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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is a diverse and active congregation affiliated with the Virginia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

02/07/2021

May God’s blessings be with you on this Fifth Sunday after Epiphany.

The liturgy for today's worship service is available on our website.

Organist-Choirmaster Bill Greene provides this note about today's prelude and postlude:

There was a brief “fad” at the beginning of the eighteenth century for organists to arrange music written for string orchestra so it could be played on the organ. Both J. S. Bach and his first cousin, J. G. Walther, wrote these when they worked in the city of Weimar from 1708-1717. The prelude’s anonymous composer from rural northern Germany seems to have decided to skip the model and just write a cheerful piece that sounds like it could have been an instrumental concerto. Emma Lou Diemer, who composed today’s postlude, relates that she was told as an undergraduate that women shouldn’t try to be composers. She obviously didn’t listen and was for many years a professor of composition at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgFifth Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 7, 2021Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

01/31/2021

May God’s blessings be with you on this Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. There will be no parking lot worship services today due to the inclement weather.

The liturgy for today's worship service can be found on our website.

Organist-Choirmaster Bill Greene provides this note about today's prelude and postlude:

A “practicing” organist can never have enough organ music based on hymns! Because of its emphasis on hymn singing, there was a great flowering of such music in the early days of the Lutheran church which continues today. Although quite different from each other, the prelude and postlude make use of two techniques from those early days. The first is foreimitation, in which a bit of each phrase of the hymn tune is used imitatively to introduce that phrase. The second is ornamentation, in which other pitches are added to the tune between and around the original notes. All hymn tunes, by the way, have names independent of the words sung to them, such as Aurelia and In Babilone.

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgFourth Sunday after EpiphanyJanuary 31, 2021Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

01/24/2021

May God’s blessings be with you on this Third Sunday after Epiphany. The liturgy for today's worship service can be found on the church website.

A note about today's prelude and postlude:

Today’s organ selections are two parts of a much longer piece. Although the entire piece is called a praeludium, the piece only bears a surface resemblance to the majestic praeludia of the previous two generations of North German composers. The source is the newly discovered and published (2001) personal notebook of small-town organist, Bendix Friedrich Zinck (1743-1801). A chaconne is a variation form that features a repeated pattern of notes, usually in the bass, over which different harmonies and figuration are used. The official definition of a chaconne says that they can only be in minor keys, but it seems that Herr Zinck didn’t get that memo!

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgThird Sunday after EpiphanyJanuary 24, 2021Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

01/17/2021

May God’s blessings be with you on this Second Sunday after Epiphany.

A few notes about today's prelude and postlude:

The majestic tune for A Mighty Fortress Is Our God looms large in Lutheran history and, indeed, Christianity in general. Judging from the number of pieces written using that tune, however, which are very few, it was just another hymn in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the other hand, there are likely hundreds of settings for the tune for Dearest Jesus, at Your Word, which was far more well known and was in many Lutheran churches sung every Sunday before the sermon.

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgSecond Sunday after EpiphanyJanuary 17, 2021Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

01/10/2021

May God’s blessings be with you on this Feast Day of The Baptism of Our Lord.

Our worship today includes a Thanksgiving for Baptism, and the reception of a new member. The liturgy for today's worship service can be found on our website.

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgFeast of The Baptism of Our LordJanuary 10, 2021Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

01/06/2021

May God’s blessings be with you on this Feast Day of The Epiphany of Our Lord.

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgFeast of The Epiphany of Our LordJanuary 6, 2021Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

01/03/2021

May God’s blessings be with you on this Second Sunday of Christmas.

The liturgy for today's worship service is on our website. Links to previous worship services and musical offerings are there, too, as well as on YouTube.

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgSecond Sunday of ChristmasJanuary 3, 2021Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

12/27/2020

Good morning, Holy Trinity Family,

May God’s blessings be with you on this First Sunday of Christmas.

The liturgy for today's worship service is available on our website and includes Lessons and Carols for Christmas.

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgFirst Sunday of ChristmasDecember 27, 2020Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

12/24/2020

May God’s blessings be with you on this Christmas Eve as we celebrate The Nativity of Our Lord.

The liturgy for this evening's worship service is available on our website.

worship bulletin available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgThe Nativity of Our Lord - Christmas EveDecember 24, 2020Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg,...

12/20/2020

May God’s blessings be with you on this Fourth Sunday in Advent.

Worship materials are also available on our website.

worship materials available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.orgFourth Sunday in AdventDecember 20, 2020Holy Trinity Lutheran ChurchLynchburg, Virginia

10/18/2020

May God’s blessings be with you on this Feast Day of St. Luke.

worship materials available at https://holytrinitylynchburg.org Feast Day of St. Luke October 18, 2020 Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Lynchburg, Virginia

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Lynchburg, VA
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