"Finding My Way Out of the Darkness" -- UUSE Virtual Worship, October 12, 2025
- uuseoffice
- Oct 1
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 7
Gathering Music
Welcome and Announcements
Centering
Prelude
"Believing"
by Mary Bopp
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words
excerpt from Finding My Way Out of the Darkness
By Tony Ferraiolo
Opening Hymn
#1002 “Comfort Me”
by Mimi Bornstein-Doble
Comfort me, comfort me,
comfort me, oh my soul.
Comfort me, comfort me,
comfort me, oh my soul.
Sing with me, sing with me…
Speak for me, speak for me…
Dance with me, dance with me…
Comfort me…
Time For All Ages
Joys and Concerns
Offering
"Kindness Rocking"
by Mary Bopp
MARC, Inc. provides the opportunity for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live meaningful lives of independence, choice, inclusion, and continuous personal growth. MARC, Inc. was founded in 1952 by seven families who were working together to support their children who were living with disabilities. Today, they have a campus on Sheldon Road in Manchester where they provide multiple services and programs, in addition to managing eleven residential homes. MARC supports almost three hundred individuals from twenty-seven towns in the Greater Hartford area.
UR Community Cares' mission is to keep older and disabled neighbors supported in their homes and active in their communities. Their programs include: “Neighbors Helping Neighbors,” which provides volunteer support so that older adults and people with physical disabilities can live safely at home; “Cycling Without Age Manchester,” which deploys an e-bike rickshaw to provide free recreational rides for older and disabled residents in Charter Oak Park and along the East Coast Greenway; the UR Community Tech Center, which offers free technology support and volunteers to answer questions about smartphones, tablets, laptops; and UR Vision Resources, a100-page printed Blind/Vision Impaired Directory to ensure more people know what services are available.
Offering Music
Chancel Talk
“Finding My Way Out of Darkness” or “Kindness Rocks”
Tony Ferraiolo and Rev. Josh Pawelek
Closing Hymn
#1053 “How Could Anyone?”
By Libby Roderick
How could anyone ever tell you
you were anything less than beautiful?
How could anyone ever tell you
you were less than whole?
How could anyone fail to notice
that your loving is a miracle?
How deeply you’re connected to my soul.
Extinguishing the Chalice
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.