Gathering Music and Slide Show
Prelude
"Ave Verum Corpus"
W. A. Mozart
Dorothy Bognar, piano
Opening Words (Rev. Josh Pawelek)
Words of Welcome
Chalice Lighting (Max and Anna Roy)
Hymn
#108 "My Life Flows on in Endless Song"
Early Quaker song, set to American gospel tune
Dorothy Bognar, piano
Sandy Johnson, hymn leader
My life flows on in endless song above earth's lamentation
I hear the real though far-off hymn that hails a new creation.
Through all the tumult and the strife I hear the music ringing.
It sounds an echo in my soul. How can I keep from singing!
What though the tempest 'round me roars, I know the truth, it liveth.
What though the darkness 'round me close, songs in the night it giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that rock I'm clinging.
Since love prevails in heav'n and earth, how can I keep from singing!
When tyrants tremble as they hear the bells of freedom ringing,
when friends rejoice both far and near, how can I keep from singing!
To prison cell and dungeon vile our thoughts to them are winging;
when friends by shame are undefiled, how can I keep from singing!
Reading
"Sailing to Byzantium"
by William Butler Yeats
spoken by Lisa Gates
Music
"Take Five"
by Paul Desmond
Ethan and Julian Roy
Eulogy
Tim Roy and Rev. Josh Pawelek
Testimonials
Mike DiRaimo
Don Williams
Olivia Roy
Ethan Roy
Alexandra Roy
Closing Song
"This Land is Your Land"
by Woody Guthrie
Dorothy Bognar, piano
Sandy Johnson, vocals
Ethan Roy, banjo
Mike Roy, guitar
Alexandra Roy
Julian Roy
Anna Roy
Chorus:
This land is your land, and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
And I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me.
Chorus
I roamed and rambled, and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
All around me, a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me.
Chorus
There was a big, high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted said "Private Property"
but on the backside, it didn't say nothing
This land was made for you and me.
Chorus
When the sun come shining, then I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving, and the dust clouds rolling
The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me.
Chorus
Extinguishing the Chalice
Benediction
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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