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Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words from a letter to Dorothy Day from Thomas Merton Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business, and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words May Day: an Invocation by Cliff Reed May is here and spring approaches her climax. This is a celebration more ancient than we can know. As we worship, our spirits join with those of countless generations – ‘For the winter is past, the … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words Fluent by John O’Donohue I would love to live / Like a river flows, / Carried by the surprise / Of its own unfolding. (repeat) Chalice Lighting (you may wish to light a candle in your own home at this point. I … Read more
Prelude Chanson de Matin by Edward Elgar Opening Words by Alex Brianson (adapted) We gather today to share a particular kind of community – a community of faith in which each of us is free to quest for our own ways of being spiritual and religious. We gather today to think about how we … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by David Usher Bring your hopes and anticipations. Bring your joys and celebrations. Bring your sorrows and lamentations. Bring your faith and adorations. Bring to this hour of worship, all that makes your life real and meaningful, that it may be blessed by communion with … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by David Usher Open your hearts to the wonder of worship. Open your minds to the eternal quest for meaning and truth. Open your eyes to the miracle of creation. Open your arms to the embrace of your fellow men and women. Open your souls, and … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Cliff Reed (adapted) As the true prophets of God have always told us, the Divine will is for mercy and compassion, love and justice. May we never suppose that vengeance and cruelty, hatred and murder, serve the Divine purpose. In the spirit … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words The Season of Hope by Cliff Reed Give thanks for Spring! Here again, with its promise ever-new, with its many-yellowed flowers, its bright songbirds proclaiming their presence to the world – a world darkened, as ever, by human folly, by war and suffering undeserved. But … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Jeffrey Bowes Here we have gathered to make another link in the chain of days that binds our lives in fellowship. We bring our whole self to worship, with all the pleasures and the pains of our daily lives. All our hopes and … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words A Mother’s Love by Cliff Reed We come to give thanks for the mothers who bore us and nurtured us, to celebrate the love and kindness we received from them. We come to give thanks for the children entrusted to us for … Read more