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 9, 2021
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About the Music:
The hymn for this week is #593, “Lord, make us servants of your peace”, sung to the tune Dickinson College. The author of this text is James Quinn (1919-2010), a Scottish Roman Catholic priest. It is a paraphrase of the famous Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. The composer is Lee Hastings Bristol (1923-1979), an American composer and organist who served for a time as President of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ, after working for the Bristol-Meyers Company (the family business).
The Offertory Anthem is by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), an English Renaissance composer who is considered one of England’s greatest composers. He is important for being one of the first composers to provide anthems, services, and other music for the English liturgy. Employed as an organist and composer for the Chapel Royal, Tallis worked for four monarchs. First published in 1565, “If Ye Love Me” is a four part setting of a passage from this week’s Gospel lesson, John 14: 15-17.
During Communion our resident violinist, Dr. Maryory Serrano, will play an arrangement of “Songs My Mother Taught Me” by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), in honor of Mother’s Day. Originally written in 1880 as a song for voice and piano, it has achieved widespread fame. This arrangement for violin and piano is by Maud Powell. The text tells of a person who is reminiscing about the songs their mother taught them during their childhood. They are now teaching those songs to their own children, often accompanied by tears brought on by the memories of long ago.
The organ voluntaries for this week are the “Voluntary in A minor for Double Organ” by Christopher Gibbons (1613-1675), son of the famous organist and madrigal composer Orlando Gibbons and an organist of Winchester Cathedral, the Chapel Royal, and Westminster Abbey. The term “double organ” refers to an organ with two manuals (keyboards) instead of the usual one manual in use at the time. The “Fugue in B flat” is by Thomas Adams (1785-1858), an English composer and organist who served at several prominent London churches. A fugue is a composition for two or more parts in which a musical theme (known as the subject) is introduced by one part, then the other parts take up the subject and develop it by interweaving the parts.