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 during this time of change, 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.
As we continue to adapt to changing guidelines regarding in-person gatherings, we have some exciting news for worship options. Starting next week, Feb 14th, you can join us for Drive-In Worship on Sundays at 10am! Read more about what to expect and how to join us by clicking here.
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 7, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
About the Music:
Our anthem for this week is an arrangement of the traditional African-American spiritual “There is a Balm in Gilead”, by William L. Dawson (1899-1990) for the Tuskegee Choir Series of spirituals, Of African-American heritage, Dawson is well-known for his long tenure at The Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and for his many arrangements of spirituals. Although this arrangement was published in 1939, the song itself dates from an earlier time. The “balm in Gilead” is a reference from the Old Testament (Jeremiah 8:22) but the words refer to the New Testament idea of salvation through Jesus Christ.
This week’s hymn is #774 from the supplemental hymnal “Wonder, Love, and Praise”. “From miles around the sick ones came” is a text by the well known American composer and church musician “ Jane Marshall (1924-2019), with a tune by the equally well known American church musician and composer David Ashley White (b. 1944). Also relating to this week’s Gospel lesson, this text is especially pertinent to our struggle with the current pandemic.
Organ Voluntaries
The Prelude this week, “Melody in D”, is by the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). His music was widely performed and he made 3 concert tours of the United States, including a performance for President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House in 1904, a rare event in those days for a man of African descent. Coleridge-Taylor composed several volumes of organ music, including the collection of three pieces from which this piece is taken.
The “Postlude in D”, by British composer C. Armstrong Gibbs 1889-1960), closes our service this week. A resident of Danbury, Essex, Gibbs studied with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, where he himself taught composition and music theory for many years.