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 21, 2021
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About the Music:
This Sunday, November 21, is the last day of the year on the Christian calendar. Roman Catholics and many Protestant denominations celebrate this as Christ the King Sunday. This feast was established in 1925 by Pope Pius XI.Originally celebrated on the Sunday before All Saints, it was moved to the last Sunday of the Christian year in 1970.
The congregational hymns this week are all favorites for Christ the King, with a nod to Thanksgiving.”Crown Him With Many Crowns”, #494, written in 1825, is one of the best. Notice how each stanza describes Christ in different ways. The tune name, Diademata, means crowns. And it’s a most stirring tune at that! Hymn #454, “Jesus came, adored by angels” has something in common with “Crown Him” - author Godfrey Thring wrote the words for some of the verses of #494 as well as the text of #454. Bringing the service to a triumphant close is one of the grandest hymns of all, “Now Thank We All Our God”. Many people had a hand in the development of this hymn - the author, Martin Rinckart; the translator from the original German, Catherine Winkworth; the German composer of the melody, Johann Cruger; and the harmonizers of the tune, William Henry Monk and Felix Mendelssohn.
The organ voluntaries this week are both based on hymns of the day. The Prelude, a rhythmic setting of the opening hymn, is by Jeffrey Blersch. He is a lifelong Lutheran church musician, composer, and college professor. The triumphal march on “Now Thank We All Our God” was written in 1908 by Sigfrid Karg-Elert, a German composer best known for his organ works. His favorite instrument to compose for was the reed organ (pump organ), also known as the harmonium.
One of the most popular anthems of all time, “E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come” directly relates to this week's Epistle lesson from the Book of Revelation.Composed by Lutheran church musician Paul Manz in 1953 to a text adapted by his wife, Ruth, this piece is one of the best selling anthems of all time.