(Chorus)
“Caste”
Rev. Meredith Garmon
Order of Service
2021 September 26
Rev. Meredith Garmon, Minister
Worship Associate: Tracy Breneman, Religious Educator
Music Director: Adam Kent
Chalice Lighting: Joe Majsak, Board Chair
Media Producer: Kim Force
Our Congregation: Jeff Tomlinson for In the Spirit of Truth/Racial Justice Team
The CUUC Choir is directed by Lisa N. Meyer, accompanied by Georgianna Pappas
Gathering Music
“Autumn” from The Four Seasons ~ Antonio Vivaldi (Netherlands Bach Society)
Introduction Theme ~ CUUC Choir
You’ve Got a Friend in Me ~ Randy Newman
Opening Hymn ~ #73, Chant for the Seasons: Autumn ~
Les Tracy
Summertime has turned the starwheel, autumn is upon us.
Summertime has turned the starwheel, autumn is upon us.
Sweet the angling sun, sweet upon the air the smell of blue mist rising.
Summertime has turned the starwheel, autumn is upon us.
Glorious the trees, glorious the sight of rust leaves falling, falling.
Summertime has turned the starwheel, autumn is upon us.
Bell and Bird ~ Meredith
Welcome ~ Meredith, Tracy, Adam
Chalice Lighting ~ Joe
At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
Of those who have lighted the flame within us.
UU Minute ~ Meredith
Centering Music ~ Adam
Canción y danza No. 1 ~ Federico Mompou
Opening Words ~ Meredith
Spoken Invocation ~ Wallace JR Winston
“Let America Be America Again” ~ Langston Hughes
Sung Invocation ~ Hymn #318, We Would Be One (verse 1) ~ UU Santa Monica Vocalists
We would be one, as now we join in singing
Our hymn of love to pledge ourselves anew
To that high cause of greater understanding
of who we are, and what in us is true.
We would be one in living for each other
to show to all a new community.
Affirmation ~ Adam
We covenant to nurture each other in our spiritual journeys;
foster compassion and understanding within and beyond our community;
and engage in service to transform ourselves and our world.
Anthem ~ CUUC Choir
“Closer to the Flame” ~ Music by Susan Bentall Boersma; Words by David Lantz III
Our Congregation ~ Jeff Tomlinson for In the Spirit of Truth/Racial Justice Team
Prayer ~ Meredith
Joys & Sorrows ~ Meredith
Musical Meditation ~ Adam
Song without Words in Bb Major, Op. 67, No. 4 “Song of the Pilgrim” ~ Felix Mendelssohn
Sung Response
Calling all you hungry hearts – Everywhere through endless time
You who wander you who thirst – I offer you this heart of mine.
Calling all you hungry spirits – All the lost and the left behind
All I can I’ll share with you – Your joy and your sorrow, I make it mine.
Spiritual Practice ~ Meredith
“Study Spiritual Texts”
We’ll build a land where we bind up the broken,
We’ll build a land where the captives go free,
Where the oil of gladness dissolves all mourning,
Oh, we’ll build a promised land that can be.
(Chorus) Come build a land where sisters and brothers
Anointed by God may then create peace:
Where justice shall roll down like waters,
And peace like an ever flowing stream.
We’ll build a land where we bring the good tidings
To all the afflicted and all those who mourn.
And we’ll give them garlands instead of ashes.
Oh, we’ll build a land where peace is born.
(Chorus)
We’ll be a land building up ancient cities,
Raising up devastations from old;
Restoring ruins of generations.
Oh, we’ll build a land of people so bold.
(Chorus)
Come, build a land where the mantles of praises
Resound from spirits once faint and once weak;
Where like oaks of righteousness stand her people.
Oh, come build the land, my people we seek.
(Chorus)
Sermon, Part 1 ~ Meredith
Musical Interlude ~ Adam
“La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune” from Préludes Book II ~ Claude Debussy
Sermon, Part 2 ~ Meredith
There is more love somewhere. (2x)
I’m gonna keep on ’til I find it.
There is more love somewhere.
There is more hope somewhere. (2x)
I’m gonna keep on ’til I find it.
There is more hope somewhere.
There is more joy somewhere. (2x)
I’m gonna keep on ’til I find it (3x)
There is more joy somewhere.
Announcements ~ Tracy
Chalice Extinguishing ~ Joe
We extinguish our chalice
And the spark of divinity that recognizes the worth and dignity of all beings
We carry with us now into the world.
Spoken Benediction ~ Meredith, Tracy, Adam
Sung Benediction ~ CUUC Choir
You’ve Got a Friend in Me ~ Randy Newman
If you got troubles, then I got ’em too
There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you
We stick together and we see it through
’Cause you’ve got a friend in me – Yeah you’ve got a friend in me
Now some other folks might be a little bit smarter than I am
Bigger and stronger, too, maybe
But none of them will ever love you the way I do
Just me and you, boy
And as the years go by – Our friendship will never die
You’re gonna see it’s our destiny
You’ve got a friend in me
Music for Parting ~ Adam
Song without Words in A Major, Op. 102, No. 5 “The Happy Peasant” ~ Felix Mendelssohn
