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 two options for Holy Eucharist. An 8am service in our sanctuary (without music) and then a full service at 9am in the Bishop’s Garden each Sunday. 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 August 29, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
During the summer, our Trinity Kids series will be featuring previously recorded episodes.
About the Music:
Our guest instrumentalist this week is Steven Temme, Assistant Principal Saxophone of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. Steven enjoys a musically diverse career in the Washington D.C. area, performing with numerous ensembles on all members of the saxophone family. He is a frequent soloist with orchestras and wind bands, and has performed with such ensembles as The Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. We are grateful to him for sharing his gifts with us.
The Prelude is a fantasia, originally composed for solo flute, by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). A contemporary of J.S. Bach, Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history and a busy church musician in Hamburg, Germany. He wrote 12 flute fantasias, which are much like improvisations in that they seldom follow the rules of any strict musical form. The Postlude is the 3rd movement of the Sonata in G major for oboe by Giovanni Platti (1697-1763), an Italian baroque composer and oboist. Born in Italy, he spent much of his life working as a musician in Germany. Platti composed a number of sacred vocal works as well as many other vocal and instrumental pieces.
The Offertory is a lyrical piece titled “Aria” by Eugene Bozza (1905-1991), a French composer and violinist and one of the most prolific composers of chamber music for wind instruments. This piece is a free adaption of the third movement of J.S. Bach’s Organ Pastorale in F major. Composed in 1936 for alto saxophone and piano, it has remained one of his most performed works. During Communion, Steven will play several unaccompanied works by J.S. Bach.
The text of Hymn 660, “O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee”, was written by Washington Gladden, a Congregational minister, in 1879. He insisted on the use of the tune “Maryton”, composed by H. Percy Smith in 1874. A priest in the Church of England, this is the only known tune he published.