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 10am 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 June 20, 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:
This week’s hymn, “O for a thousand tongues to sing”, #493, was written by one of the great hymn-writers of all time, Charles Wesley (1707-1788). He is said to have written more than 6500 hymns.The tune, AZMON, was adapted and arranged by an equally famous church musician and music educator, Lowell Mason (1792-1872).Mason was considered the Father of American Church Music. He is also largely credited with introducing music into American schools. The melody was composed by the German composer Carl G. Glaser (1784-1829).
Our soloist this week is our very own Briggs Williamson, student at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. He will be singing “The Call” by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). This piece is from a set of Five Mystical Songs, a musical setting of poems by 17th century Anglican priest and poet George Herbert. “The Call” is a prayer in which Herbert invites the Lord, in his many aspects, to “come” and be with him.The poem displays obvious Trinitarian elements - three stanzas each describing three qualities of Christ.
The opening organ voluntary is from a collection of Six Preludes and Postludes, Set 2, Op. 105, by the important Irish born composer Charles Villiers Stanford. He was known for starting a renaissance of British musical styles and was a mentor to some of the most important 20th century British composers, including Vaughan Williams. This selection, composed in 1908, is based on a theme of another important British composer, Orlando Gibbons.
The Postlude is the famous “Trumpet Tune”, attributed to Henry Purcell but actually composed by Jeremiah Clarke. Often played at weddings, this stately tune features the trumpet stop on the Great (main) division of the organ.
Interestingly Vaughan Williams, Stanford, and Purcell are all buried close to each other in Westminster Abbey, London.