Gathering Music (Mary Bopp)
Welcome
Announcements
Centering
Prelude
“Nautilus”
by Mary Bopp
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words
“Circles of Life”
by Suzy Kassem
Opening Hymn
“Dear Weaver of Our Lives’ Design”
#22 in Singing the Living Tradition
words by Nancy Dorian
music by Nikolaus Herman, harmonized by J. S. Bach
Dear weaver of our lives’ design
Whose patters all obey;
With skillful fingers gently guide
The sturdy threads that will survive
The tangle of our days.
Take up the fabric of our lives
With hands that gently hold;
Bind in the ragged edge that care
Would sunder and that pain would tear
And mend our rav’ling souls.
Let eyes that in the plainest cloth
A hidden beauty see;
Discern in us our richest hues,
Show us the patterns we may use
To set our spirits free.
Silence
Reflection
excerpts from The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature
by Starhawk
Musical Meditation (Mary Bopp)
Joys and Concerns
Musical Response (Mary Bopp)
Offering
In keeping with our congregation’s 2018 resolution to become a sanctuary congregation, our community outreach offering for May is dedicated to two important immigrants’ rights groups in Connecticut.
Hartford Deportation Defense say “we are an immigrant-led mutual aid collective that fights for the rights of all immigrants in the Hartford area, so that we can all have access to a dignified, peaceful, and joyful life.”
Unidad Latina en Accion or ULA was founded in New Haven in 2002, with the goal of building grassroots immigrant power across Connecticut to win economic and racial justice.
Offering Music
“Spiraling”
by Mary Bopp
Sermon
“Spiraling”
Closing Hymn
“We Are Dancing Sarah’s Circle (Spiral)”
#212 in Singing the Living Tradition
Words by Carole A. Etzler
music: African American spiritual
We are dancing Sarah’s circle (spiral)
We are dancing Sarah’s circle (spiral)
We are dancing Sarah’s circle (spiral)
Sisters, brothers, all.
Here we seek and find our history …
We will all do our own naming …
Every round a generation …
On and on the circle’s (spiral’s) moving …
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.
