Gathering Music (Mary Bopp) Welcome and Announcements (Rev. Josh Pawelek) Centering Prelude "Greet the Sunny Day" by Andy Ricci Chalice Lighting and Opening Words #463, excerpt from "Dream of a Common Language" by adrienne rich My heart is moved by all I cannot save: / so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those / who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, /reconstitute the world. Processional Hymn #361 "Enter, Rejoice and Come In" by Louise Ruspini arr. by...

Gathering Music Jean Gabriel-Marie: La Cinquantaine Robert Schumann: Traumerei W. A. Mozart: Rondo from Sonata in A major, K. 331 Dorothy Bognar, piano Welcome Centering Prelude Benjamin Godard: Berceuse from Jocelyn Dorothy Bognar, piano Chalice Lighting & Opening Words We Kindle This Flame by Selena Fox We kindle this flame with love for mothers and foremothers past, present, and future; We kindle this flame in celebration of community and its generations. We kindle this flame with respect...

The Ancient Spring At our Earth Day service two weeks ago I said it is always a worthwhile exercise to reflect on what it means to have a place in the interdependent web of all existence. I then said that such contemplation can, at times, lead us into that kind of spiritual or mystical experience in which all the borders and the boundaries between us and everything else melt away, ebb, fade, disappear, revealing in their wake an endless, crisscrossing multitude of connections, of...