2nd Sunday in Advent                                  December 9, 2018 Visitors – Welcome! Peace and joy in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Please advise us of your visit and ask for a “First Time Visitor Bulletin” which briefly explains the communion service.  Please join our church family in the Parish Hall after the service for fellowship, drinks,…

December Newsletter  

Music for Trinity XVIII – 10/20/20 Prelude         Morning Prelude         E. M. Read Edward Mason Read (1846-1936), born in Vermont and student of Samuel B. Whitney (Church of the Advent, Boston), was an organist and representative of the Estey Organ Co. in St. Louis. His prelude from 1906 has contrasting…

ON THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND   The Rev’d. Stephan W. Heimann Deaconess Tina Jinkins Beginnings  The Church in “Britannia” was planted by merchants from the Middle East, who brought their wares to the islands and spoke of their faith to the inhabitants. In the Anglican tradition, one of the best known of…

Prelude                      Fantasia in C Major          J. S. Bach Offertory Anthem   This is the Hour    Richard Shephard Postlude                   Recessional                        Frank W. Asper   Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was born in Arnstadt, a town in Thuringia in the central region of Germany.  as the eighth and youngest…

Prelude                                Rendez à Dieu                   Richard M. Peek Richard Maurice Peek (1927-2005), organist-director of Charlotte’s Covenant Presbyterian Church, created his piece on the 1543 tune (located at #195 in The Hymnal 1940) by Louis Bourgeois (composer of the tune Old Hundredth, sung to the Doxology). Bourgeois (1510-1559), a French disciple of the Swiss reformer John Calvin,…