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 10, 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:
The Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord is celebrated each year on the Sunday following the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6. Our anthem for this day is "Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit" by American composer and choir director William Dawson who was a long-time professor at the Tuskegee Institute and developed the Tuskegee Institute Choir into an internationally renowned ensemble. Dawson's arrangements of spirituals have become standards of contemporary choral literature.
Hymn 121, "Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized" was written in 1973 by Episcopal priest, Virginia native, and prolific hymn author, F. Bland Tucker in response to a request for a hymn text for the Baptism of our Lord. Dr. Tucker was 78 years old at the time and had not penned a hymn in about 20 years. It is paired with the much older tune, Caithness, which is named for a remote county in Scotland.
This week's organ voluntaries are based on the German chorale (hymn) "How lovely shines the morning star" by Philipp Nicolai, written in 1597. Nicolai’s tune WIE SCHON LEUCHTET DER MORGENSTERN is commonly known as the “Queen of Chorales.” This hymn occurs in our hymnal in two different forms—its original rhythmic form (#496) and the metric (#497) form harmonized by J.S. Bach and used in several of his cantatas and organ works. Many organ compositions through the centuries are based on this tune. The prelude this Sunday presents 3 short settings of this melody by James Woodman (b. 1957), written in 1992 as part of his Little Partita for Epiphany. The movements are subtitled "Moderately", "Light, dancing" and "Singing". The postlude is a joyful setting of this Epiphany hymn by Mark Sedio (b. 1954), Cantor at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis and a noted church musician, organ recitalist, and composer.