Sunday Worship for August 9, 2020
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About the Music:
Our new Organist, Daniel Miller, begins his first Sunday at Trinity Church with the Prelude: "Priere a Notre Dame", the 3rd movement from the "Suite Gothique" composed in 1895 by French organist/composer Leon Boellman. In addition to being particularly well suited to the French inspired architecture of the church, this "Prayer to Our Lady" recognizes the of The Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin celebrated in the Episcopal Church later this week on August 15. The first window on the left as you enter the nave depicts the Annunciation and Visitation to the Blessed Virgin Mary and is shown during the prelude. The service concludes with the 2nd movement from the suite as the Postlude: "Menuet Gothique".
Both the Hymn and the Anthem were chosen to accompany the reading from the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus walks on the water and saves Peter from the storm.
The Anthem is an arrangement of the hymn "How Can I Keep From Singing" with its repeated line, no storm can shake my inmost calm when to that rock I'm clinging. Adopted by the Society of Friends, it is often cited as a Quaker Hymn but was actually written by 19th century Baptist minister, Robert Wadsworth Lowry.
Hymn 608: "Eternal Father Strong to Save" is widely known and loved as the Navy Hymn. It uses the tune Melita written in 1861 by John Bachus Dykes, Precentor of Durham Cathedral, and is named for the safe haven found by St. Paul after being shipwrecked off the island of Melita, now known as Malta.