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, 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.
If you would like to join us for an in-person service we have two options for Holy Eucharist. An 8am service in our sanctuary (without music) and then a full service at 9am in the Bishop’s Garden each Sunday. Simply bring a chair, mask, and a heart for worship.
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 July 18, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
During the summer, our Trinity Kids series will be featuring previously recorded episodes.
About the Music:
The opening voluntary is based on hymn #440, “Blessed Jesus, at thy word”. The tune is by German organist Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625-1673) and this chorale prelude is by the great German composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Chorale preludes, in the German tradition, are played before the first verse of a hymn is sung. The text, in Catherine Winkworth’s translation, is a prayer for illumination suitable for the opening of a church service.
The Postlude is the closing section of the “Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C major” by Danish/German organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707), the organist at St. Mary’s Church in Lubeck, Germany from 1668 until his death. A sample of what the young J. S. Bach might have heard when he traveled to Lubeck in 1706 to study with Buxtehude, this virtuosic work is in three sections: an introductory section, a fugue, and a postlude based on a ground bass.
The Gospel Hymn this week is WLP #774, “From miles around the sick ones came” with a text by American hymnwriter Jane Marshall (1924-2019) and tune by American composer David Ashley White (b. 1944). This text is a reflection on the church’s mission as heard in this week’s Gospel lesson from Mark.
For the Offertory Anthem, Ryan Davis will sing the African-American spiritual “Let Us Break Bread Together” as we prepare to partake in the sacrament. Some of the words of this spiritual date back to the 18th century and others have been added by oral tradition. It’s use during communion services probably began after the Civil War.