water would be able to put off what he had previously been. That is, although retaining all his bodily structure, he himself could be changed in heart and soul. I said, ―How is such a conversion possible, that there could be a sudden and rapid divestment of all my corrupt habits?‖ ...I used to indulge my sins as if they were actually parts of me and na-tive to me. But after that, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above—serene and pure—had been infused into my reconciled heart. Then, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, this second birth restored me, as it were, to a new man. ...I was enabled to acknowledge that what I had been previously living in the practice of sins (being born in the flesh) was of the earth and was earthly. But now I had be-gun to be of God and was enlivened by the Spirit of holiness.
[Saint Cyprian was Bishop of the church in Carthage, North Africa, during a period of fierce Chris-tian persecution. He often had to work underground and was eventually captured and executed by the Romans. An extensive collection of letters written by and to Cyprian still remains, along with various treatises written by him. These works give tremendous insight into the structure of the Church in the middle of the third century.]