Hospitality is a Form of Worship:  From the Babylonian Talmud.      September 17, 2023. Rev.Morrison
Channel: Unitarian Church of Edmonton
Date: 17/09/2023

Hospitality is a Form of Worship:  From the Babylonian Talmud.      September 17, 2023. Rev.Morrison
What does radical hospitality even mean, and how can we here at UCE begin to understand it, and live into being radically hospitable?  

Order of Service
Chimes

Welcome, Land Acknowledgement, and Announcements

Prelude

Chalice Lighting

A Spacious Welcome by Shari Woodbury
In two voices
1: Welcome, who come in friendship
who long for genuine community...
2: May you be graciously received here
as your authentic self.
1: Welcome, who come in curiosity,
full of questions or simply open...
2: May you embrace wonder
and encounter new delights.
1: Welcome, who come heavy with fatigue,
weary from the troubles of the world
or the troubles of your particular life...
2: May you rest and be filled in this sacred space.
1: Welcome, who come with joy
for flowing rivers and gentle breeze,
for changing skies and great trees...
2: May the grace of the world
leave a lasting imprint in you.
1: Welcome, who come with thanks
for the altruism of the earth
and the gift of human care...
2: May your grateful heart overflow
and bless those around you.
BOTH: Come, let us celebrate together
this wondrous life.

Hymn 1000 Morning Has Come 

Service Leader Reflection

Sharing Our Abundance
Hymn 402 From You I Receive (Sing 2X) 

Responsive Reading 441 To Worship 

Hymn 128 For All That is Our Life

Message: Hospitality is a Form of Worship: From the Babylonian Talmud

Meditation
Meditation Hymn 1031 Filled With Loving Kindness

Candles of Joy and Concern

Hymn 1017 Building a New Way

Extinguishing the Flame

A Theology of Welcome by Rev. Dr. David Breeden

Let’s be the welcome 
we crave—
open hearts, 
arms outstretched.

Let’s embody 
radical welcome,
unquestioning love.

Let’s be the welcome 
we crave—
deeply hearing 
voices and hearts.

Let’s be the welcome 
we crave—
enriching,
understanding.

Let us embody
the community 
we crave. 

Benediction

Carry the Flame

Postlude

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