Memorial Day weekend offers the chance to bring close our memories of loved ones gone. Rev. Linda reflects on the power of stories remembered, and the presence in our lives of those only known to us through the stories we have been told.
Order of Service
Memorial Day Sunday, May 30, 2021
11am Community Worship, UUCville
Prelude Melody by Rachmaninoff James Smith
Welcome Dawn Dirks, Worship Weaver & Beth Jaeger-Landis, Board Secretary
Call to Worship We gather to remember… by Nicole McKay
Hymn For All That Is Our Life by Bruce Findlow and Patrick Rickey
offered by Brian Kenny and Alena Hemingway
Chalice Lighting Sandy Brooks & Burnie Davis
Chalice Song From You I Receive by Joseph and Nathan Segal
offered by Scott DeVeaux, UUCVille Music Director
A Story The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
Song Remember Me by Kristen Anderson- Lopez and Robert Lopez from Coco
Homily “Remembering Stories” The Rev. Dr. Linda Olson Peebles
Hymn We Laugh We Cry by Shelley Jackson Denham, arr. Scott DeVeaux
offered by the UUCville Virtual Choir
Invitation to the Offering Dawn Dirks
Offertory Intermezzo by Kirchner James Smith
Sharing of Joys and Sorrows Christine Gresser
Musical Meditation Improvisation by Schumann James Smith
Memorial Day Prayer Called by Loss, Called by Peace by Heather Janules Greg Townsend
In Honor of Their Lives Rev. Linda
UUCVille Members who have died since May 2020
John Anderson Jan Bernhard Mary Rose Curtis
Arthur Given Marc Goldberg Charles Martin
Gary Melton Cordelia (Dee) Plunkett Jim Souder
Hymn 1064 Blue Boat Home, by Peter Mayer
Benediction & Extinguishing the Chalice Rev. Linda
Postlude The Easy Winners by Joplin James Smith
Thanks to tech support from Sean Skally, Kelly Dryden, Caroline Heins; video artistry, Ellie Ranso
https://zoom.us/j/95025058534
Meeting id: 95025058534
Call: 646-558-8656
