Gathering Music
Welcome and Announcements
Centering
Prelude
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words
“On the Brink”
By the Rev. Leslie Takahashi
Opening Hymn
#131 “Love Will Guide Us”
Words by Sally Rogers
Music: traditional, arr. By Betty A. Wylder
Love will guide us, peace has tried us,
hope inside us will lead the way
on the road from greed to giving.
Love will guide us through the hard night.
If you cannot sing like angels,
if you cannot speak before thousands,
you can give from deep within you.
You can change the world with your love.
Love will guide us, peace has tried us,
hope inside us will lead the way
on the road from greed to giving.
Love will guide us through the hard night.
Time for All Ages
“Love”
by Matt de la Pena
illustrations by Loren Long
Musical Interlude
Joys and Concerns
Musical Interlude
Offering
Mindful that March is Women's History Month, the recipient of our community outreach offering is the CT Alliance to End Sexual Violence. Their mission is to create communities free of sexual violence and to provide culturally affirming, trauma-informed advocacy, prevention, and intervention services centered on the voices of survivors.
Offering Music
“Love’s in Need of Love Today”
By Stevie Wonder
Will Alexon, vocals
Sermon
“Love Will Guide Us”
By the Rev. Carolyn Patierno
Closing Hymn
#34 “Though I May Speak With Bravest Fire”
Words by Hal Hopson
Music traditional English melody, arr. By Hal Hopson
Though I may speak with bravest fire, and have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love, my words are vain as sounding brass and hopeless gain.
Though I may give all I possess, and striving so my love profess,
but not be given by love within, the profit soon turns strangely thin.
Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control, our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide every deed; by this we worship, and are freed.
Extinguishing the Chalice
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.
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