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.
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 24, 2021
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About the Music:
Our anthem for this week, the Third Sunday after the Epiphany, is “He Comes To Us” by the American composer Jane Marshall (1924-2019), a graduate and long-time faculty member of Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas, and gifted hymn writer, choral composer, and consummate church musician. This anthem from 1957 was the first setting of the closing words from Albert Schweitzer’s book "The Quest of the Historical Jesus" (1910).
Hymn 550, “Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult” was written by Irish poet Cecil Frances Alexander in 1852 following a dinner conversation with her Anglican clergyman husband, remembering the disciples who were asked to leave everything to follow Jesus. The tune, “Restoration”, is from the American hymn collection Southern Harmony of 1835.
Organ Voluntaries
The Prelude this week is an arrangement by Wayne Wold (b. 1954) of Kathleen Thomerson’s hymn “I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light”, written in the summer of 1966 during a visit to Houston, Texas, the location providing the tune name "Houston". Wayne is Director of Music at First Lutheran Church in Ellicott City, MD, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music (organ) at Shenandoah University. The quartet will sing this hymn, #490, during Communion at the outdoor service this Sunday morning.
Closing the service is “Rigaudon” by French composer Andre Campra (1660-1744), arranged by E. Power Biggs. A leading opera composer of his day, he also served as music director at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. This piece is his most familiar work and is often played at weddings.