Gathering Music (Begins at 9:50)
Welcome and Announcements (Sheila Foran, Sunday Services Committee)
Centering (Sheila Foran)
Prelude
“The Leaves are Falling”
by Mary Bopp
Cultivating Relationships and the Eighth Principle (Sheila Foran)
We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association,
covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by
working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions
that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and
our institutions
Chalice Lighting & Opening Words (Rev. Christopher Long)
Words by The Rev. Barbara Wells
O Spinner, Weaver of our lives
Your loom is love.
May we who are gathered here
be empowered by that love
to weave new patterns of Truth
and Justice into a web of life that is strong,
beautiful and everlasting.
Opening Hymn
“We’ll Build a Land”
#121 in Singing the Living Tradition
Words by Barbara Zanotti, Music by Carolyn McDade
Performed by Sandy Johnson
We’ll build a land where we bind up the broken.
We’ll build a land where the captives go free,
where the oil of gladness dissolves all mourning.
Oh, we’ll build a promised land that can be.
(Chorus) Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
anointed by God, may then create peace:
where justice shall roll down like waters,
and peace like an ever-flowing stream
We’ll build a land where we bring the good tidings
to all the afflicted and all those who mourn.
And we’ll give them garlands instead of ashes.
Oh, we’ll build a land where peace is born.
(Chorus) Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
anointed by God, may then create peace:
where justice shall roll down like waters,
and peace like an ever-flowing stream.
We’ll be a land building up ancient cities,
raising up devastations from old;
restoring ruins of generations.
Oh, we’ll build a land of people so bold.
(Chorus) Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
anointed by God, may then create peace:
where justice shall roll down like waters,
and peace like an ever-flowing stream.
Come, build a land where the mantles of praises
resound from spirits once faint and once weak;
where like oaks of righteousness stand her people.
Oh, come build the land, my people we seek.
(Chorus) Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
anointed by God, may then create peace:
where justice shall roll down like waters,
and peace like an ever-flowing stream.
Meditation (Rev. Christopher Long)
Joys & Concerns (Sheila Foran)
Offering (Sheila Foran)
For the month of October, the recipient of our community outreach offering is the University of Connecticut Native American Cultural Programs.
Offering Music
“We’ll Build a Land ”
(Original composition by Mary Bopp)
Sermon: “We’ll Build a Land” (Rev. Christopher Long)
Closing Hymn
“Building a New Way”
#1017 in Singing the Journey
Words and Music by Martha Sandefer
Performed by Sandy Johnson
We are building a new way.
We are building a new way.
We are building a new way,
feeling stronger ev’ry day,
We are building a new way.
We are working to be free.
We are working to be free.
We are working to be free,
hate and greed and jealousy.
We are working to be free.
We can feed our every need.
We can feed our every need.
We can feed our every need,
Start with love, that is the seed.
We can feed our every need.
Peace and freedom is our cry.
Peace and freedom is our cry.
Peace and freedom is our cry
Without these, this world will die
Peache and freedom is our cry.
Extinguishing the Chalice and Closing Words (Rev. Christopher Long)
Words by Rev. Dr. William F. Schulz
This is the mission of our faith:
To teach the fragile art of hospitality;
To revere both the critical mind
and the generous heart;
To prove that diversity need not
mean divisiveness;
And to witness to all that we
Must hold the world in
our hands
Closing Circle (Sheila Foran)
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.
Postlude (Mary Bopp)
Virtual Coffee Hour and Zoom Breakout Rooms
