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 (without music) and a full service at 10:30am 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 September 12, 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:
As we celebrate our return to in-person worship, the music for this week takes on a celebratory character.
For the organ voluntaries, I will begin with the “Trumpet Tune in D” by my college friend and SU alumnus Bert Landman (b. 1958). The closing voluntary is a “Toccata on Old Hundredth”, aka The Doxology, by American organist and composer Robert Lau (b. 1943).
Did you know that 51 separate verses in The Bible talk about rocks? This week’s Gospel refers to Peter, the Rock upon whom Jesus built his church on earth. In this passage, Jesus used Peter to identify who he was, the Messiah, to all the disciples. The Introit for this Sunday, “You are the Christ O God”, is a setting of a hymn for the Feast of the Confession of St. Peter, which is January 18 each year. This tune was written by Canon Richard W. Dirksen (1921-2003), longtime Organist-Choirmaster of Washington National Cathedral. The text is by William Walsham How, famous for his text “For all the saints”.
At the Offertory, our Music Intern/Assistant Director Drew Young and our tenor section leader Julian Baldwin will sing the hymn “Take Up Your Cross” (#675). The text, by American clergyman Charles W. Everest (1814-1877), is based on this week’s Gospel of Mark, chapter 8 verse 34. The tune, known as Bourbon, is by an American surveyor, writer, and traveling school teacher Freeman Lewis (1780-1859), from Fayette County, PA.
Drew and Julian will also sing the hymn “Joyful, joyful, we adore thee”, #376, sung to the familiar Hymn to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven with text by Henry van Dyke, a Presbyterian and Professor at Princeton University.