Month: June 2020

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
JOYS and SORROWS & COFFEE HOUR
Sunday, June 14th – 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.

“Flower Communion Celebration”
Service Leader: Pat Lucey
Readers: Lucie-Marie Castonguay-Bower, Chris Baddeley Girard, Louka Kavcic, Nick Lepan, Martha Nabatian, Nancy Rubenstein

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          Link to Video: “Now I Walk in Beauty”   from the Navajo Tradition, sung by the San Fernando Valley Youth Chorus          

Welcome and Chalice Lighting                  Readers: Pat, Lucie-Marie, and Louka

Opening Words          “Flower Communion” by Rev. Dr. Lynn Ungar                        Reader: Chris

                             

Offering and Joys and Sorrows                     Pat

Moment of Musical Reflection 

Story for All Ages                  Video Link: “Miss Rumphius” by Barbara Cooney

The Story of the Flower Communion – Part I                  Reader: Martha

Click this link to see photos of Norbert and Maja Čapek.

The Story of the Flower Communion – Part II                Reader: Nancy

The Story of the Flower Communion – Part III              Reader: Nick

Sharing Our Flowers                                  Pat

Link to Presentation: Flower Communion Celebration 2020
Flower Ceremony Musical Accompaniment  Debussy – “Arabesque 1” – Héloïse de Jenlis, Harpist

Flower Ceremony Blessing            by Norbert Čapek       Reader: Chris

Introducing the Song                            Pat

Song        “Love Grows One By One”   Words & Music: Carol Johnson ©1981
performed by Elizabeth McMahon

CHORUS: Oh, Love grows one by one, two by two, and four by four.
Love grows round like a circle, and comes back knockin’ on your front door.

1. Note by note we make a song, voice by voice we sing it; 
Choir by choir we fill up the world with the music that we bring it.

CHORUS: Oh, Love grows one by one….

(musical interlude)

2. So let me take your hand my friend, we’ll each take the hand of another;
Hand in hand we’ll reach round the world to our sisters and our brothers.

CHORUS Oh, Love grows one by one….  (sing twice)

Closing Words                                         Readers: Pat and Lucie-Marie

Entrusting the Flame                                Reader: Louka

Postlude                     Link to Video: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Spring (La Primavera), 1st movement, Classical Concert Chamber Orchestra 

Additional Resources:
Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre website

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT – NOTE changed time for Zoom!

GUEST SPEAKER’S ZOOM PRESENTATION, Followed by JOYS and SORROWS & COFFEE HOUR:
We are trying something a little different today, by offering you part of the service on Zoom. By zooming in a little before 11:00 (i.e., about 5 minutes before) to the Zoom link which was sent to you on Friday and/or Saturday, you will get a chance to hear our Guest Speaker from Riverkeeper, Elizabeth Logue, who will present the work of Ottawa Riverkeeper. Time permitting, there will be a chance to ask questions.

Following Elizabeth Logue’s presentation, 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 11:00 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.

“Our Water – Respecting and Protecting the Ottawa River Watershed”
Service Leader: Elinor Mueller
Speaker: Elizabeth Logue

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: “Die Forelle (The Trout)”   Franz Schubert – Yury Revich, violin

Chalice Lighting

Welcome 

                                               
Opening Words 

                                                                       
Hymn         Video Link: “Fuente de Amor/Spirit of Life”   All Souls Unitarian DC Zoom Choir
Fuente de Amor, ven hacia mí. 
Y al corazón, cántale tu compasión. 
Sopla al volar, sube en la mar,
hasta moldear la justicia de la vida.     
Arráigame, libérame,
Fuente de Amor, ven a mí, ven a mí.

Spirit of Life, come unto me.
Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.
Blow in the wind, rise in the sea;
Move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.
Roots hold me close; wings set me free;
Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.

NOTE: To view the images which go along with Marilynn’s presentation, click on this link: June 7 World Water Day slides 

Talk                “Water Is Life”                                       Marilynn Kuhn 

                                                                       
Story For All Ages   “Me and the Ottawa River”   Claire Heistek 

                                                                           
Photo Link: Picture of the Lake Sturgeon

Video Link: Puzzle of the Ottawa River Watershed

Joys and Concerns & Offertory 

                                                           
Song            Video Link: “Water Walker Song”

FOR PART TWO OF THIS SERVICE: As noted above, at 11:00 am on Sunday, Zoom to the link which was sent to you on Friday and/or Saturday to hear Elizabeth Logue, Ottawa Riverkeeper, today’s Special Guest Speaker. And then you are invited to stay for Joys and Sorrows and Coffee Hour.