Welcome to Sundays at Home
Good morning and welcome to Trinity! So glad you are tuning in virtually for today’s service. Each week you’ll find Sundays at Home with Trinity Episcopal Church. We feature the full service recording, as well as the sermon and anthem on their own.
In-person services are held at Trinity Church each Sunday at 8:00am & 10:30am and at 12:00noon each Wednesday.
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 November 14, 2021
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About the Music:
This week we give you a preview of an organ work and a vocal work by Moravian composers to whet your appetite for the concert of Moravian music to be presented by the Trinity Choir on November 21, 2021 at 5:00 pm.. The Moravian Church, or the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: “Unity of the Brethren”), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century. In the 18th century, colonies were established in North America in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and in Salem, NC. The modern Moravian Church has about 750,000 members world-wide and continues to use traditional music in worship. Brass music, congregational singing, and choral music are very important in Moravian congregations.
The organ prelude is a setting of a lovely Moravian hymn, “Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice”, by Robert Elmore. Elmore was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and organist-choir director of Central Moravian Church, Bethlehem, PA, from 1955-1968. The Offertory Anthem, “Glory to God in the Highest”, was composed by Christian Gregor (1723-1801) and is based on Luke 2:14. Gregor is often called the “father of Moravian music”. He served the Church as organist and minister and held other important positions. He also introduced the use of anthems and arias into the services, edited hymnals, and composed several hundred other musical works.
The organ Postlude, “Rondeau”, is from a set of six organ pieces by Joseph Willcox Jenkins (1928-2014), who served as professor of composition at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He also served as organist-choirmaster in a number of churches. The title literally means “round”, and you will hear several musical themes repeated throughout the work.