Sunday, December 20 at 10 am Order of Service: Welcome Yule!

PAINT BRANCH UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH

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PRELUDE           Carol of the Bells         Mykola Leontovych
David Chapman, Music Director and Pianist

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS      Tricia Most, Worship Associate

INTENTION        Penney Hughes & Eldritch, Lay Leaders

UNISON CHALICE LIGHTING        Cerridwyn & Angela Peerman

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.

STORY AND CONVERSATION      Images of Solstice
Fallon Hughes, RE Participant

CHALICE REFLECTION      Solstice at Paint Branch       Tricia Most, Worship Associate

INTONATION       Green Grow’th the Holly      (trad. c. 16th Century)
Diana McFadden, cellist
(Joys and Sorrows may be submitted into the chat bar at this time)

CREATING SACRED SPACE
        Casting Circle             Mason Jean
        Calling the Divine        Mason Jean, Joy Holt, April Doyle, Eldritch
        Calling the Directions    April Doyle, Joy Holt, Elizabeth Stephens, Sonya Gross
        Calling the Ancestors & Descendants     Anastasia and Tosha O’Neal

HYMN #55          Dark of Winter  
Allison Hughes, soloist

REFLECTION ON A POEM    You, Darkness      Rainer Maria Rilke
Rev. Diane Teichert, Minister Emerita

SPECIAL MUSIC     Honor the Dark      Lea Morris
performed by Lea Morris

POEM        Fallow        Abi Hanley
Penney Hughes, reader

SPECIAL MUSIC    The Holly and the Ivy  (trad. English tune)
Diana McFadden, cellist

REFLECTION       Light Around the World      Mary Rooker

MUSICAL REFLECTION        Hail the Bless’d Sun       lyrics Eldritch; arr. Amanda Kennedy  
Eldritch, soloist

OPENING THE CIRCLE

OFFERING: This Sunday’s offering will be received using our Breeze online donation page at pbuuc.breezechms.com/give/online OR mail your check to the church; OR text the whole dollar amount of your donation to 301-321-7215

OFFERTORY     The Christians and the Pagans     Dar Williams

CLOSING WORDS       Tricia Most, Worship Associate

RESPONSE #123       Fuente de Amor / Spirit of Life
performed by: All Souls Church Unitarian Choir; Jen Hayman, Director

EXTINGUISHING THE CHALICE      Cerridwyn Peerman

Stay in the Main Room for Service Reverberations
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