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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document Parish of Fan hrc ravety cof New York it | ‘Thursday March 14, 2002 sOBAH SSRs city-mandated Clean-up And Resumption of Public Ministry ‘The Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York today announced that it will resume its public ministry at the 235-year-old St, Paul's Chapel here following a City-mandated cleanup of hazardous residues left by the September 11 terrorist attack. In mid-September, the historic chapel was closed to the public and converted to a 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week refuge providing food and rest for the thousands of firefighters, police and emergency workers at Ground Zero. Trinity said St. Paul's will continue its relief work until Easter Sunday, whereupon it will close to allow the clean up of the hazardous residues from the World Trade Center's destruction. The cleanup project is mandated by the Environmental Control Board of the City of New York. "After Easter and the required cleaning, St. Paul's public ministry will be reborn to address the urgent, unique spiritual needs of a community that is recovering but still grieving from the terrible tragedy," said the Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, the Vicar of Trinity Parish. "There could be no more fitting time to address this tremendous challenge than the season when we celebrate the resurrection of Christ. “There is a desperate need for a place of spiritual pilgrimage near the World Trade Center site,” he added, “not only for the thousands who live and work in lower Manhattan but also for visitors from around America and the world who come here every day.” ‘ Father Howard said the emergency ministry at St. Paul’s would continue for the next two weeks. “For six months, volunteers from churches, synagogues, corporations, law firms and other kinds of organizations from throughout the United States have come to New York to serve the heroic people at the World Trade Center site,” he added. “We thank everyone at St. Paul's who have given so much, and we thank hundreds of other compassionate people and their companies whose generosity ay has underwritten much of the financial cost. Trinity IRS si eae NYC-WTC_000116772