This service, led by UU Congregation of Charlottesville ministers and others, will reflect on the meaning of using the longest day of the year to face clearly all that has gone before – the hurts as well as the joys – and find the inner strength to move forward toward healing and hope. We will include a ritual of burning burdens and regrets in a solstice fire. That ritual will continue on the grounds of the church, for those who would like to join in person after the service ends.
ORDER OF SERVICE
Summer Solstice – Service of Healing
11am Community Worship, June 20, 2021
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville
Prelude Arabesque No. 1 by DebussyJames Smith
Welcome Dawn Dirks, Worship Weaver
Call to Worship from Rumi
Opening Song There’s Enough Love by Brother Son
Chalice Lighting
Chalice Song Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison offered by SYML Brian Fennell
Summer Solstice by CricketSong Sheri Breault Kreitner
Invitation to Offering Dawn Dirks
Offertory Song Without Words in A major by Mendelssohn James Smith
Sharing of Joys and Sorrows The Rev. Leia Durland-Jones
Musical meditation Consolation No. 3 by Liszt James Smith
Sermon “Summer Solstice: a Story of Turning”
The Rev. Dr. Linda Olson Peebles, Interim Lead Minister
Healing Ritual
Benediction
Closing Hymn May I Be Filled With Loving Kindness offered by Jess Huetterman
music by Ian Riddell; words: Traditional Buddhist Meditation adapted by Mark W. Hayes
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Thanks to tech team Kelly Dryden and Laura Horn, and the Video Artistry of Ellie Ransom.
Meeting id: 95025058534
Call: 646-558-8656
