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.
If you would like to join us for an in-person service we have started Holy Eucharist in the Courtyard each Sunday at 10am. 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 March 7, 2021
The Third Sunday in Lent
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
About the Music:
Continuing the series of Preludes from the French Baroque tradition, this week’s offering is the “Trio en Passacaille” of Andre Raison (c. 1640-1719). This composition is based on an eight note melodic pattern used as a ground bass, or recurring subject in the bass line, and would have been played in alternation with the plainsong chant sung by the choir. It is followed by the Palestrina motet “Adoramus te”, whose text is from a stanza that is sung or recited during the Stations of the Cross.
Hymn 574 , “Before Thy throne, O God, we kneel” was written by an Anglican clergyman and Bishop who was chaplain to Queen Victoria. The tune, St. Petersburg, is named for the Russian city where composer Dimitri Bortniansky served as Director of the Imperial Chapel Choir.
Chosen to highlight the Old Testament lesson, this week’s anthem is “Teach Me, O Lord” by Thomas Attwood (1765-1838). The text is from Psalm 119:33 - “Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end”. Attwood was appointed organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, in 1796 and is buried there.
The concluding voluntary, “Psalm 19” by Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739), is a majestic march often played at weddings. It is based on today’s Psalm text “The heavens declare the glory of God”. Marcello was a contemporary of Vivaldi in the Baroque era.