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 27, 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:
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Brad Tatum back to Trinity this week to join in playing several works for horn and organ. For the Prelude, we will play the first movement of the “Kirchensonate” (Church Sonata) for horn and organ by the German composer Eberhard Bottcher (b. 1934), entitled “Intrada” (Introduction). The Offertory will be the third movement, “Canzona” (Song). The beautiful and very expressive “Gebet” (Prayer) by another German composer, Bernhard Mueller (1842-1920), will be played during Communion. The Postlude is an adaptation of an organ work by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This arrangement of Martin Luther’s hymn “A Mighty Fortress is our God” was composed by Bach in 1709, arranged by David Jolley for horn and piano, and adapted by me for horn and organ. All of these works were composed especially for use in the church.
Dr. Tatum has been the Instrumental Music Teacher at Elizabeth Seton High School in Bladensburg, MD, since August of 2016 and is a freelance hornist and private teacher in the DC Metro area. He is a graduate of Shenandoah University (BME), Lynn University (MM), and the University of Maryland (DMA).
“Take my life, and let it be consecrated” (Hymn 707) is a text by Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879), an English poet and hymnwriter who penned over 50 hymns in her lifetime. It is paired here with the tune Hollingside by John B. Dykes (1823-1876), an organist, choir director, and priest who served Durham Cathedral 1849-1862. One of the many reforms he introduced during his tenure there was insisting on consistent attendance at choir rehearsals! His output numbers over 300 hymn tunes.