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 January 23, 2022
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Our Trinity Kids series is currently featuring previously recorded episodes.
Music Notes
On this, the third Sunday in the season of Epiphany, we are called to proclaim to all people the good news of Christ’s salvation, that the whole world may know the glory of his marvelous works. The hymns chosen for the day are all centered around that theme: #616 “Hail to the Lord’s anointed”, # 493 “O for a thousand tongues to sing”, and #539 “O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling”. The Epistle lesson tells how we are one body in Christ, and that we should care for one another. The Communion hymn is a plainsong (Gregorian chant) hymn known as “Ubi caritas” - Where charity and love dwell, God himself is there - chosen to align with that lesson. The Prelude is an organ work based on the same tune, by Episcopal organist and composer Gerald Near (b. 1942), considered one of the finest composers writing church music today. The anthem, “The Gyft of Charitie” (Old English) is based on a text by Thomas Cranmer, a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and, for a short time, Mary I. Be sure to check out the window dedicated to him in the choir area of Trinity Church, above the organ console. Cranmer says that our works without love (“charitie”) are nothing. Finally, Psalm 19 is given a musical interpretation by Italian composer Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739). This majestic piece is often used for weddings and other processions.