He is Risen!
Celebrate Easter with Trinity!
"He is not here; he has risen, just as he said."
- Matthew 28:6
Happy Easter to one and all! We hope you join us today for celebratory services throughout the day. If you have pictures of our traditional flowered cross or other joyous occasions, please share them with us so we can all celebrate this wonderful day as one family!
Join us in-person today via:
6:30am Sunrise Service in our Outdoor Chapel
10:00am Holy Eucharist in the Bishop’s Garden (full decorations, choir, and brass ensemble)
Trinity Kids Easter Egg Hunt following the service
Attend our Virtual Service below…
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
About the Music
We are pleased to welcome the Commonwealth Brass Quintet to our Easter morning worship service this week! One of the most highly respected and sought-after chamber groups in the mid-Atlantic region, all the members have performed around the world as members of DC military bands. For the Prelude on Easter, the ensemble will play two Canzoni by the Italian Renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli, “My Spirit Be Joyful” by J. S. Bach, and the “Alleluia” of W. A. Mozart. The Postlude for brass and organ will be “Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals” by the German composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert, arranged by Thomas Brantigan. They will also join the Trinity Choir on the hymns and service music and provide music during Communion.
The choral Introit, a beautiful miniature composed in 1929 by the Canadian organist and composer Healey Willan (1880-1968), takes its text from the Song of Solomon, chapter 2:10-12: “Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear upon the earth. The time of singing of birds is come. Arise my love, my fair one, and come away.” The Trinity Choir will offer the Offertory Anthem “Most Glorious Lord of Life”, with music by English organist and composer Sir William H. Harris (1883-1973) and words by the 16th century poet Edmund Spencer (b. 1599), often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. The text, written on Easter Day in 1594, is one of 89 sonnets corresponding to the liturgical order of scripture readings for that year. Harris’s elegant music brings Spencer’s poem on the theme of divine love to life, ending with a delicate, a cappella texture over the final words: “So let us love, dear love, like as we ought;Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.”