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Third Order of Service
This service makes distinctive use of opening words, a call to worship, and a
chalice lighting. Notice how each serves a different purpose: The opening words
articulate the promise of liberal religion that shared human work offers saving
possibilities. The service begins, in other words, with a statement about what
is possible. The congregation then rises for a responsive acknowledgment of
human limitations. We are not yet living up to our potential. The call to
worship offers reassurance that a religious community accepts us in our
limitations and helps us embrace our human possibilities.
The hymn effectively concludes the "gathering" section of the service. The
chalice lighting that follows begins the meditative portion of this service.
Prelude
Take from life its coals, not its ashes. Fan the flames of love and justice; join hands and hearts in common endeavor; and there will be no limit to what we can achieve together.
-- Laurel S. Sheridan
Please rise.
* Acknowledgment of Limitations -
SLT
#476
Read responsively
Before the wonders of life we acknowledge our failures to see and to revere;Before the sanctities of life we are ashamed of our disrespects and indignities;
Before the gifts of life we own that we have made choices of lesser goods, and here today seek the gifts of the spirit;
Before the heroisms of life we would be enlarged to new devotion.
-- Von Ogden Vogt
* Call to Worship - SLT #429
Come into this place of peace and let its silence heal your spirits. Come into this place of memory and let its history warm your soul. Come into this place of prophecy and power and let its vision change your heart.
-- William F. Schulz
* Hymn - SLT #129 - "Let love continue long"
Please be seated.
"Let there be light!" Let it shine in dark places, in moments of pain, in times of grief, in the darkness of hatred, violence, oppression, where there is discouragement and despair. Wherever darkness is to be put to flight, "Let there be light!"
-- Gordon B. McKeeman
See the rest of this service
Source: Based on an Order of Service by First Unitarian Church, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; in Commisson on Common Worship, Leading Congregations in Worship: A Guide, UUA 1983. Additional hymns and readings from Singing the Living Tradition, UUA 1993.
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