HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, A PRAY FOR RAQUEL

To be or not to be. This is the question. 

The Newtons are sufering the terrible experience of losing one of their beloved members, Raquel Newton, who disappeared in the middle of the sea while they were sailing by ferry to visit the Satue of Liberty.

Twenty four hours later, the family continues without news. They are starting to be desperate and without hope.

The Grandma has decided to find a quiet place where they can think in peace without noise, and she has chosen the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, the best place to pray for Raquel, who is Norwegian and a Lutheran believer.

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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church located at 3 West 65th Street at the corner of Central Park West in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. 

It is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

The church is a double-height-over-basement stone structure with a rectory, and is located within the Central Park West Historic District, designated 1990 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The congregation was founded in 1868 after splitting from St. James's Lutheran Church. Most New York Lutherans were German in the nineteenth century, and Holy Trinity was one of a very few English-speaking Lutheran congregations. The first church was at 47 West 21st Street, in the edifice originally built for St. Paul's Reformed Dutch Church.

It was built between 1902 and 1904. The church building, designed by the noted architectural firm of Schickel & Ditmars, who were generally responsible for the designs of Roman Catholic commissions or other clients of German descent.

According to the church website, Holy Trinity is most widely known for the Bach Vespers series, begun in 1968, the first instance in America where the cantatas of Bach could be heard regularly on their appointed day, designated by Bach himself, in the context of worship.

The church's Bach Choir records hymns and liturgical music for Augsburg Fortress Publishing House. The church also hosts a soup kitchen for people suffering from AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying with the theology of Martin Luther, a 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Roman Catholic Church launched the Protestant Reformation. The reaction of the government and church authorities to the international spread of his writings, beginning with the Ninety-five Theses, divided Western Christianity.

During the Reformation, Lutheranism became the state religion of numerous states of northern Europe, especially in northern Germany, Scandinavia and the then Livonian Order. Lutheran clergy became civil servants and the Lutheran churches became part of the state.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther