“Longing and Belonging”, Oct 24, 2021
Channel: Unitarian Church of Edmonton
Date: 25/10/2021

Apologies – static ends 3 minutes in.  In this service the Unitarian Church of Edmonton will be officially welcoming Rev. Rosemary Morrison. As well, the congregation was given the opportunity to send in questions for Rev. Rosemary, and this morning she will be answering them. Please join us as we welcome our new minister and find out a little bit more about her.  
Order of Service
NOTE:  Apologies – static ends 3 minutes in.  
lngathering Music 
Chimes
Welcome and Land Acknowledgement 
Prelude
Opening Words 
Lighting the Chalice
A Communion of Heart and Soul  by Bruce Southworth 
For the gift of this day and for our community of spiritual nurture and compassion, we give thanks.  We light this chalice as a symbol of our faith.  May our many sparks meet and merge in communion of heart and soul.
Hymn 361  Enter, Rejoice and Come In
Time for All Ages  -  Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
Sharing Our Abundance
An Official Welcome to Rev. Rosemary Morrison 
Meditation Words, Silence
Meditation Hymn 1053  How Could Anyone
Candles of Joy and Concern
Message Part 1  Longing and Belonging – The Questions
Music
Message Part 2  Longing and Belonging
Hymn 1014 We Are Answering the Call of Love
Chalice Extinguishing
It Becomes More  by Amy Zucker Morgenstern
When we take fire from our chalice, it does not become less. It becomes more.
And so we extinguish our chalice, but we take its light and warmth with us, multiplying their power by all of our lives, and sharing it with the world.
Closing Words 
Announcements 
Carry the Flame 
Postlude



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The Unitarian Church of Edmonton is a liberal, multi-generational, religious community.
We celebrate a rich mosaic of free-thinking, spiritually-questing individuals joined in common support and action.  We welcome diversity including diversity of beliefs from divine believers to humanists, from pagans to atheists and agnostics.  We believe in the compassion of the human heart, the warmth of community, the pursuit of justice and the search of meaning in our lives.

We gather with gratitude on traditional Cree lands that are now a part of Treaty Six and shared by many nations.   A treaty is an inheritance, a responsibility and a relationship.  May we be good neighbours to one another, good stewards to our planet and good ancestors to our children.

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