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.
Starting this week, we welcome you back to full, in-person worship services with us at Trinity. We have two options for Holy Eucharist. An 8am service (Rite I) and a larger service at 10:30am (Rite II) each Sunday.
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 October 17, 2021
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Our Trinity Kids series is currently featuring previously recorded episodes.
About the Music:
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) was an Irish composer, teacher, and conductor. Born in Dublin, he was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was appointed as organist at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1882 at age 29 and was appointed the first professor of music composition/orchestral conducting at the newly formed Royal College of Music in London. He had a profound influence on many of the leading musicians and composers of the late 19th and early to mid 20th century, including his students Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, and Frank Bridge.
Stanford composed a substantial number of concert works, including seven symphonies, but his best-remembered pieces are his choral works for church performance, chiefly composed in the Anglican tradition. He was a dedicated composer of opera, but none of his nine completed operas has endured in the general repertory. Some critics regarded Stanford, together with Hubert Parry and Alexander Mackenzie, as responsible for a renaissance in music from the British Isles. His choral works, along with his organ works, to a somewhat lesser degree, remain highly significant in the music lists of countless cathedrals and churches.
Stanford’s “Six Short Preludes and Postludes, Set 1, Opus 101” for organ was published in 1907 by Stainer and Bell, London. For the Prelude, No. 1 “Allegretto in F major” sets a lovely light-hearted melody in 6/8 time. As the Postlude, No. 2 “Allegro non troppo e pesante” displays a brisk energy and dramatic drive as well as a strong Germanic influence.
American composer and educator Rene Clausen (b. 1953) is conductor emeritus of the Concordia Choir, and professor of music at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. His works are widely performed by high school, church, college, and professional choirs. This week’s Offertory Anthem, “Set Me As a Seal” is a beautiful and expressive piece, one of his very best that has reached the level of a classic: “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love; neither can the floods drown it.” Song of Songs 8:6a; 8:7a
Hymn #655, “O Jesus, I have promised” was written by John Ernest Bode (1816-1874), a priest of the Church of England and a gifted English poet and hymn writer who was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. This text was joined to the Finnish folk tune “Nyland” in The Hymnal 1982, for which it was adapted by David Evans (1874-1948). Evans, an important leader in Welsh church music, served as professor of music at University College in Cardiff for 36 years. The last stanza is a reflection on the Gospel passage for Sunday, in which Jesus tells the disciples that those who wish to be with Him in glory must be servants of all and follow Him. A setting of this text by Warren Martin serves as the virtual service anthem this week.