Worship From Home
As we worship remotely during this time of change, each week you’ll find Sundays at Home from Bishop Martin G. Townsend and Trinity Episcopal Church. We will be featuring the full service recording, as well as the sermon and anthem on their own. You can also download PDFs of the Readings and Gospel, as well as the full sermon on our website.
We now begin a two week period without our Interim Rector, Bishop Martin Townsend, and prior to the arrival on July 1 of our Rector Elect, The Rev. Jonathan Adams. We are grateful for the wonderful support of so many people who come together to help to produce these weekly, online services. If you would like to volunteer to help with the readings or prayers, please contact Betsy Crenshaw or the church office.
WORSHIP FOR JUNE 21, 2020
FATHER’S DAY
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
Usually, about this time of year, we give the choir a break and shift to summer mode. This year, that transition will look a little different. Fortunately, just as we have come to the end of the anthems prerecorded by our choir section leaders, the diocesan rules will now let us record music in the church again but only using one singer at a time. So, beginning this Sunday, our hymns and anthems will be recorded currently using various soloists.
Our service begins this Sunday with the Voluntary on “All my hope on God is founded" by Michael Burkhardt, based on the hymn tune Michael by British composer Herbert Howells. It is said that upon receiving the text in the mail, Dr. Howells wrote the entire tune while still at the breakfast table. It is named for Howells' son Michael who died in childhood.
The words of Hymn 675, Take Up Your Cross, are based on the appointed Gospel lesson which immediately follows it in the service. It uses the American shape-note hymn tune Bourbon which is not named for the favorite beverage of Virginia gentlemen but rather for Bourbon County Kentucky where it was likely written.
The Offertory Anthem, "From the Eastern Mountains" is actually a hymn not found in our Hymnal 1982 but is in the older Hymnal 1940. While the text is clearly about the Epiphany, it is selected for this Sunday to accompany its reference in the sermon.