Jack Salmon at Trinity

07/05/2020

Here is the Sunday service on July 5, 2020, from Trinity Church, Moorestown NJ. It begins with a prelude of variations on America by Charles Wesley (who may have thought of it as the tune of "God Save the King") played by Vernon Williams, distinguished church musician, and more recently a skilled videographer. Vernon has taken the beautiful pictures of churchyard flowers and today graveyard pictures showing American flags at graves of veterans in Trinity's Cemetery. The service includes the playing of A Balm in Gilead with words but no voices (hey, it's summer). For the Prayers of the People the Thanksgiving for the Nation is used. While giving thanks it reminds us of our need to be healed, forgiven, inspired, enlightened and renewed. It asks God to strengthen our efforts to blot out ignorance and prejudice, and to abolish poverty and crime. At the end of the service today we hear a postlude based on our national anthem and get to see a magnificent display of fireworks photoshopped on a picture of Trinity Church. What fun! My thanks to all who prepared this special video. Other parts of it are a more traditional celebration of The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, with its emphasis on our failure to do the good we want to do as articulated by Saint Paul. Thanks to Mother Emily for her sermon on this text from Paul's Epistle to the Church at Rome.

A service of Spiritual Communion for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost. Trinity Episcopal Church, Moorestown, New Jersey. Find the program for the service her...

07/17/2019

This page is supposed to contain all those many thoughts that come to me concerning my life at Trinity among all the members of that special community, present, past, and any and all who arrive there in the near future. Unfortunately so much of "the good stuff" occurs to me only while I'm lying awake at night, doesn't get written down or shared and is too soon unretrieveably forgotten. I have something like a journal, a write-in half blank book titled "I'm Doing My Best" that has inspirational quotations on the left hand page and a blank page on the right. I need to keep at it. Also I have nearly completed my answers to the first thousand questions in the write-in book "Three Thousand Questions About Jack Salmon". Thanks to Barnes and Noble for these two volumes.

I'm also living with the book "Walt Whitman Speaks", Brenda Wineapple's gleanings from the nine volumes of Whitman's thoughts during his last years in Camden, New Jersey, "as told to" Horace Traubel. In reading this book I have become aware of Whitman's love of neologisms, an affection I share. [My favorite -- not from Whitman -- is "ignoranus" which comes to mind when I think of that man currently holding the highest secular office in the land.]

Well, you see how I wander off. This week Julie and Michael are beginning a group study of Genesis, and Leslie will spend an hour of Biblical reflection for Trinity members in residence at Lumberton and Medford Leas, this time meeting in Medford. There is just so much going on that I have a hard time keeping up and so this page suffers most from the ensuing neglect. I will try - shall we say "soon" - to get back to it. In the meantime you can find some activity on my personal FaceBook page "Jack Salmon" and on the Trinity Church FaceBook page as well. The time has come for me to replace the pictures on this page with others, most of them more recent.

Before closing, let me say how much I appreciate the ministries at Trinity - of
the laity and our clergy. I feel greatly blessed and get a lot from the preaching by the rector, our deacon and guests. I thought Jayne Oasin's sermon last Sunday, "Who Is My Neighbor?" was special in every positive way. As her across the street neighbor in Camden, the late Eleanor Jackal Schuld, would say, "Jayne, you've still got it."

Peace, everyone. If you have read this, you might encourage me to get back here as I do intend.

12/10/2018

A recent sunrise.

03/17/2018

Still holding on to this page in the hope I will soon be able to be more active on it.

We had a super noonday organ and violin recital on Wednesday of this week. There will be two more organ recitals: One next Wednesday and one on the Wednesday of Holy Week, March 28, which was postponed from the big snow day.

On Maundy Thursday, March 29, I’m scheduled to be the celebrant at the 10:00 morning Eucharist. I’m glad to be able to help out at least that much when there are lot of services coming up from then through Easter Day, April 1.

10/01/2017

Lately I have not added to this page but you will find me on my regular Jack Salmon page. Come on over.

Trinity is greatly blessed in having Emily Mellott as our new rector. She and our deacon Leslie Mazzacano lead our parish as well as any could and better than most. In my humble opinion, of course.

08/04/2017

Additions, revisions, updates, and all that kind of stuff are long overdue on this page, but I'll leave it in the hope of getting some time to make the changes In the meantime you might check out my regular Jack Salmon page. I often post things there that could also be posted here.

09/13/2016

Greetings. Let me just say hello on this greatly neglected site. Let me suggest that you just visit my regular Jack Salmon page.

Let me, however, enter an announcement/invitation here. I was ordained a priest on October 27, 1956. At the late morning service (11:15 a.m.) on Sunday, October 30, 2016, at Trinity Church, 207 West Main Street, Moorestown, NJ 08057, there will be a Eucharist celebrating my 60th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. I hope you will remember me in your prayers, and, better yet, be present for this special service.

03/27/2016

It's Sunday, March 27, 2016. Happy Easter, Everyone.

ALLELUIA. CHRIST IS RISEN.
THE LORD IS RISEN INDEED. ALLELUIA.

It's nearly 8:00 a.m. so I must dash off on errands before hearing out to church. God bless your Easter Day and your whole Easter Season.

10/16/2015

Bishop Michael Curry has a passion for evangelism and helping the poor.

08/12/2015

My cousin, Walter William Salmon, Jr., who died August 7, 2015, in Baltimore, will be buried from Trinity Episcopal Church in Moorestown, on Friday of this week, August 14, at ten-thirty. May he rest in peace. May light perpetual shine upon him.

06/04/2015

Greetings. The past six months have been especially hectic for the Salmons, particularly for Sue and myself. That is why this site continues to lie idle for the most part. If you know Trinity Church in Moorestown, NJ, then you know we are steeling ourselves for the retirement to Arizona of Philip W. Stowell, our rector for the past two decades. For many of us it is hard to think of Trinity without him, but we pray for him, for his wife, Susan Mann Stowell, whose own ministry has been exemplary and full. Thank you, Susan, too, for all the wonderful photographs. We pray also for our parish as we move onward through the process of finding the priest who will succeed Philip. I want to say "Philip the Irreplaceable", but we also believe "The Lord will provide." As we learned in a recent series led by Deacon Leslie Mazzacano, in part our prayer can be simply to offer up the name, Trinity, as often as it comes to us during the years ahead. In the same way we offer up the word, Suzanne, and other names of people for whom we pray and who we love with all that we are. God bless you who read this. My prayer is that your faith community may come to mean as much to you as Trinity means to me. Of course, Trinity may already be your spiritual home, but if you are homeless in that regard, then you might want to bring yourself home to Trinity. It is a good place to live and move and have your being. Come receive many blessings and be a blessing to us as well.

01/11/2015

Sunday, January 11, 2015. There will be five Baptisms at Trinity Church in Moorestown this morning. Three at nine and two more at 11:15. We welcome the rector back and will be missing Deacon Leslie Mazzacano, who is spending January in Florida on a well-earned vacation. Today, if we get the chance, we'll have a conversation about what we do and what it means in regard to Baptism.