About Us - Trinity Anglican Church - Trinity Anglican Church Rochester NH

Comprehensive Christianity

"What has been believed always, everywhere, and by all".
St. Vincent of Lerins, ca 434

A Christianity bigger than 20th Century America

Sadly, history shows us that religion and empire often get confused with each other. The gospel of Jesus Christ is bigger than our 20th century American context. Jesus is the definitive message of unconditional love of God for all mankind. He doesn't fit neatly into our politics or our modern cultural conceptions.

We are different. Do not expect us to fit into modern evangelical or fundamentalist boxes. And just because our worship is traditional, don't confuse that with being spiritually dead or unbiblical. Our pattern is taken from the bible, and we can prove it! The faith we preach and practice draws from the deep well of Christianity throughout all the ages - from desert monks, to Oxford Scholars. Spend some time with us. we will surprise you.

What we think is important:

We Believe that the Christian church and our society are at a cross-roads, so:
We believe that we need to recover a sense of beauty, majesty and the sacred in worship. We need a church culture that inspires and elevates, that reconnects our lives to the Mysterium Tremendum (Great Mystery).
We believe that we need to recover “spiritual formation” and the classical virtues like chastity, temperance, courage, charity, and humility. This is an intentional process and requires a rule of life that includes worship, spiritual direction, and a habit of prayer.
We believe that science and religion are not opposed to one another, but that a robust understanding of the Christian faith can stand up to scrutiny and that science without religion has no guiding ethics.
We believe that the Church is called to be a sign of contradiction (as Christ was) in our society, As our society moves further from God we are not to chase it or conform to it, we are to maintain a Biblical witness and historic worship as a witness to the truth.
We believe that the Church is important, and that you can't be "spiritual" without being religious. In other words, you can't be truly spiritual without practicing spiritual disciplines and living out your faith within the context of the believing fellowship and the sacraments.
We believe that the Kingdom of God transcends political party. The Christian faith ought to "trouble" conservatives and progressives, republicans and democrats. When we place the gospel before our politics or ideologies we can truly be a prophetic voice to the world.
We believe that we are called to love all people and serve them, not judge them. This love accepts people as they are, preaches the gospel of "repentance and faith in the son of God", and then trusts the Holy Spirit to change people more and more into the image of Christ.

A Parish on Purpose

About Trinity

Founded in 1988, the first members of Trinity came from Redeemer Episcopal Church in order to retain essential elements of the Faith as they had received it. Later, in 2004 another group left Redeemer church because of ways in which that church body had departed from the biblical witness of the Faith, In 2016 many of them joined Trinity. Today, Trinity Anglican Church continues as a vibrant witness in Rochester and the Seacoast area. We invite you to visit us and become part of our family. We are a member parish of the Anglican Church in America, in the Diocese of the Northeast. The Anglican Church in America, together with the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Province of America, and the Diocese of the Holy Cross together represent those Anglican Churches which continue the Anglican catholic tradition.