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 October 24, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
Our Trinity Kids series is currently featuring previously recorded episodes.
About the Music:
American composer Joseph WIllcox Jenkins (1928-2014) was a professor of music at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA for many years. Prior to that, he became the first arranger for the United States Army Chorus during his military service in the Korean War. Among his many compositions are two sets of Six Pieces for Organ. In “Arioso” (literally, “airy”), from the first set, the lovely Krummhorn stop of the organ (similar to a Clarinet) is accompanied by soft strings. The powerful “Deo Gracias” (Thanks be to God) shows off the full organ sound.
Since it was first published in 1976, Jack Noble White’s “The First Song of Isaiah” has been sung by millions all over the world. “Surely it is God who saves me…” - this powerful message from Isaiah 12:3-6 is repeated by the choir throughout the anthem in various harmonic configurations, with Michael Forest singing the solo verses. This anthem is also a commentary on the words of Psalm 34 which we read this week.
The text of the Communion Motet, “O Taste and See” by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), is directly from Psalm 34:8 - “O taste and see how gracious the Lord is; blest is the man that trusteth in HIm.” This simple piece, written for the coronation in 1953 of Queen Elizabeth II, is one of Vaughan Williams’s most popular and beautiful motets. He wrote a fair amount of church music as well as nine symphonies, other orchestral works, chamber music, ballets, and operas, Vaughan Williams was also responsible for selecting the tunes for the 1906 version of The English Hymnal, for which he also wrote some tunes himself and arranged some 40 folksongs. The result was a substantial and lasting contribution to 20th century hymnody.