Sunday, December 20 at 7 pm Order of Service: Solstice and Yule!

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PAINT BRANCH UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH

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INGATHERING MUSIC     The Holly and the Ivy
Keith Miller, pianist and PB Member

GREETING           Tricia Most, Worship Associate

PRELUDE           Carol of the Bells         Mykola Leontovych
Keith Miller, pianist and PB Member

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS      Tricia Most, Worship Associate

INTENTION        During the Winter Solstice   Penney Hughes, PB Member

INVOCATION         We Welcome Winter       Tricia Most, Worship Associate

UNISON CHALICE LIGHTING        Cerridwyn & Angela Peerman, PB Family

We light the chalice to celebrate Unitarian Universalism.
This is the church of the open mind, the helping hands,
the loving heart, and the radiant spirit.
Encendamos este caliz para celebrar el Unitarismo Universalismo.
Esta es la iglesia de la mente abierta, de las manos amigas,
del amor del corazón, y del espíritu radiante.

MUSICAL INTERLUDE        Keith Miller, pianist and PB Member

CREATING SACRED SPACE
Clearing and Centering Mary Rooker, PB Shamanic Studies
Casting Circle Mason Jean, Community Member
Honoring the Directions April Doyle, Joy Holt, Elizabeth Stephens, Sonya Gross, Community Members
Honoring the Masks of the Divine Jonathan White, Community Member
Honoring the Ancestors and Descendants Tosha O’Neal, PB Member

GUIDED MEDITATION      Honoring Darkness      Penney Hughes, PB Member

SPECIAL MUSIC       Honor the Dark        Lea Morris
performed by Lea Morris

POEM READING       Fallow, the Land Lies Fallow      Abi Hanley 
reader: Penney Hughes, PB Member

SPECIAL MUSIC   Green Grow’th the Holly      (trad. c. 16th Century)
Diana McFadden, cellist and PB Member

REFLECTION       The Shortest Day        Susan Cooper
Louise Waugh, PB Member

MUSICAL REFLECTION        Hail the Bless’d Sun       lyrics Eldritch; arr. Amanda Kennedy  
Eldritch, soloist and PB Member;
Diana McFadden, cellist and PB Member

OPENING THE CIRCLE

EXTINGUISHING THE CHALICE      Cerridwyn Peerman, PB RE Participant

CLOSING MEDLEY       Deck the Halls; Wassail, Wassail, All Over the Town
Keith Miller, pianist and PB Member

TOASTING      Raise A Glass to the Coming Light       

An Offering may be made to PBUUC using our Breeze online donation page at pbuuc.breezechms.com/give/online OR mail a check to the church; OR text the whole dollar amount of your donation to 301-321-7215 

Decembers SAC Special Collection is for Community Crisis Services.  You can make tax-deductible donations by check payable to ‘CCSI and mail it to: 
Community Crisis Services, Inc.     
PO Box 149 Hyattsville MD 20781 
or donate  at their website, www.communitycrisis.org

For more information about other Pagan and Earth-Centered services and events at PBUUC, please email pagans@pbuuc.org