Welcome to Sundays at Home
Good morning and welcome to Trinity! So glad you are tuning in virtually for today’s service. As we worship remotely, each week you’ll find Sundays at Home with Trinity Episcopal Church. We will be featuring the full service recording, as well as the sermon and anthem on their own.
If you would like to join us for an in-person service we have started Holy Eucharist in the Courtyard each Sunday at 10am. Simply bring a chair, mask, and a heart for worship.
Once again, thank you for tuning in and for being faithful with your time, talents, and treasures.
Grace and Peace!
Rev. Jonathan V. Adams
Worship for April 11, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
About the Music:
In hymn 209 in The Hymnal 1982, Henry Alford (1810-1871) offers words about walking in faith: “We walk by faith, and not by sight; …” God has given us a new birth through the Resurrection, an Easter Hope, and when we see the signs of hope he asks us to believe, and to tell the others so that they may share in that Hope.
Another hymn about the promise of spring and the hope of Easter is the lovely “In the Bulb There Is A Flower”, with words and music by Natalie Sleeth (1930-1992), a well known composer of anthems for choirs. She was especially noted for her compositions for children. Hannah Glass, our alto section leader, will sing this for our Offertory Anthem this week.
Composed as a choral anthem entitled “Hymn of Promise” and first performed in 1985, the hymn was included in The United Methodist Hymnal, published in 1989, and later was included in the hymnal Celebrating Grace in 2010. It was written at a time when the author states that she was "pondering the ideas of life, death, spring and winter, Good Friday and Easter, and the whole reawakening of the world that happens every spring."
“In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; in cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter there’s a spring that waits to be, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.”
The organ voluntaries this week include the “Voluntary in D” by William Boyce (1711-1779), a choirboy at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, who was later appointed the Master of the King’s Musick in 1757 and an organist of the Chapel Royal in 1758. The term “voluntary” simply refers to a composition in free style to be used in the church service, as opposed to one based on a plainsong (Gregorian Chant) melody. This voluntary opens with a slow movement, followed by a faster one using a trumpet stop with a softer accompaniment. Our organ has three separate trumpet stops. Here I am using the Trumpet on the Great manual, or main keyboard, for the solo voice. The closing voluntary is based on the Easter hymn “Good Christians all, rejoice and sing”, #205 in our hymnal, and is composed by the English/Canadian composer Healey Willan (1880-1968). Best known for his church music, Wilan composed over 800 works in all. Here I am playing the hymn melody in the left hand, on the loudest trumpet stop on the organ - the Trumpet en Chamade, or horizontal trumpet, on the back wall of the nave.