Welcome to Sundays at Home
Good morning and welcome to Trinity! So glad you are tuning in virtually for today’s service. Each week you’ll find Sundays at Home with Trinity Episcopal Church. We feature the full service recording, as well as the sermon and anthem on their own.
In-person services are held at Trinity Church each Sunday at 8:00am & 10:30am and at 12:00noon each Wednesday.
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 February 6, 2022
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
Our Trinity Kids series is currently featuring previously recorded episodes.
Music Notes
This Sunday we open with one of the greatest and most popular hymns of the church - #362, “Holy holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!”. Written by British bishop and hymn writer Reginald Heber (1783-1826) and British vicar and choir director John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876), both prolific hymn writers, the opening line references today’s Old Testament lesson, Isaiah 6:3, and mirrors the opening line of the Sanctus. Hymn 686, “Come, thou fount of every blessing”, was penned by the English Baptist and hymnodist Robert Robinson in 1758, at the age of 22. In the US, this hymn is usually sung to the American folk tune “Nettleton” which first appears in print in 1813.
The closing hymn, #537, “Christ for the world we sing” is a reflection on this week’s Gospel lesson urging us to go out into the world and “fish for people”. It’s composer, Felice Giardini, was an Italian composer and virtuoso violinist in the late 1700’s.The text is by American clergyman and hymn writer Samuel Wolcott (1813-1886).
The Offertory for the virtual service is an arrangement of the African American spiritual “There is a Balm in Gilead” by jazz pianist and church musician Joe Utterback (b. 1944). The choir will sing William L. Dawson’s arrangement of the same spiritual for the Offertory at the in-person service. Both of these were chosen to help mark the beginning of Black History Month, which is observed in February.
The Prelude is in the style of a pastorale, a piece written to evoke visions of country life and calmness. Usually in 6/8 time, these pieces are also reminiscent of shepherds tending their flocks in the fields. The Postlude is a tune written for the Trumpet stop of the organ by noted Baroque composer George Frideric Handel, of “Messiah” fame.