Sundays at All Hallows (September 27, 2026)
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday, September 27, 2026, is the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. Last Tuesday, September 22, was the Autumn Equinox and the first day of Fall. The days and the nights have already grown cooler, a welcome relief from the summer heat. Beginning this Sunday, we will be using new service music for the remainder of the Season after Trinity, as was announced last Sunday. The MP3 of the simple piano accompaniment for the new metrical versions of the Benedictus and the Te Deum contains no vocals, just the tune played on the piano. Each accompaniment begins with a brief introduction. The settings are widely used hymn tunes, KINGSFOLD and TALLIS’ CANON (EIGHTH TUNE). KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of texts in England and Ireland. Ralph Vaughan Williams introduced it as a hymn tune in The English Hymnal (1906) as a setting for Horatius Bonar's “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say.” TALLIS’ CANON (EIGHTH TUNE) is one of nine tunes which Tho...
