Sermons
Recorded at the 10:30. Arranged by the church year, the way they were preached.
Sermons
About twenty minutes each, on the appointed readings.
Trinity season, 2026The Season after PentecostNow playing
Rev. Elias WardOct 18Matthew 22:15–22
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Sundays at 8:00 and 10:30 on Fairfield Avenue.
Design notes
A website for a 180-year-old liturgical congregation whose life is organized around the Divine Service, the church year and a parish school. It is calm and printed in feel, puts the liturgy first and explains it plainly for people who have never opened a hymnal.
Brygada 1918 is a revival of a Polish book face cut the same year Trinity stopped printing its hymnal in German. Its sturdy serifs and slightly calligraphic italic suit a congregation that still reads old words aloud. Alegreya Sans carries the reading text at 18 pixels, warm enough to sit beside the serif and plain enough for the 8:00 congregation's reading glasses.
The palette is taken from Luther's seal: the deep blue of its field and the gold of its ring, set on a warm stone gray close to the limestone steps on Fairfield Avenue. Gold is kept for rules, the footer button and small marks, never for text. In dark mode the blue is lifted to a pale slate so links and buttons stay readable on the near-black ground.
A centred masthead with the pages running beneath it, like the front of a parish bulletin. Members of a 180-year-old church want the site to look as settled as the building, and a centred name says that before anything else does. The one button in the masthead goes to the Divine Service.
The opening is Isaiah 6:3, the text of the Sanctus sung at every Divine Service. The book name and an outlined 6:3 hold the left column and the verse is set in italic beside it, the way a reference sits in the margin of a bulletin. Service times and the one button sit directly under the verse, so nobody has to scroll to find out when to come.
Attend the Divine Service, See this Sunday's hymns, Join the inquirers' class, Speak with a pastor, Book a school tour. The wording follows the congregation's own vocabulary and is honest about practice: communion is explained, and visitors are asked to speak with a pastor first rather than being surprised at the rail.
Chalices, pews, a fanlight and close-ups of glass, with people reading in pews and children in a parish classroom. We avoided famous Gothic interiors, because Trinity is a brick parish church in the Midwest. The history page carries photographs only where we had a fitting one; a modern classroom photo next to '1849' would have been a lie.
Body text is 18 pixels with a 1.6 line height, and every text color passes WCAG AA in both themes. The weekly schedule opens on today's tab, hymn numbers are written out as text rather than images, and the lift, hearing loop and large-print hymnals are mentioned on the home page and again on the Divine Service page, before anyone has to ask.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.81:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 16.29:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.9:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 8.58:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.87:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 5.98:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 14.81:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.85:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.87:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 6.36:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.3:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.84:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.79:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 9.57:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.82:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 10.0:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 16.25:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.12:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.82:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.76:1 | AA |
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