Gathering Music
Welcome and Announcements
Prelude Music
"Rise Up, Rise Up"
Words and Music/Unknown
Members of the Manchester Women's Sacred Singing Circle
Led by Jeannette LeSure
Opening Hymn
"Hearts Are Healing Here"
Words and Music/Unknown
Members of the Manchester Women's Sacred Singing Circle
Led by Jeannette LeSure
Hearts are healing here.
Mother Goddess hold us dear!
In your light, our path is clear.
Women's hearts are healing here.
Introduction to the Service
Joys and Concerns
Musical Interlude
"We Hear Your Cry"
Words/Music: Shelley Graff
Members of the Manchester Women's Sacred Singing Circle Led by Jeannette LeSure
Reading: A Beat Poem written and read by Jessey Ina-Lee
Hymn
"Comfort Me Oh My Soul"
#1002 in Singing the Journey
Members of the Manchester Women's Sacred Singing Circle
Led by Jeannette LeSure
Comfort me, comfort me.
Comfort me oh my soul.
Comfort me, comfort me.
Comfort me oh my soul.
(Additional verses as needed:)
Sing with me
Speak for me
Dance with me
Offering
The recipient of our community outreach offering in October is the University of Connecticut's Native American Cultural Program or NACP. NACP provides resources, services and community for UCONN's Native and Indigenous students and faculty, helps foster relationships with local tribal nations, and works towards building good relations between UCONN and the land.
Offering Music
"Cradle Me"
Words/Music: Deborah Dougherty
Members of the Manchester Women's Sacred Singing Circle
Led by Jeannette LeSure
First Homily: "What Can You (men) Do? (Madeleine Cahill)
Interlude
"Courage Sister"
Attributed to the anti-Apartheid Movement of South Africa
Members of the Manchester Women's Sacred Singing Circle
Led by Jeannette LeSure
Second Homily (Madeleine Cahill)
Reading: "Take Back the Day" - Excerpts from a speech by Andrea Dworkin
Read by Jessey Ina-Lee
Closing Hymn
"I Will Not Leave You Comfortless"
Words/Music: Jan Phillips
Members of the Manchester Women's Sacred Singing Circle
Led by Jeannette LeSure
I will not leave you comfortless,
I will not leave you alone,
I'll be there when you need me,
At the light of every star and every dawn.
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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