Gathering Music
Welcome (Emmy Galbraith)
Announcements (Rev. Josh Pawelek)
Centering
Prelude
"Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
By Thomas A. Dorsey
Eric Rosenberg, Saxophone
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words
"A Network of Mutuality"
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
#584 in Singing the Living Tradition
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
There are some things in our social system to which all of us ought to be maladjusted.
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear, only love can do that.
We must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclamations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
We shall hew out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
Opening Hymn
#153, "Oh I Woke Up This Morning"
African American spiritual
Eric Rosenberg, sax
Bob Janes, drums
Mary Bopp, piano
Oh, I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom.
Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom.
Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom.
Hallelu, Hallelu, Halleluia.
I was walking and talking with my mind ...
I was singing and praying with my mind ...
Oh, I woke up this morning with my mind ...
Story
"Let Us March On"
By Yohuru Williams and Michael G Long
Art by Xia Gordon
Musical Interlude
Joys and Concerns
Musical Interlude
Offering
The recipients of our January community outreach offering are Moral Monday CT and Power Up CT. Moral Monday gathers voices in the struggle for freedom and justice for black and brown people. Their areas of focus, activism and social change work include police accountability, voting rights, and workers' rights. Moral Monday CT was founded by Bishop John Selders and Lady Pamela Selders. Power Up CT brings much needed visibility to the ongoing realities of racism in Manchester and surrounding communities. They currently run Empower U, an after-school program at Squire Village in Manchester. UUSE currently serves as Power Up's fiscal sponsor.
Offering Music
"Come and Go With Me"
African American spiritual
Eric Rosenberg, sax
Bob Janes, drums
Mary Bopp, piano
Civil Rights Stories
Our Unitarian Universalist Past
Our Unitarian Universalist Present
Our Unitarian Universalist Future
Closing Hymn
"We Shall Overcome"
African American spiritual
Words adapted by William Farley Smith
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome someday!
Oh, deep in my heart I do believe
We shall overcome some day.
We'll walk hand in hand ...
We shall all be free ...
We shall live in peace ...
We shall overcome ...
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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