Sundays at All Hallows (September 20, 2026) Is Now Online
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows.
This Sunday, September 20, 2026, is the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. Tuesday, September 22, is the Autumn Equinox and the first day of Fall. It is also Hobbit Day, a holiday declared by the American Tolkien Society in 1978 and observed by fans of hobbits and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was an Oxford don, a professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Literature. He was also a devout Catholic. While The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are not Christian allegories, they do reflect the influence of Tolkien’s faith, particularly the conflict between good and evil that is central both to The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy.
Saturday, September 26 is the peak of the Harvest Moon, the full moon closest to the Autumn Equinox.
In the British Isles harvest festivals are celebrated in September or October, according to local tradition. These celebrations are variously called Harvest Festival, Harvest Home, Harvest Thanksgiving or Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving. They involve hymn-singing, prayer, and the decoration of churches with the fruits of the harvest, with shocks, or stooks of wheat and other seasonal grains, vegetables from the field and the garden, fruit from the orchard, and loaves of freshly baked bread.
For this Sunday’s Invitatory Psalm, you have a choice as you did last four Sundays, either the original version of Michael Perry’s metrical paraphrase of the Venite (Psalm 95), “Come Worship God,” or the inclusive language version. The organ accompaniment for both versions is the same– Joseph Francis Thrupp’s hymn tune EPIPHANY.
Beginning next Sunday, September 27, we will be introducing new service music which we will use for the remainder of the Season after Trinity. To facilitate its introduction, links to a video of the new Venite and MP3s of the accompaniments of the new Benedictus and the new Te Deum have been posted with the new canticles’ lyrics after the service so anyone wishing to practice them beforehand can do so.
The topic of this Sunday’s message is God’s grace.
Readings: Jonah 3:10-4:11, Philippians 1: 21-30, and Matthew 20:1-16
Message: Our Gracious and Compassionate God
Link: https://allhallowsmurray.blogspot.com/2026/09/sundays-at-all-hallows-september-20-2026.html
Please feel free to share this link with anyone who may be interested.
If you are new to Sundays at All Hallows, you may find these directions helpful:
-It is recommended that after reading or hearing each lesson to take time to reflect on what you read or heard during the period of silence which follows each lesson. It is also recommended that you do the same thing after reading or hearing the message.
-When you open the link to a video in a new tab, check auto-play to make sure it is in the off position. Otherwise, a second video with a different song will follow the first.
-If an ad plays when you open a link to a video in a new tab, click the refresh icon of your browser until the song appears.
-If a song begins partway through the video, click pause, move the slider to the beginning, and then click play.
-An ad may follow a song so as soon as the song is finished, close the tab.
May Sundays at All Hallows be a blessing to you.
Anglicans Ablaze