Welcome to Ash Wednesday
We welcome you to our 2021 Ash Wednesday service with Trinity Episcopal Church. We will be featuring the full service recording here for you to view at your convenience. You’ll also find it directly on our YouTube channel and our Facebook page for sharing.
We are now cleared to have in-person worship again! This means we'll be having a full service in our courtyard for Ash Wednesday which will begin at 12pm (noon). If you are able, we hope to see you there. The Bishop is very clear on the criteria to allow this gathering. Please dress casually and warm, we will have heaters spread throughout. Everyone MUST wear a mask.
Grace and Peace!
Rev. Jonathan V. Adams
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
Our good friends at Calvary-St. George’s lent us the use of their wonderful “Ashes for Kids” service, a special feature on Ash Wednesday for our children. You can watch below:
About the Music:
As we begin the holy season of Lent, our music will generally be more simple, and more solemn. There are no organ voluntaries for this service, keeping with the general theme of simplicity and allowing more time for silence and reflection. The themes of mercy and our need for mercy from the Ash Wednesday readings are reflected in the music.
Besides the two traditional Lenten hymns, #142 “Lord, who throughout these forty days” (St. Flavian) and #150, “Forty days and forty nights” (Aus der Tiefe rufe ich), the choir will sing a paraphrase of Psalm 42, “As panting deer desire the waterbrooks” by John Carter, at the Offertory. These words of refreshment, repentance, and renewal appear in WLP, #727. Our music intern, Ryan Davis, is the cantor for Psalm 51: 1-18, sung to a plainchant melody.
Our Communion service music for the season of Lent will include the Sanctus #858 (WLP), sung to the familiar American folk tune Land of Rest. At the breaking of the bread, we will sing S-160 “O Lamb of God”, a setting of the Agnus Dei. The choir will sing the lovely “Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy’s Sake” by Richard Farrant (1530-1580), a motet with a 16th century text asking for mercy and forgiveness.