Month: May 2020

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
JOYS and SORROWS & COFFEE HOUR
Sunday, May 31st – 11:30 am (on Zoom)
Following the regular time slot for our 10:30 Sunday morning service, we will hold a “Joys and Sorrows” online check-in, where everyone has a chance to share our worries and sorrows, as well as our joys and sources of happiness, without questions or discussion. This will be followed by a “Coffee Hour” when we can ask questions, and delve deeper into conversation, if we choose. Join us at 11:30 am by clicking the Zoom link which was emailed to you on Friday and/or Saturday by our Fellowship Office Administrator. Instructions on how to join a Zoom gathering are available here.

“Joy in the time of COVID-19”
Service Leader: Enrique Soto
Speaker: Evangeline Danseco

NOTE: Before beginning this service, you may wish to gather up your own candle to light, and select a stone, or another meaningful object, to hold as we consider our Joys and Concerns together.

Prelude: Video Link                  “Joy”, a Plum Village Song

Welcome and Opening Words 

                                                                               
Video For All Ages: Video Link                “Share The Joy”            

NOTE: Click this link to follow the words in the COVID-19 Grief and Gratitude Ritual

Chalice Lighting 

                                                                                 
Hymn: Video Link     #108 “My Life Flows On in Endless Song” 

Joys and Sorrows 

                                                                           
Offertory 

                                                                             
Talk       “Joy in the time of COVID-19”           Evangeline Danseco

                                                                         
Meditation                                                       Evangeline Danseco

                                                                             
Hymn: Video Link     “We Shall be Known” by the “How We Thrive” Virtual Choir

We shall be known by the company we keep,
By the ones who circle round to tend these fires.
We shall be known by the ones who sow and reap
The seeds of change, alive from deep within the earth

It is time now, it is time now that we thrive.
It is time we lead ourselves into the well.
It is time now, and what a time to be alive!
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love.
In this Great Turning we shall learn to lead in love. (sing twice from the beginning, and sing the last 2 lines again at the end.)

Closing Words 

                                                                           
Extinguishing the Flame 

                                                                         
Closing Song: Video Link          “Living in the moment”      by Jason Mraz

Additional Resources:
Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre website

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
JOYS and SORROWS & COFFEE HOUR
Sunday, May 24th – 11:30 am (on Zoom)
Following the regular time slot for our 10:30 Sunday morning service, we will hold a “Joys and Sorrows” online check-in, where everyone has a chance to share our worries and sorrows, as well as our joys and sources of happiness, without questions or discussion. This will be followed by a “Coffee Hour” when we can ask questions, and delve deeper into conversation, if we choose. Join us at 11:30 am by clicking the Zoom link which was emailed to you on Friday and/or Saturday by our Fellowship Office Administrator. Instructions on how to join a Zoom gathering are available here.

“The Power of Our Religious Symbols”

Service Leader: Helmut Kuhn
Speaker: Fred Harland

Welcome   

Song:   “Joy To The Morning”          Michel Boudreau

Joy, Joy to the morning, sing holy bird.
Joy, Joy at the dawning, notes sweetly heard.
Hail, Hail to the sunrise! Hail to the sky!
Blessed be our great earth. Blessed am I.

Joy, Joy to the evening, shine setting sun.
Joy, Joy to the twilight, day’s work is done.
Hail, hail to the moonrise! Hail starry sky!
At peace be our great world. At peace am I.

Joy, Joy to the music, everywhere heard.
Joy, Joy in the one light, bright in our world.
Hail, hail to the wonder! Nature’s reply.
Grateful all creation. Grateful am I.

Chalice Lighting and Opening Words 

Our Joys and Concerns and Our Offering 

Musical Reflection: Video Link   “May We Be Filled With Loving Kindness”

Introduction to Fred 

NOTE: Click on this link:    Religious Symbols May 24, 2020  to view the pictures which Fred will reference throughout his presentation.

Presentation: Part I                           Fred Harland

Responsive Reading 

Presentation: Part II                          Fred Harland

Hymn: Video Link     #121   “We’ll Build a Land”   

Presentation: Part III                         Fred Harland

Hymn: Video Link   #318   “We Would Be One”

Extinguishing the Chalice and Closing Words   

Special presentation of Beethoven’s  “Ode To Joy” by members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
JOYS and SORROWS & COFFEE HOUR
Sunday, May 17th – 11:30 am (on Zoom)
Following the regular time slot for our 10:30 Sunday morning service, we will hold a “Joys and Sorrows” online check-in, where everyone has a chance to share our worries and sorrows, as well as our joys and sources of happiness, without questions or discussion. This will be followed by a “Coffee Hour” when we can ask questions, and delve deeper into conversation, if we choose. Join us at 11:30 am by clicking the Zoom link which was emailed to you on Friday and/or Saturday by our Fellowship Office Administrator. Instructions on how to join a Zoom gathering are available here.

“The Joy of Music”
Service Leader: Pat Lucey
Musicians: Michel Boudreau, Nick Lepan, Fran Mowbray, Katie Lunn, Pat Lucey

NOTE: Before beginning this service, you may wish to gather up your own candle to light, and select a stone, or another meaningful object, to hold as we consider our Joys and Concerns together.

“Music can name the unnameable, and communicate the unknowable.”
Leonard Bernstein (1918–90), American composer, conductor, and pianist

Introduction   

Prelude: Link to Video    “Longest Time – Quarantine Edition”  performed by the Phoenix Chamber Choir of Vancouver

Welcome and Chalice Lighting 

Opening Song: Link to Video   “Gather The Spirit”  performed by the composer, Jim Scott at First Parish UU of Arlington, MA

(Chorus:)
Gather in peace, gather in thanks. Gather in sympathy now and then.
Gather in hope, compassion and strength. Gather to celebrate once again.

1. Gather the spirit, harvest the power. Our sep’rate fires will kindle one flame.
Witness the mystery of this hour. Our trials in this light appear all the same.   (Chorus)

2. Gather the spirit of heart and mind. Seeds for the sowing are laid in store.
Nurtured in love, and conscience refined, With body and spirit united once more.  (Chorus)

(Instrumental Interlude)

3. Gather the spirit growing in all, Drawn by the moon and fed by the sun.
Winter to spring, and summer to fall, The chorus of life resounding as one.  (Chorus)

Offering and Joys and Sorrows 

Moment of Musical Reflection     “Simple Gifts”         Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss

Song For All Ages: Link to Video     “My Roots Go Down”   sung by the Ben-Hem Kindergarten

Introduction to Digital Duet 

Digital Duet    “Blue Moon”     Katie Lunn (harmonica) and Pat Lucey (arranger & accompanist)

Talk        “Why Can Music Make You Feel So Good?”              Pat Lucey

Let’s Talk Music With Michel                      Michel Boudreau

The Covid Rag                    Nick Lepan and Fran Mowbray

Play Along Rhythm (Intro)       Nick Lepan and Fran Mowbray

Play Along Rhythm                     Nick Lepan and Fran Mowbray

Closing Song                   #18   “What Wondrous Love”        Our Daily Bread

(Recorder solo)

1. What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, what wondrous love is this, O my soul?
What wondrous love is this that brings my heart such bliss,
and takes away the pain of my soul, of my soul, and takes away the pain of my soul.

2. When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down, when I was sinking down, sinking down,
when I was sinking down beneath my sorrows ground,
friends to me gather’d round, O my soul, O my soul, friends to me gather’d round, O my soul.

3. To love and to all friends I will sing, I will sing, to love and to all friends I will sing.
To love and to all friends who pain and sorrow mend,
with thanks unto the end I will sing, I will sing, with thanks unto the end I will sing.

Entrusting the Flame and Mindfulness Bell 

Postlude: Link to Video        “Art Thou Troubled?”    G.F.Handel    performed by the Vancouver Youth Choir Junior and Kids

Art thou troubled? Music will calm thee. Art thou weary? Rest shall be thine.
Music, source of all gladness heals thy sadness at her shrine.
Music, music ever divine. Music, music calleth with voice divine.

When the welcome spring is smiling, all the earth with flow’rs beguiling after winter’s dreary reign,
Sweetest music doth attend her, heavenly harmonies doth lend her, chanting praises in her train.

More On Music and Happiness: The 2017 study at McGill University which was referred to above found that Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” was one of the most chill-inducing pieces of music they encountered. Perhaps you would like to listen to it and see if it gives you the chills!
Barber “Adagio for Strings”   Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Additional Resources:
Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre website

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
JOYS and SORROWS & COFFEE HOUR
Sunday, May 10th – 11:30 am (on Zoom)
Following the regular time slot for our 10:30 Sunday morning service, we will hold a “Joys and Sorrows” online check-in, where everyone has a chance to share our worries and sorrows, as well as our joys and sources of happiness, without questions or discussion. This will be followed by a “Coffee Hour” when we can ask questions, and delve deeper into conversation, if we choose. Join us at 11:30 am by clicking the link which was emailed to you on Friday by our Fellowship Office Administrator. Instructions on how to join a Zoom gathering are available here.

“Nurturing Sunday”
Service Leader: Christine Baddeley Girard
Speakers: Christine Baddeley Girard, Michel Boudreau, Sara Girard

NOTE: Before beginning this service, you may wish to gather up your own candle to light, and select a stone, or another meaningful object, to hold as we consider our Joys and Concerns together.

Prelude       Special presentation of Beethoven’s  “Ode To Joy” by members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Welcome and Chalice Lighting 

Opening Words 

Hymn       #95  “There Is More Love Somewhere”   Jason Shelton with Choir

There is more love somewhere. There is more love somewhere.
I’m gonna keep on ’til I find it. There is more love somewhere.

There is more hope somewhere…..

There is more peace somewhere….

There is more joy somewhere (with sax solo) …..

There is more love somewhere …

Joys and Sorrows and Offertory 

First Talk                                            Chris Baddeley Girard

Second Talk                                        Michel Boudreau

Third Talk                                           Sara Girard

Music       “I’ve Got Peace Like A River”             Elizabeth Mitchell

Closing Words and Extinguishing the Flame 

Postlude                   “I Love To See You Smile”                Randy Newman

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:
JOYS and SORROWS & COFFEE HOUR
Sunday, May 3rd – 11:30 am (on Zoom)
Following the regular time slot for our 10:30 Sunday morning service, we will hold a “Joys and Sorrows” online check-in, where everyone has a chance to share our worries and sorrows, as well as our joys and sources of happiness, without questions or discussion. This will be followed by a “Coffee Hour” when we can ask questions, and delve deeper into conversation, if we choose. Join us at 11:30 am by clicking the link which was emailed to you on Friday by our Fellowship Office Administrator. Instructions on how to join a Zoom gathering are available here.

“Laughter As A Spiritual Practice”
Speaker: Rev. Patricia Guthmann Haresch
Service Leader: Laura Evans

NOTE: Before beginning this service, you may wish to gather up your own candle to light, and select a stone, or another meaningful object, to hold as we consider our Joys and Concerns together.

Introduction 

Welcome and Chalice Lighting 

Opening Words         adapted from Rev. Barbara Wells tenHove         Rev. Pat Haresch

Joys and Sorrows 

Video  To enjoy today’s first video selection, click this link: “I Love To Laugh” from “Mary Poppins”

Reading                     from George Carlin                      Rev. Pat Haresch

Sermon            “Laughter As A Spiritual Discipline”        Rev. Pat Haresch

Video    To enjoy today’s second video selection, click this link: “Happy”    Pharrell Williams

Closing Words             words by Hafiz                    Rev. Pat Haresch

Extinguishing the Flame