Welcome to Sundays at Home
As we worship remotely during this time of change, 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.
Good morning and welcome to Trinity! So glad you are tuning in virtually for today’s service. If you would like to join us for an in-person service we have started Holy Eucharist in the Courtyard each Sunday at 10am. Simply bring a chair, mask, and a heart for worship.
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 January 3, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
About the Music:
This week's opening voluntary, "The Holy Boy: A Carol of the Nativity" by the English composer John Ireland (1879-1962), was originally written for piano on Christmas Day 1913 and later arranged by the composer for organ solo. Carefully listening reveals that the very simple melody has very subtly shifting harmonics.
As we approach the Feast of the Epiphany, our anthem this Sunday is "The Three Kings" by 19th century German composer Peter Cornelius. It sets an original solo melody over an accompaniment that uses the Epiphany chorale "How Bright Appears the Morning Star.
Hymn 98, "Unto Us a Boy is Born" is a Latin Christmas Carol from the 15th century. The harmonization by Geoffery Shaw is unusual for the Hymnal in that it uses a different accompaniment, reflecting the words, for each verse.
The final voluntary is an arrangement of a German carol, "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen allzugleich" by the Lutheran church musician and organist Paul Manz (1919-2009). The words and melody were written by Nikolaus Hermann in 1560. Translated, the text begins "Let all together praise our God".