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Kearsarge Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship
Andover, New Hampshire
Sunday, May 17, 2020
May 17, 2020
Today’s Message: “The Light of Community”Guest Speaker: Nancy Stone
Gathering Music – “May, Sweet May” Robert Schumann
Welcome and Announcements – Bill Hickey
Greet your Neighbors
Prelude – “Happy Meeting” Chinese Folkson
Lighting the Chalice – All Recite
Opening Words – “Choices” Marcia Stanard
Opening Hymn – #318 “We Would Be One”
Affirmation of Fellowship: – All Recite
Candles of Joys and Concerns
Words of Reflection – St. Francis of Assisi
Silent Reflection
Offertory Music – “Sakura” Japanese Folksong
Offering – Please send check to: KUUF P.O. Box 1578,
New London, NH 03527
Offertory Response (to “Old Hundredth”)
Hymn – #108 “My Life Flows On in Endless Song”
Message – The Light of Community
Closing Hymn – #307 “The Human Touch Can Light the Flame”
Extinguishing the Chalice – All Recite
Postlude – “Traditional Armenian Folksong”
Closing Words – Rosemary Morrison
OPENING WORDS
ChoicesYesterday, there were fewer cars at the Arrivals dock at the Portland airportthan there were dogs being walked on my block.
Yesterday, a friend reported a clandestine meeting—a walk with her elderly mother—careful to keep a six-foot distance as they strolled together in the sunshine.
Yesterday, schools were closed, and bars, and restaurants. We no longer gather, laughing, in bustling crowds of strangers who might become friends.
But today, people in Italy sang together out their balconies. Meals on Wheels drivers put bags of food on doorknobs, backed up six feet, and waited to see if the seniors were okay.
Today, the technology that we swore was killing our relationships—those phones our youth sink into, ignoring the world in front of them—is saving us. Letting us gather, see one another’s faces.
Tomorrow, fewer people will sicken and die if we keep our distance today. Imagine if all difficult choices had such clear and obvious results—
And then living as if they do.
Marcia Stanard
Opening HymnJoin in and sing from the comfort of your home
Affirmation of Fellowship:
May we be reminded here of our
highest aspirations and inspired
to bring our gifts of love and
service to the altar of humanity.
May we know once again that we
are not isolated beings but
connected in mystery and in
miracle, to the universe, to this
community and to each other.
Candles of Joys and Concerns
Words of Reflection
Praise be to God for allof his creatures, and especially our brother the sun who brings us the day and brings us the light.
St Francis of Assisi
Silent Reflection
Offering to KUUF
Mail Check to:
KUUF
P.O. Box 1578,
New London, NH 03257
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Offertory Response
(to “Old Hundredth”)Please sing along from the comfort of your home
From all that dwell below the skies
Let faith and hope and love arise
Let beauty, truth and good be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.
Todays Message
“The Light of Community”
Presented by Nancy Stone
Closing HymnPlease sing along from the comfort of your home
We are grateful for this community of love and
connection. May this time remind us of how much
we mean to one another. Thank you for this means
to stay connected, for being able to see each
other’s face and hear each other’s voices.
May we be safe, may we be well.
May we be comforted and buoyed up with the love
that permeates this community.
May we all be safe, may we all be well.
So may it be, Amen.
Rosemary Morrison
CLOSING WORDS
May 17, 2020
Today’s Message: “The Light of Community”Guest Speaker: Nancy Stone
Gathering Music – “May, Sweet May” Robert Schumann
Welcome and Announcements – Bill Hickey
Greet your Neighbors
Prelude – “Happy Meeting” Chinese Folkson
Lighting the Chalice – All Recite
Opening Words – “Choices” Marcia Stanard
Opening Hymn – #318 “We Would Be One”
Affirmation of Fellowship: – All Recite
Candles of Joys and Concerns
Words of Reflection – St. Francis of Assisi
Silent Reflection
Offertory Music – “Sakura” Japanese Folksong
Offering – Please send check to: KUUF P.O. Box 1578,
New London, NH 03527
Offertory Response (to “Old Hundredth”)
Hymn – #108 “My Life Flows On in Endless Song”
Message – The Light of Community
Closing Hymn – #307 “The Human Touch Can Light the Flame”
Extinguishing the Chalice – All Recite
Postlude – “Traditional Armenian Folksong”
Closing Words – Rosemary Morrison
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