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 8, 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:
Marilyn Shenenberger will be our guest organist this week while I am on vacation. She is a retired church musician and educator, collaborative pianist, organist, and choral arranger who served on the faculty of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ for many years. For the Prelude, Marilyn will play an arrangement of the hymn “Lead, Kindly Light”, composed in 1865 by John Bacchus Dykes and arranged by Robert Hebble (1934-2020). The Postlude is J. S. Bach’s “Prelude in G major”, BWV 568, composed around 1705. The “BWV” stands for the catalogued works of Bach and 568 is the number of the composition in the catalog. Bach wrote a number of organ works in G major and that is how we differentiate between them.
Joining Marilyn for the Offertory (on-line) and Communion music (in-person) is Dr. Alan Saucedo, cellist, a graduate of Shenandoah University and teacher at the Community Music School of the Piedmont, which meets in Cox Hall. Together, they will play the beautiful “Sicilienne”. Op. 78, of Gabriel Faure, composed in 1893. Faure (1845-1924), a French organist, pianist, composer, and teacher, is probably best known for his beautiful “Requiem”, composed around 1887.
The in-person service Offertory Anthem will be a setting of the Psalm appointed for today, Psalm 130, by Marilyn Shenenberger, sung by Hannah Glass.
This week’s hymn is #593, “Lord, make us servants of your peace”, also known as the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. The music is by Lee Hastings Bristol (1923-1979), a former President of Westminster Choir College. This hymn was chosen to complement the Epistle lesson and sermon this Sunday.