Autumn time has turned the starwheel, winter is upon us. Join us on the shortest day of the year to celebrate the return of the light. Let us rejoice together!
Welcome!
We are always delighted to welcome guests! If this is your first time visiting a Unitarian Universalist church or our congregation, here’s some idea of what to expect.
- Prelude: Excerpt from Songs on Winter Nights, Op.30 by Vítězslav Novák
- Ring Tibetan Bowl
- Centering Music: By Smouldering Embers from Fireside Tales, Op. 61 by Edward MacDowell
- Opening Hymn: #73, Chant for the Seasons (slide) Autumn to Winter verse.
- Welcome
- Chalice Lighting: Adapted from Ben Soule
- Menorah Lighting: Allison Prout
- Advent Candle Lighting
- New Member Welcome
- Wisdom Tale: The Shortest Day, Susan Cooper (author), Carson Ellis (illustrator), Candlewick (publisher), Tanya Webster (reader)
- Sing the Children to their Classroom
Call to Worship: Rev. Jo VonRue - Land Acknowledgment
- Ritual
- Prayer, Candles of Joys, Sorrows & Gratitude
- Sung Prayer: Rev. Rebecca Parker
- Homily: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie
- Offertory
- Shared Singing: Hymn #402, From You I Receive
- Invitations
- Hymn: #46, Now the Day is Over
- Closing the Circle and blessing
- Extinguishing the Chalice
- Invitation and Final Wave
- Postlude: Excerpt of December from The Seasons, Op. 37 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky