Gathering Music
Welcome & Announcements
Prelude
Selections from Dvorak's New World Symphony
Dorothy Bognar, piano
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words
Opening Hymn
#1 "May Nothing Evil Cross This Door"
Words: Louis Untermeyer; Music: Robert N. Quaile
Dorothy Bognar, piano
May nothing evil cross this door,
and may ill fortune never pry
about these windows; may the roar
and rain go by.
By faith made strong, the rafters will
withstand the battering of the storm.
This hearth, though all the world grow chill,
will keep you warm.
Peace shall walk softly through these rooms,
touching our lips with holy wine,
till ev'ry casual corner blooms
into a shrine.
With laughter drown the raucous shout,
and, though these sheltering walls are thin,
may they be strong to keep hate out
and hold love in.
Introduction to the Service & Readings
From "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Uvong
Statement from the National Association of Realtors
1924 Code of Ethics
Musical Interlude
"UU Benediction"
by Dorothy Bognar
Dorothy Bognar, piano
Joys and Concerns
Musical Interlude
"Home, Sweet Home"
by Sir Henry Bishop and John Howard Payne
Dorothy Bognar, piano
Offering
For the month of January, the recipient of our community outreach offering is the CT Alliance to End Sexual Violence. Their mission is to create communities free of sexual violence and to provide culturally affirming, trauma-informed advocacy, prevention, and intervention services centered on the voices of survivors. The Alliance seeks to create a world in which everyone believes sexual violence is a preventable problem and actively plays a role in ending it.
Offering Music
"Ave verum corpus"
By W. A. Mozart,
Arranged by Franz Liszt
Dorothy Bognar, piano
Reading: "I, too, sing America" by Langston Hughes; read by Erin Boggs
Guest Speaker: Erin Boggs, Executive Director of Open Communities Alliance
Closing Hymn
#1008 "When Our Heart Is in a Holy Place"
Words & music: Joyce Poley
Keyboard arr. Lorne Kellett
Chorus: When our heart is in a holy place,
When our heart is in a holy place,
We are bless’d with love and amazing grace,
When our heart is in a holy place.
When we trust the wisdom in each of us,
Ev’ry color ev’ry creed and kind,
And we see our faces in each other’s eyes,
Then our heart is in a holy place.
When we tell our story from deep inside,
And we listen with a loving mind,
And we hear our voices in each other’s words,
Then our heart is in a holy place.
When we share the silence of sacred space,
And the God of our Heart stirs within,
And we feel the power of each other’s faith,
Then our heart is in a holy place.
Extinguishing the Chalice and Closing Words
Closing Circle
May faith in the spirit of life
And hope for the community of earth
And love of the light in each other
Be ours now, and in all the days to come.
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