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 (Rite I) and a larger service at 10:30am (Rite II) 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 26, 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:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) figures prominently in our music this week. The Prelude is #1 of his 12 Voluntaries for Organ or Harpsichord, the “Trumpet Voluntary in C Major”. Voluntaries at this time were two movement works, a slow movement on the diapasons followed by a fast movement using a solo stop such as a trumpet. Hymn 546, “Awake my soul, stretch every nerve”, is a marriage of a text by English clergyman Philip Dodderidge to a tune by Handel. Although born in Germany, Handel settled in England in 1713 where he wrote this tune in 1728. He wrote quite a bit of instrumental music, but is best known for his oratorios including the popular “Messiah” of 1741. During Communion, our soprano section leader, Jennifer Gordon, sings the reassuring aria from Part III of Messiah, “If God Be For Us, Who Can Be Against Us?”, which relates to the Gospel reading from Mark. The text is taken from Romans 8:31-34.
The Trinity Choir sings a rousing setting of the great hymn text “Fight the Good Fight” as the 10:30 Offertory Anthem this Sunday. The text is by Irish Anglican priest John S. B. Monsell (1811-1875), a prolific hymn writer. He wrote 11 published volumes of poetry and about 300 hymn texts. The musical setting is by English composer John Gardner (1917-2011). Listen to the rhythm of the organ accompaniment, which has little to do with the rhythms sung by the choir. Listen also for the rhythmic change at the text “Cast care aside, lean on thy guide”. This text appears in The Hymnal 1982 with two separate tunes, #552 and #553.
Finally, the Postlude is a fun little “March in D” by Benjamin Yarnold, an organist at St. Michael’s Church in Charleston, SC, in the 18th century.