Order of Service, September 29, 2019

ROSH HASHANAH 

Barbara Hatzfeld

Prelude: We’ve Only Just Begun, (R. Nichols & P. Williams)

Welcome

Introduction of Visitors

Opening Words: #636, Bless Us With Peace, read by Pat Knight

Lighting the Chalice Flame:   
Let the lighting of this flame rekindle in us the inner light of love, of peace, of joy and of hope. And as one flame lights another, we pledge ourselves to be the bearers of the light wherever we are.

Hymn: 
Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

Affirmation: Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law. This is our great covenant to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another. 

Hymn: Introduction by Nickie Albert, #214 Shabbat Shalom (sing twice)

Story for All Ages: Is There Really a Human Race? (Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell) Read by Rachel Melcher

Quiet Time/Meditation/Prayer/Candle Lighting

Responsive Reading: #637 A Litany of Atonement, Led by Larry Stauber

Offertory: Come Together and Rock Hashanah, (Y. Broide)

Hymn: #215 Praise to the Living God

Rosh Hashanah Homily: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: 10 Days of Awe, Andrew Kahn & Phyllis Levin

Closing Hymn: #216 Hashiveinu (sing twice)

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame:
We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment.  These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Closing Words: #711

Postlude: Here Comes the Sun (G. Harrison)

Order of Service, September 22, 2019

AN INVITATION TO MAGIC

Rachel Melcher

Prelude: A Whole New World (A. Menken & T. Rice)

Welcome

Opening Reading: For Five Thousand Years, or More, by Rev. Matthew Johnson

Lighting the Chalice Flame:  
Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

Affirmation: Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law. This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another. 

Reading: Equinox, by Amy Stauber

Hymn: #175 We Celebrate the Web of Life  

Children & Youth Check-In & Send-Off: Go now in peace, go now in peace; may the spirit of love surround you everywhere, everywhere you may go.

Meditative Moment and Candle Lighting:  A Meditation on the Equinox, by Thomas Rhodes

Social Justice Minute: Larry Stauber

Offertory: Follow the Sun (X. Rudd)

Sermon: An Invitation to Magic, Rachel Melcher 

Hymn: #318 We Would Be One 

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame: We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment.  These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Postlude: Soulshine (W. Haynes)

Order of Service, September 8, 2019

PATRIOTISM

Dr. Richard Palermo

  

Prelude:  One Day (Matisyahu)

Welcome

Lighting the Chalice Flame:  Come, Come, Whoever You Are

Come, come, whoever you are,

Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

Affirmation: We covenant to affirm and promote these Seven Principles

1. The inherent worth and dignity of every person

2. Justice, equity and compassion in human relations.

3. Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregation.

4. A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.

5. The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregation and in society at large.

6. The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all.

7. Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Hymn: #21 For the Beauty of the Earth

Social Justice Minute

Quiet Time/Meditation/Prayer

Story for All Ages

Children's Faith Development Program:

Go now in peace, go now in peace; may the spirit of love surround you everywhere, everywhere you may go.

Offertory:  Take Me Home, Country Roads (B. Danoff, T. Nivert & J. Denver)

Responsive Reading: 

Hymn: #159 This is My Song

Sermon: Patriotism, Dr. Richard Palermo

Hymn: #123 Spirit of Life

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame:

We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment.  These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Closing Words

Postlude:  America (P. Simon)

September 1st Sunday Service cancelled courtesy of Hurricane Dorian

Order of Service, August 25, 2019

ABORTION

Ben Juhl

Greetings

Prelude: Whispering Hope (Septimus Winner)

Lighting the Chalice Flame: 
Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

Affirmation: Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law.  This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.

Introduction of Visitors

Hymn: #123 Spirit of Life

Announcements

Moment of Silence & Candle Lighting 

Children's Faith Development Program:  
Go now in peace, go now in peace; may the spirit of love surround you everywhere, everywhere you may go.

Offertory: Waltz Op.69, No.1 (Chopin)

Message

Hymn: #346 Come, Sing a Song with Me 

Sermon: Abortion, Ben Juhl

Closing Words

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame:  We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment.  These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Postlude: Let It Be (P. McCartney & J. Lennon)

Order of Service, August 18, 2019

ONLY KINDNESS MATTERS

The Walters-Traupman Family

Prelude: Kindness (R. Adams)

Welcome

Opening Words

Lighting the Chalice Flame: 
Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

Affirmation: Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law.  This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.

Opening Hymn: #361 Enter, Rejoice and Come In

Introduction of Visitors

Social Justice Minute: St. George’s Center, Pat Knight

Reading

Meditation

Moment of Silence & Candle Lighting 

Responsive Reading: #651 The Body is Humankind

Offertory: Hands (Jewel)

Message: Only Kindness Matters, The Walters-Traupman Family

Closing Hymn: #121 We’ll Build a Land             
Closing Words

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame: We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment.  These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Postlude

Order of Service, August 11, 2019

THE POETRY OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS

Prelude: If Music Be the Food of Love (Purcell)

Welcome

Lighting the Chalice Flame: 
Come, come, whoever you are -
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

Affirmation: Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law.  This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.

Introduction of Visitors

Reading: Songs for the People, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Read by Lynn Pernezny

Hymn: #21 For the Beauty of the Earth

Reading: The Work of Happiness, May Sarton – Read by Amy Stauber

Time for All Ages: David Traupman

Moment of Silence & Candle Lighting --Reading for Meditation: Diving for Dreams, e.e. cummings – Read by Pat Knight

Children's Faith Development Program:  Go now in peace, go now in peace; may the spirit of love surround you everywhere, everywhere you may go.

Social Justice Minute

Reading: The Garden By Moonlight, Amy Lowell – Read by David Traupman

Offertory: Change (C. Underwood)

Readings:
•In Chains, William Carlos Williams -- Read by Nickie Albert
•Blackberrying, Sylvia Plath -- Read by Suzanne Schluter
•Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life, Henry David Thoreau -- Read by Paul Ward
•The Early Bird, Ted Kooser -- Read by Carol Baxter
•For You O Democracy, Walt Whitman -- Read by Nickie Albert

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame:
We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment.  These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Closing Reading: Angels,  Mary Oliver – Read by Nickie Albert

Postlude: Come Sail Away (D. DeYoung)