"Sing! Sing! Sing!" -- UUSE Virtual Worship, July 13, 2025

Gathering Music (Mary Bopp)

Welcome (Martha Larson)

Announcements (Stacey Musulin)

Centering

Prelude

"The Oneness of Everything"

by Jim Scott, arr. by Mary Bopp

Chalice Lighting

Excerpts from "The Awakening"

by Joseph M. Martin

Awake, awake, my soul, and sing!

The time for praise has come.

The silence of the night has passed;

A new day has begun.

Let music never die in me!

Forever let my spirit sing!

Let all our voices join as one

to praise the giver of the song.

Introduction to the Service

Opening Hymn

#188 "Come, Come, Whoever You Are"

Hymn

#16 "'Tis a Gift to Be Simple"

Hymn

#38 "Morning Has Broken"

Andy Ricci, speaker, guitar and hymn leader

Hymn

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

Welcoming Visitors and Sharing Joys and Concerns

Musical Response

#123 "Spirit of Life"

Hymn

#346 "Come Sing a Song With Me"

Jenn Richard, guitar and hymn leader

Hymn

#21 "For the Beauty of the Earth"

Hymn

#1064 "Blue Boat Home"

Hymn

#159 "This Is My Song"

Offertory

Continuing our practice of sharing our gifts with the community beyond our walls, fifty percent of our Sunday plate collections for the month of July will be shared with three local pantries: MACC Food Pantry (Manchester), Hockanum Valley Food Pantry (Vernon), and CT Mutual Aid East of the River Food Pantry (East Hartford).

Offertory Music

#1051 "We Are ..."

by Ysaye M. Barnwell;

2020 GA Virtual Choir, directed by Benjie Messer;

Soloist Dr. Ysaye Barnwell

Hymn

#131 "Love Will Guide Us"

Dorothy Bognar, speaker

Jenn Richard, guitar and hymn leader

Hymn

#203 "All Creatures of the Earth and Sky"

Hymn

#337 "Have I Not Known"

Hymn

#1026 "If Every Woman in the World"

Hymn

#1 "May Nothing Evil Cross This Door"

More hymns if time

Extinguishing the Chalice

Excerpt from "The Awakening"

by Joseph M. Martin

Let music never die in me!

Forever let my spirit sing!

Wherever emptiness is found,

Let there be joy and glorious sound

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.