Order of Service, Dec. 20th, 2017 "Winter Solstice"
Date of Service:
December 20, 2017
Winter Solstice Service December 20, 2017, 7pm
"The eternal now...is the timeless background against which all serial instants
of time are figured. It is the space between each heartbeat,
the doorway to eternity"
~ William Irwin Thompson
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Gathering Chant Round and Round
Round and round the earth is turning,
turning always round to darkness,
and from darkness round to light.
Welcome Rima Snyder
Opening Song The Holly and the Ivy Traditional
Lynn Angebranndt
Chalice Lighting Starhawk
Calling the Directions Joan Goodwin
Presentation: Earth, Air, Fire and Water
Kathleen Hogue, Judith Martin-Straw,
Joyce Holmen, Rima Snyder
Silence
Candle Lighting
Music for the Evening Reverie Claude Debussy
Lynn Angebranndt & Karen Hsu Patterson
Poem Her Longest Hours Cassandra Christenson
Closing Chant
Light is returning, even though this is the darkest hour.
No one can hold back the dawn.
Let's keep it burning, let's keep the light of hope alive.
Make safe our journey through the storm.
One planet is turning, circling in her path around the sun.
Earth Mother is calling her children home.
Dismissing the Directions
Response Thank you for your protection and guidance.
Hail and farewell.
Closing Words Kathleen McTigue
May the light around us guide our footsteps,
and hold us fast to the best and most righteous that we
seek.
May the darkness around us nurture our dreams,
and give us rest so that we may give ourselves to the work
of our world.
Let us seek to remember the wholeness of our lives,
the weaving of light and shadow
in this great and astonishing dance in which we move.
Extinguishing the Chalice