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 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 May 2, 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:
Our service this week opens with an organ work based on a Gregorian chant melody, “Ubi caritas et amor”, by American organist Gerald Near (b. 1942), considered one of the finest composers of church music writing today. This tune is found in The Hymnal 1982 at #606, “Where true charity and love dwell”.
Continuing with the theme of love, we sing hymn #379, “God is love! Let heaven adore him”. The composer of this wonderful tune known as Abbot’s Leigh was a priest in the Church of England named Cyril V. Taylor (1907-1992), who served the church as both a pastor and a musician. Timothy Rees (1874-1939), a Bishop of the Church of Wales, is the author of the text.
Peter Aston (1938-2013) was an English composer and conductor best known for his liturgical choral works. Our Offertory this week is his beautiful anthem “I Give You a New Commandment”. The text is from John 14:34-35.
One word about the service music we are using for the Easter Season. Our Gloria, S-280, and the Fraction Anthem, S-155, are both familiar to us. But I chose a Sanctus, S-125, that is not. I like to introduce new service music from time to time, yet try not to introduce more than one new piece per season. By singing it every week for 7 weeks, it should become familiar in no time. The text is the same as the Sanctus we are used to singing, S-129, composed by Robert Powell. S-125 is composed by Richard Proulx, a widely published composer of music for the church. Incidentally, the Fraction Anthem S-155 is by Gerald Near, composer of this week’s Prelude..
The Postlude, “Trumpet Tune” is by American organist and composer Craig Phillips (b. 1961), Organist and Director of Music at All Saints Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, CA. This work features the loudest stop on the organ, the trumpet en chamade (horizontal trumpet), mounted on the back wall of the nave.