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 31, 2021
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Our Trinity Kids series is currently featuring previously recorded episodes.
About the Music:
This week’s organ prelude is by David Dahl (b. 1937), an American professor, composer, teacher, organist and church musician. who served for over 40 years as Director of Music Ministries at Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma, WA. One of his compositions, “An English Suite for Organ”, is based on models found in the organ works of the mid- to late-eighteenth century by English composers from what is known as the Georgian era. These works are for manuals only, as the organs at this time did not have pedals. The prelude is the second movement of this suite, the “Sarabande Air”, which features the oboe stop of the organ, accompanied by a soft diapason and flute. A contrasting solo combination of flutes is used for the repeat of the first section.
The great hymn “A mighty fortress is our God” (#687), by the German reformer Martin Luther, is one of the best loved hymns of the Lutheran tradition. Luther wrote the words and composed the melody between 1527 and 1529. The words are a paraphrase of Psalm 46. The hymn has been used by many composers, including Helmut Walcha (1907-1991) who used the tune as the basis for the postlude. Walcha was born in Leipzig, Germany and served as a professor and organist in Frankfurt. His recordings of the complete organ works of J. S. Bach have had an enormous influence on the art of the organ in the U.S.
The Offertory Anthem for the virtual service is “I Give You a New Commandment” by the English composer Peter Aston (1938-2013). which is a reflection on the words of the Gospel lesson. The Offertory Anthem at the in-person service is a setting of “Ubi caritas”, a Latin hymn that translates as follows: “Where charity and love are, God is there”. Ola Gjeilo was born in 1978 in Norway and is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York. This beautiful, lyrical piece is full of beautiful harmonic colors, and was also chosen to highlight this week’s Gospel lesson from Mark.