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Today our guest is the Rev. Tuesday Rupp, Rector of St. Paul’s in Woodbury.Tuesday describes herself on Twitter as a “musician turned Episcopal Minister” with “ears tuned to the holy since 1975.” Before serving as Rector of St. Paul’s, Tuesday was the Assistant Rector for Formation and Arts Ministry at Church of the Heavenly Restin New York City, where she served for five years. She graduated with an Mdiv. from Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music in 2013, and holds a bachelors in Music from Boston University and a Masters in Music focused on conducting from Portland State University. She was ordained a priest in October of last year. Welcome Tuesday!    We begin our conversation with Tuesday asking about what it means to be a "musician turned Episcopal Minister” with “ears tuned to the holy.” Tuesday shares that she grew up both in the Catholic Church and the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church; she learned music looking at her grandmother's hymnal.    While she was in graduate school in Oregon, she worked at a Presbyterian church and her “real formation began in earnest.” She found a deep theology through her music. She said she always came to the church through the choir door, something that happened again when she attended the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale Divinity School.    Tuesday reflects on her experience of coming from a large parish — Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City -- to a smaller parish in the “most charming town” in Connecticut: Woodbury. While she misses the collaboration that comes in a large parish with multiple moving parts, she does find the close-knit community of Woodbury and the Episcopal Church in Connecticut to have a strength all its own.    Tuesday ends by singing us a congregational music piece called Arise, Shineby her friend Ruth Cunningham, published in Music that Makes Communityliterature.