"On Love and Hate" -- UUSE Virtual Worship, October 19, 2025

Gathering Music (Mary Bopp)

Welcome and Announcements (Rev. Josh Pawelek)

Centering

Prelude

"A Conversation"

Improvised by Mary Bopp

Chalice Lighting and Opening Words

“Turn Scarlet, Leaves”

Words by Raymond J. Baughan

Music by Mary Bopp

Turn scarlet, leaves

Spin earth

Tumble the shadows into dawn

Tumble the shadows into dawn

Opening Hymn

#1023 “Building Bridges”

Words: The Women of Greenham Common peace occupation in England, 1983

Music: Contemporary English Quaker round

Building Bridges between our divisions,

I reach out to you, will you reach out to me?

With all of our voices and all of our visions,

friends, we could make such sweet harmony.

Time for All Ages

Musical Meditation

Joys and Concerns

Musical Meditation

Offering

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

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

Andante from Sonata no. 13 in A Major

by Franz Schubert

Sermon

“On Love and Hate”

Rev. Josh Pawelek

Closing Hymn

#1031 “Filled with Loving Kindness”

Traditional Buddhist Meditation

Adapted by Mark Hayes

Music by Ian Riddell

May I be filled with loving kindness.

May I be well.

May I be filled with loving kindness.

May I be well.

May I be peaceful and at ease.

May I be whole.

May you be filled with loving kindness.

May you be well.

May you be filled with loving kindness.

May you be well.

May you be peaceful and at ease.

May you be whole.

May we be filled with loving kindness.

May we be well.

May we be filled with loving kindness.

May we be well.

May we be peaceful and at ease.

May we be whole.

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame

Responsorial

“The Flame in Our Hearts”

Words by Josh Pawelek

Music by Mary Bopp

The flame in our hearts, never ceases burning.

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.