““Shine Your Light”, Chorealis Service - April 3, 2022
Channel: Unitarian Church of Edmonton
Date: 03/04/2022

Chorealis service:  kindle and celebrate the light within. "In the mystery of life about us there is light. It gives us a place to be, to grow, to rejoice together. It opens the pathways to love." George Kimmich Beach

Order of Service- April 3, 2022
Greeting
Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
Prelude
Opening Words “Everything begins on the verge of awareness” by George Kimmich Beach, read by Kimberly Lang
Chalice Lighting “Come We Now Out of the Darkness” by Annie Foerster, read by Kimberly Lang
Chalice Lighting Response “One Flame”-  Chorealis and congregation
Reading “O Deep Mystery of Our Lives” by Sheldon W Bennett, read by Jeff Bisanz
Hymn #345 “With Joy We Claim the Growing Light”
Sharing Our Abundance - Cause of the Month: Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office
“From you I receive to you I give, Together we share and by this we live”
Message “Answering the Religious Right with the Big Heart of Universalism” by Scott Alexander  (adapted)
Musical Interlude “Shine Your Light” - Chorealis
Candles of Care and Connection
Meditation:
-In words “We Bless This Sanctuary” by Sandra Fees, read by Gordon Ritchie
-In silence
-In music “Heart Wide Open” - Chorealis
Hymn #44 “We Sing of Golden Mornings”
Extinguishing the Chalice
Closing Words “Shine!” by Mary Edes, read by Gerard Hayduk
Postlude “Change the World with Love” -  Chorealis; words by Joseph M. Martin, music by Joseph M. Martin and Brad Nix
“Carry the Flame”

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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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