Order of Service for Sunday, July 29, 2012
Date of Service:
July 29, 2012
I do not know which to prefer, the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendoes,
the blackbird whistling or just after.
~ Wallace Stevens, from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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Gathering Hymn
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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. Ours is no caravan of despair. Come, yet again come. |
Please stand in body or spirit
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Welcome |
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Prelude
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from Caprice #24 Niccolo Paganini, arranged by Leopold Auer Lynn Angebranndt, cello |
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Chalice Lighting |
Edna Bonacich |
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Opening Hymn #65 |
The Sweet June Days |
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Covenant
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Love is the doctrine of this church. The quest of truth is its sacrament, And service is its prayer. To dwell together in peace; To seek knowledge in freedom; To serve humankind in fellowship; Thus do we covenant with each other. |
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Hymn of Praise
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Ours be the poems of all tongues, all things of loveliness and worth. All arts, all ages, and all songs, one life, one beauty on the earth ~ Kenneth L. Patton |
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Offering for the Westside Food Bank |
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Poems for All Ages |
read by Judith Martin-Straw |
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Song of Blessing |
Go now in peace, go now in peace, May the spirit of love surround you As you go, as you go On your way. ~ Natalie Sleeth |
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A Time for Community |
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Pulpit Message |
Adriana Garcia and Cherie Harper Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services |
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Offertory |
Menuets from Solo Suite #2 J.S. Bach |
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Introduction |
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Silence |
Billy Collins read by Rima Snyder |
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Responsive Reading |
Stone Charles Simic |
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Duke Ellington |
Gwendolyn Brooks read by Diana Spears |
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Music for the Morning |
Feldeinsamkeit (Solitude in the Fields) Johannes Brahms |
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Because These Failures Are My Job |
Alison Luterman read by Judith Martin-Straw |
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Meditation |
Slower and Slower Mark Belletini |
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Prayer, What the Living Do |
Marie Howe read by Edna Bonacich |
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Closing Hymn #330 |
The Arching Sky of Morning Glows |
Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.
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Benediction |
Days to be glad in John Cuno |
Please be seated for the postlude.
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Postlude |
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Extinguishing the Chalice |
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Greeters: |
Teri Bond & Jessica Clay |
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Ushers: |
Tom Foretich & Michael Young |
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Coffee: |
Kit Shaw & Resa Foreman |
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Office: |
Melanie Sharp |
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Bookstore is closed today. |
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Service Notes
Today’s Generous Congregation of 40% of the non pledge offering will go to The Didi Hirsch Community Center. The center provides mental health and substance abuse treatment services throughout Los Angeles County and operates the only free, accredited, 24 hour seven days a week suicide prevention crisis line from Orange County to Santa Barbara. Hotline phone: (877) 7-CRISIS or (877) 727-4747