Kearsarge Unitarian

Universalist Fellowship

Andover, New Hampshire

Sunday, May 17, 2020

May 17, 2020

Today’s Message: “The Light of Community”Guest Speaker: Nancy Stone

Gathering Music – “May, Sweet May” Robert Schumann

Welcome and Announcements – Bill Hickey

Greet your Neighbors

Prelude – “Happy Meeting” Chinese Folkson

Lighting the Chalice – All Recite

Opening Words – “Choices” Marcia Stanard

Opening Hymn – #318 “We Would Be One”

Affirmation of Fellowship: – All Recite

Candles of Joys and Concerns

Words of Reflection – St. Francis of Assisi

Silent Reflection

Offertory Music – “Sakura” Japanese Folksong

Offering – Please send check to: KUUF P.O. Box 1578,

New London, NH 03527

Offertory Response (to “Old Hundredth”)

Hymn – #108 “My Life Flows On in Endless Song”

Message – The Light of Community

Closing Hymn – #307 “The Human Touch Can Light the Flame”

Extinguishing the Chalice – All Recite

Postlude – “Traditional Armenian Folksong”

Closing Words – Rosemary Morrison

OPENING WORDS

ChoicesYesterday, there were fewer cars at the Arrivals dock at the Portland airportthan there were dogs being walked on my block.

Yesterday, a friend reported a clandestine meeting—a walk with her elderly mother—careful to keep a six-foot distance as they strolled together in the sunshine.

Yesterday, schools were closed, and bars, and restaurants. We no longer gather, laughing, in bustling crowds of strangers who might become friends.

But today, people in Italy sang together out their balconies. Meals on Wheels drivers put bags of food on doorknobs, backed up six feet, and waited to see if the seniors were okay.

Today, the technology that we swore was killing our relationships—those phones our youth sink into, ignoring the world in front of them—is saving us. Letting us gather, see one another’s faces.

Tomorrow, fewer people will sicken and die if we keep our distance today. Imagine if all difficult choices had such clear and obvious results—

And then living as if they do.

Marcia Stanard

Opening HymnJoin in and sing from the comfort of your home

Affirmation of Fellowship:

May we be reminded here of our

highest aspirations and inspired

to bring our gifts of love and

service to the altar of humanity.

May we know once again that we

are not isolated beings but

connected in mystery and in

miracle, to the universe, to this

community and to each other.

Candles of Joys and Concerns

Words of Reflection

Praise be to God for allof his creatures, and especially our brother the sun who brings us the day and brings us the light.

St Francis of Assisi

Silent Reflection

Offering to KUUF

Mail Check to:

KUUF

P.O. Box 1578,

New London, NH 03257

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Offertory Response

(to “Old Hundredth”)Please sing along from the comfort of your home

From all that dwell below the skies

Let faith and hope and love arise

Let beauty, truth and good be sung

Through every land, by every tongue.

Todays Message

“The Light of Community”

Presented by Nancy Stone

Closing HymnPlease sing along from the comfort of your home

We are grateful for this community of love and

connection. May this time remind us of how much

we mean to one another. Thank you for this means

to stay connected, for being able to see each

other’s face and hear each other’s voices.

May we be safe, may we be well.

May we be comforted and buoyed up with the love

that permeates this community.

May we all be safe, may we all be well.

So may it be, Amen.

Rosemary Morrison

CLOSING WORDS

May 17, 2020

Today’s Message: “The Light of Community”Guest Speaker: Nancy Stone

Gathering Music – “May, Sweet May” Robert Schumann

Welcome and Announcements – Bill Hickey

Greet your Neighbors

Prelude – “Happy Meeting” Chinese Folkson

Lighting the Chalice – All Recite

Opening Words – “Choices” Marcia Stanard

Opening Hymn – #318 “We Would Be One”

Affirmation of Fellowship: – All Recite

Candles of Joys and Concerns

Words of Reflection – St. Francis of Assisi

Silent Reflection

Offertory Music – “Sakura” Japanese Folksong

Offering – Please send check to: KUUF P.O. Box 1578,

New London, NH 03527

Offertory Response (to “Old Hundredth”)

Hymn – #108 “My Life Flows On in Endless Song”

Message – The Light of Community

Closing Hymn – #307 “The Human Touch Can Light the Flame”

Extinguishing the Chalice – All Recite

Postlude – “Traditional Armenian Folksong”

Closing Words – Rosemary Morrison