Holy Waters: Shelter, Healing, Salvation, and Beginning Again
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
November 10, 2024
Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate
We moved this service (originally set for November 17) up a week to meet us in this post-election moment, when so many are grieving, and shaped the service to best serve our community.
We Unitarian Universalists claim that the what, the why and the how of repair in these very human lives of ours is centered in love. This Sunday we will continue to move more deeply into our focus on repair through the entryways of ritual, our current experience of loss, our dynamic Unitarian Universalist faith tradition, and this very present community of UUCM and all gathered.
For this water communion service of reflection and repair – meeting head, heart, and body – attenders were invited to bring a small amount of water from home or from someplace meaningful to add to our common bowl.
Rev Kevin Tarsa, Worship Associate Gail Johnson Vaughan
Song for Gathering Come, Come, Whoever You Are #188 words adapted from Jalal al-Din Rumi,
music by Lynn Adair Ungar, arr. Kevin Tarsa Toby Thomas Rose, voice Rev. Kevin Tarsa, piano
Lighting of the Chalice by Maureen Killoran read by Beth Karow
Land Acknowledgement Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate
Singing the Children on Their Way
Welcome Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate
Greeting One Another
What Moves Within Us Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Gathering the Waters
Reading Remember You are Water by adrienne maree brown read by Beth Karow
Song Comfort Me by #Mimi Bornstein Doble #1002
Honoring What is Lost Rev. Kevin & All, with members of the Lay Pastoral Care Team
Of Shards and Water: En Route to Repair
Song There is a Healing by Rev. Kevin Tarsa
On Beginning Again
Offering Gail Johnson Vaughan
Offertory Toby Thomas-Rose, piano
Dedication Gail Johnson Vaughan
Thank you & Announcements
Closing Song There is a Balm – African American spiritual
& I Know this Rose Will Open by Mary E. Grigolia
Closing Words
Community Benediction / Extinguishing of the Chalice
Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again.
Music for Going Forth