"Resistance!" -- UUSE Virtual Worship, January 4, 2026

Gathering Music

Mike Zanta, Guitar

Welcome and Announcements

Centering

Prelude

"White Flag"

by Joseph

performed by Meetinghouse

Chalice Lighting and Opening Words

Matthew 2: 10-15a

(New Revised Standard Version)

Opening Hymn

#1007 "There's a River Flowing in My Soul"

by Faya Ora Rose Toure (Rose Sanders)

There's a river flowin' in my soul.

There's a river flowin' in my soul.

And it's tellin' me that I'm somebody.

There's a river flowin' in my soul.

There's a river flowin' in my heart ...

There's a river flowin' in my mind ...

Time for All Ages

Musical Meditation

Joys and Concerns

Musical Meditation

Offering

The recipients of our Community Outreach Offering for the month of January are Moral Monday CT and Power Up CT. Both organizations have been leaders in Connecticut's Black Lives Matter movement and a variety of social justice campaigns and initiatives.

Offering Music

"March, March"

by the Chicks

performed by Meetinghouse

Sermon

"Resistance at UUSE, 2025"

Rev. Josh Pawelek

Closing Music

"Good Fight"

by Unspoken

performed by Meetinghouse

Extinguishing the Chalice

"The Work of Christmas"

by Howard Thurman

Gently adapted by Rev. Josh Pawelek

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.