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 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.
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 17, 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:
On this, the First Sunday after the Epiphany, our Offertory anthem is an excerpt from "Anthem of Dedication" by Warren Martin (1916-1982). This graduate of the famed Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, later returned to that college to serve 31 years on its faculty. We are using the final, unaccompanied part which is the text "O Jesus, I Have Promised" set to the hymn tune Munich. This text and that of this week's hymn, which uses the same text but set to the tune Nyland (#655), were chosen to compliment the Gospel reading. The author is John E. Bode (1816-1874), an English scholar and clergyman.
The Organ Prelude this week is by North Carolina based composer Dan Locklair (b. 1949), and is “The Peace May Be Exchanged,” from his liturgical suite for organ called Rubrics (1989). I have played it many times and I think it is especially appropriate for this particular time—hoping for peace in a time of great political division. There are many stressors in our lives right now, and I hope that this piece serves as a balm to soothe our anxious spirits. The words “The peace may be exchanged” come from the rubrics (instructions) for the Holy Eucharist as found in the Book of Common Prayer. This beautiful, quiet piece is challenging, with double pedal and irregular meters, and has a gorgeous melody over quiet strings.
The concluding voluntary, "Postlude in D", is by the organist and composer Healey Willan (1880-1968), long time resident of Toronto, Canada. Born in England, Willan is well-known for his sacred choral music and organ works. This majestic piece, published in 1958, reminds one of a grand procession out into the world at the service's end.