Parish Life
As part of Parish Life, a small group assembled this summer for a trip to the Cloister Museum in Fort Tryon, NY (part of the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue, NYC). The Reverend Joyce McGirr instructed us in the various time periods from Gothic to Renaissance; and various mediums of sculpture, paintings, relics and tapestries.
We viewed the Hudson River as we lunched and received garden information from the museum's curate.
Rev. Joyce, Daisy, Larry, Randy, Christine and Theresa
Thank you Joyce!
A 16th century Calvaire with fountain stands at the center of the Trie Cloister medieval garden at the Cloisters Museum.
Arm Reliquary, c. 1230
Body-part reliquaries were uniquely shaped containers used in the Middle Ages to hold the remains of saint’s limbs, including their hands, feet, and heads.
Pair of Ewers, Germany (probably Nuremberg), late 15th Century
Choir stall where the seat can be pulled down. If raised choir member can lean on back as seen for support.
Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive Jesus, the Son of God.
Man of Sorrows
Niccolò di Tommaso (Florence, active 1343–1376)Fresco, c. 1370
Sacristy cabinet that holds all the vestments.
The Annunciation. Triptych Robert Campin (1375-1448) The archangel Gabriel arrives in room followed by a tiny image of the Christ Child borne on rays of light and carrying a cross. Her entrance appears to have extinguished the candle. The Virgin with her eyes cast down on a devotional text seems unaware of her heavenly guests. Joseph, the carpenter is shown at work in his shop. An unfinished mousetrap is on workbench and window ledge. It may refer to St. Augustine's analogy that the cross was the devil’s mousetrap and the crucified Christ his bait. The left wing depicts a donor and his wife.
Standing Virgin and Child
Nikolaus Gerhaert (–1473)
Northern Lowlands (Vienna), c. 1470
An example of medieval sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary, often shown enthroned as
the Queen of Heaven.
The Adoration of the Shepherds Bartolo di Fredi 1353-1410, Italy, c. 1374.
A garden in the West Terrace at the Met Cloisters looking toward NJ right on the Hudson River.
Bishop Francis of Assisi giving a Palm to St. Clare
Unknown German Master
The Lamentation 1480. The shrine was originally the center section piece of an altar piece from the Benedictine Monastery of Sopetrian, northeast of Madrid.
The Apse from the church San Martin at Fuentiduena near Segovia. Fresco of the Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi.
Mary is seated on the throne of Wisdom with the Christ child on her lap facing the world. A mandorla (an almond shaped aureole) surrounds them and represents the womb of Mary. She is the Mother of God, the God bearer (Theotokos) who brings Christ to the world for all humankind.
The Archangel Michael is on the left and Gabriel is on the right dressed in imperial Byzantine costumes The magi Melchior, Balthasar and Gaspar are at the bottom of the fresco.The architecture is Romanesque and the figures reflect the influence of Byzantine art.
Grace 2025
Annual Church Picnic
Photography by: Evans Roache
Shrove Tuesday 2025
at Grace
Photos by: Akinola Okunlola
The Holy Trinity
Advent Breakfast
December 3, 2023
Photography By: Akinola Okunlola
Fr. Anthony
Welcome Back Potluck Supper
October 14, 2023
Photography By: Akinola Okunlola
Church Picnic
Holy Trinity, Hillsdale and Grace, Westwood Episcopal Churches
September 17, 2023
Photography By: Akinola Okunlola
Kathryn MacCourt’s
40th anniversary as Organist
and Choirmaster of Grace Church
July 2, 2023
Family Promise’s Certificate of Recognition for
Jim Freeman’s 30 years of dedication and service to the Family Promise Walk-In Dinner Program, awarded the 30th day of June 2023.