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 3, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
During the summer, our Trinity Kids series will be featuring previously recorded episodes.
About the Music:
The Offertory Anthem by John Rutter (b. 1945) is a setting of the hymn text “For the beauty of the earth” by English hymnodist and poet Folliott S. Pierpoint (1835-1917). He was 29 when he wrote this hymn, having been enthralled by the beautiful countryside that surrounded him. John Rutter is a noted English composer and conductor, mainly of choral music. This anthem is one of his best loved and most enduring compositions.
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) wrote many orchestral compositions, including the collection of orchestral movements, often published in 3 suites, known as “Water Music”, which premiered in 1717 in response to a request by King George for a concert on the River Thames. The Prelude, “Air”, is a movement from the first Suite in F major. An air is a song-like composition for voices or instruments. This arrangement for organ is by a famous American organist, Diane Bish, star of the popular Tv series “The Joy of Music”. She also arranged the Postlude, “Rondeau” by Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682-1738), a French composer of the Baroque period. Rondeau literally means “ a little round”, and refers to a musical form in which a principal theme alternates with contrasting sections. This piece is well-known as the theme from the popular PBS series “Masterpiece Theater”.
The Sequence hymn, #593, is a nod to St. Francis of Assisi whose Feast Day is October 4. The famous “Prayer of St. Francis” has received many musical settings by many famous composers, including this hymn tune by American composer Lee Hastings Bristol (1923-1979), who served as President of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, from 1962-1969.