Order of Service, Jan. 29, 2017 "Longing & Belonging"
Date of Service:
January 29, 2017
January 29, 2017
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*Gathering Hymn Bind Us Together
Bind us together, oh bind us together
with cords that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, oh bind us together,
oh bind us together with love.
Prelude Searching for More Daniel Gledhill
Welcome
Chalice Lighting Amy & Bruno Lacombe
*Opening Hymn #360 Here We Have Gathered
*Covenant Love is the doctrine of this church.
The quest for 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.
*Hymn of Praise From all that dwell below the skies
Let songs of hope and faith arise
Let peace, goodwill on earth be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
Time for All Ages
Song of Blessing #414 As We Leave This Friendly Place
As we leave this friendly place, love give light to every face;
May the kindness which we learn, light our hearts till we return.
Life Together
Offering La Lune Blanche (9am) Gabriel Faure
Elijah Rock (11am) Jester Hairston
Devotional Time
Silence
Sung Response #1031 Filled With Loving Kindness
May I be filled with loving kindness
May I be well.
May I be filled with loving kindness
May I be well.
May I be peaceful and at ease.
May I be whole.
Verse 2: May you be filled with loving kindness...
Verse 3: May we be filled with loving kindness...
Responsive Reading #657 It Matters What We Believe
Music for the Morning Nocturne op. 29 no. 2 (9am) Frederic Chopin
The Evening Star (11am) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Sermon Longing & Belonging Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
*Closing Hymn #121 We’ll Build a Land
*Benediction
Musical Response Amen in Bb
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Greeters: Bryan Cahill, fUUsion ℅ Karen Patterson
Ushers: Tom Early, Tom Foretich, David Goetz & Kit Shaw
Coffee: Rebecca Crawford, Linda Marten, Susan Stahl & Alicia van Ooyen
Welcome Table: Barbara Gibbs
Bookstore: Sarah Harper
Service Notes
Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to the UUSC, (Unitarian Universalist Service
Committee), to advance human rights and social justice in the United States and around the world.
The work of the UU Service Committee is built on the conviction that all people are entitled to basic
human rights, which transcend divisions of class, race, nationality, sexual orientation, ethnicity,
religion, and gender. We envision a world free from oppression and injustice, where all can realize
their full human rights.
La Lune Blanche by Paul Verlaine
The moon, white,
Shines in the trees:
From each bright
Branch a voice flees
Beneath leaves that move,
O well-beloved.
The pools reflect
A mirror’s depth,
The silhouette
Of willows’ wet
Black where the wind weeps...
Let us dream, time sleeps.
It seems a vast, soothing,
Tender balm
Is falling
From heaven’s calm
Empurpled by a star...
It’s the exquisite hour.
(translation: www.babelmatrix.org)