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2. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Welcome to
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote
The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
• Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
• Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
• A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
• The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
• The goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all;
• Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

3. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Welcome to
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
We live out the UU Principles within a “living tradition” of wisdom and spirituality, drawn from sources as diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and personal experience:
Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
Wisdom from the world’s religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit;
Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.

4. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church ________________________
Welcome to
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Mission Embrace (Build a welcoming, inclusive church) Engage (Get people connected) Enlighten (Nurture the search for truth and meaning) Empower (Ignite passion)
________________________
Vision
We are a welcoming community that celebrates its liberal religious tradition and its rich diversity, inspires authentic relationship and spiritual growth, and works for a more just, loving, and compassionate society.

5. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Welcome to
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Assisted hearing devices are available at the Welcome Table in the Small Hall

6. Sonate pour Flute et Piano
Prelude
Sonate pour Flute et Piano
Movement 1
by Robert Casadesus
Performed by: Sharon Skidgel & Ali Gioscia

7. Music Notes
Robert Casadesus was the quintessential French musician, a passionate perfectionist who carried the Gallic virtues of precision, clarity, and elegance into the mid-20th century. He composed over 80 works, but was best known as a touring pianist and recording artist, appearing in concerts in Europe and the United States over 2,000 times during his career.

8. Music Notes
Ali Gioscia, flutist, and I are performing at the National Flute Association Convention in Minneapolis on Thursday of this week. We were chosen from 550 entries, to play Flute Sonata Opus 18 by the French composer and concert pianist, Robert Casadesus.
This piece is rarely played, due to the fact that it is extremely difficult and requires large man-hands to play the piano part! (My relatively large hands are being stretched to their limits!)

10. Lyrics Someday When we are wiser When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray
Someday we may yet live
To live and let live
Someday
Life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
Greed wil not pay
God speed
This bright millenium
Let it come
Wish upon the moon
One day
Soon.

12. Gather Us In Gathering Song by Marty Haugen
adapt. Rev. Dr. Nori J. Rost

13. Here in this place new light is streaming,
Verse 1
Here in this place new light is streaming,
now is the darkness vanished away;
see in this place our fears and our dreaming,
brought here to all in the light of this day.

14. Gather us in the lost and forsaken, gather us in no two just the same;
Chorus 1
Gather us in the lost and forsaken,
gather us in no two just the same;
call to us now, and we shall awaken,
we shall arise at the sound of our name.

15. We are the young, our lives are a myst’ry,
Verse 2
We are the young, our lives are a myst’ry,
we are the old with wisdom and grace;
we have been sung throughout all of hist’ry,
called to be light to the whole human race.

16. Gather us in the Buddhist and Pagan,
Chorus 2
Gather us in the Buddhist and Pagan,
Humanist, Atheist join in the throng;
gather us in the Theist and Seeking,
give us the courage to enter the song.

17. Not in the dark of buildings confining,
Verse 3
Not in the dark of buildings confining,
not in some heaven light years away;
here in this place the new light is shining,
now is the moment, now is the day.

18. Gather us in from all tribes and nations,
Chorus 3
Gather us in from all tribes and nations,
gather us in, no one left alone;
gather us in, a great celebration,
fire of love in our flesh and our bones.

20. Rev. Dr. Nori Rost ASUUC Senior Minister
Welcome and Sounding of the Bell
Rev. Dr. Nori Rost
ASUUC Senior Minister

23. Chalice Lighting
ASUUC Member

24. ~ Sheila Peltz Weinberg
There is a reciprocal relationship between remaking the world and remaking ourselves, between the courage to be with our own pain and the ability to open to the suffering of others. There is no real separation between our inner spiritual landscape and the systems of power and privilege that operate in the world. When we become more aware of the inner obstacles to freedom and peace, we are more able to work for our ideals without recreating the systems we are trying to change.
~ Sheila Peltz Weinberg

25. The dark is only the dark, whether small or large– But the spark of the free, of the one, of the seeker– that spark is simply light, and sends long rays.
– James H. Curtiss

27. Pete the Cat - I Love My White Shoes
Story For All Ages
Pete the Cat - I Love My White Shoes
By Eric Litwin
Read by
Tamsin Cowdrey

30. Reeb Children’s Benediction
Singing the Children Out
Reeb Children’s Benediction
words and music: Ian W. Riddell

31. Go in love, our hearts go with you.
Go in joy, our hopes go too.
Learn in love and grow in wisdom.
Shine your light in all you do.

33. ASUUC Board of Trustees
Reading
Jan Otto
ASUUC Board of Trustees

34. Gather up your dreams today, gather them from every nook and cranny where they may have been collecting dust. Take them down from the shelf, bring them out from under the bed. Get the old dreams, the wild dreams, the child dreams, the ones you had when you were just starting to feel your wings, the ones that burned in your mind like the fever of adolescence, the dreams you told only to a special friend, the dreams that gave you hope. Gather them up now and bring them to where you pray. Their power has not been lost and their blessing has only begun.
--Episcopal Bishop Steven Charleston

36. Message
Number 9
Rev. Dr. Nori Rost

39. ASUUC Board of Trustees
Offertory Reading
Jan Otto
ASUUC Board of Trustees

40. We are here that we might have life and have it more abundantly, so that we might share it with others. Come let us join together as a generous people.
– John Morgan

41. The offering will now be joyfully given and generously received.

43. Performed by: Sharon Skidgel
Offertory Music
Hero's Dream
by Jim Brickman
Performed by: Sharon Skidgel

44. Lyrics Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end.
And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.

45. Music Notes
Joplin ( ) composed this rag in 1909, as public interest in ragtime was waning and Joplin's own interest was moving away from popular music. It remains one of his loveliest and least characteristic pieces.

48. From You I Receive #402 in Singing the Living Tradition
Offertory Response
From You I Receive
words and music: Joseph and Nathan Segal
#402 in Singing the Living Tradition

49. From you I receive,
to you I give,
together we share,
and from this we live.

51. Joys and Concerns
Congregation

52. Opening
I am sending you light____
to heal you, to hold you.
to hold you in love.

54. Closing
I am sending you light____
to heal you, to hold you.
to hold you in love.

56. Closing Words
Rev. Dr. Nori Rost

57. Mary Oliver writes:
What I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled– to cast aside the weight of facts... I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery. I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing– that the light is everything– that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.
Let us go forth now, in that same sense of wonder and mystery, willing to be dazzled by the twists and turns on the road of life.

59. words and music: Judy Fjell
Extinguishing the Chalice / Song
As We Leave This Place
words and music: Judy Fjell

60. Now, as we leave this place, the chalice dims 1
Now, as we leave this place,
the chalice dims
but the fire still burns within our hearts
beyond these doors.

61. Now, as we leave this place, mem’ries of each and ev’ry face 2
Now, as we leave this place,
mem’ries of each and ev’ry face
carry us ___ into the world.

62. for now we know ___ that something 3
And we will return
for now we know ___ that something
greater ___ than any of us ___ alone
is part of us ___ as we leave this place.

64. Sonate pour Flute et Piano
Postlude
Sonate pour Flute et Piano
Movement 3
by: by Robert Casadesus
Performed by: Sharon Skidgel and Ali Gioscia

65. Music Notes
Charlie Parker ( ) was arguably the greatest alto saxophone player in history, and is inarguably the most influential. He composed this classic blues riff in the late 1940s; now is still the time.

66. Music Notes
Robert Casadesus was the quintessential French musician, a passionate perfectionist who carried the Gallic virtues of precision, clarity, and elegance into the mid-20th century. He composed over 80 works, but was best known as a touring pianist and recording artist, appearing in concerts in Europe and the United States over 2,000 times during his career.

67. Thank you for letting us try this out on you!!
Music Notes
Ali Gioscia, flutist, and I are performing at the National Flute Association Convention in Minneapolis on Thursday of this week. We were chosen from 550 entries, to play Flute Sonata Opus 18 by the French composer and concert pianist, Robert Casadesus.
This piece is rarely played, due to the fact that it is extremely difficult and requires large man-hands to play the piano part! (My relatively large hands are being stretched to their limits!)
Thank you for letting us try this out on you!!

68. Lyrics Excerpt Still don't know what I was waitin' for
And my time was runnin' wild
A million dead end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
How the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Lyrics Excerpt

69. Lyrics Excerpt CHORUS: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange
Don't want to be a richer man
There's gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
Lyrics Excerpt

70. Lyrics Excerpt I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through
Lyrics Excerpt

71. Lyrics Excerpt CHORUS:
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Ch-ch-changes Don't tell them to grow up and out of it Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Ch-ch-changes Where's your shame? You've left us up to our necks in it Time may change me But you can't trace time
Lyrics Excerpt

73. Please enjoy the Fellowship Hour
following service
in the Small Hall
Hosted by
ASUUC Men’s Group

74. for being part of our community today
Thank you
for being part of our community today