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 started Holy Eucharist in the Bishop’s Garden 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 May 16, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
About the Music:
This week’s hymn is #494, “Crown Him With Many Crowns”. The text is by Matthew Bridges (1800-1894) an English writer who lived in Canada for many years. The composer of the tune “Diademata”, George J. Elvey (1816-1893), was born in Canterbury, England. He became organist and choirmaster at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, at age 19 and remained there until his retirement. The descant was composed by American composer Richard Proulx (1937-2010).
Once again we are featuring an Offertory Anthem by the English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis (1505-1585). His setting of a prayer published in 1566, “O Lord, Give Thy Holy Spirit” dates from the time of Elizabeth I. He is perhaps best known for his tune known as the Tallis Canon, which is usually sung with the text “All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night”.
O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit into our hearts, and lighten our understanding,
that we may dwell in the fear of thy Name, all the days of our life,
that we may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
The opening organ voluntary is a setting of “Crown Him With Many Crowns” by Lutheran organist and composer Dr. Jeffrey Blersch, who received his first appointment as a church organist at age 8! The stately opening gives way to a rhythmic section, followed by another section where snippets of the hymn tune appear in the pedals. The stately, processional-like beginning section reappears to bring the piece to a close.
German composer and Catholic church musician Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984), a descendant of Beethoven, composed in a neoclassical style. This blending of old and new can be heard in the concluding Poco vivace (1931), No. 6 of his “Little Preludes and Intermezzi”, Op. 9.