Sunday Worship, Video Online, recorded in the Holland Sanctuary.
Share the Plate Sunday = Tucson Clean and Beautiful…
Sunday Worship, March 19, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
March 19, online, or in person, in the Holland Sanctuary.
“What if Water is God?”
Worship Lead: Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
Worship Associate: Bert Meek
Worship Leaders: Jamili Omar, Brian Moon, and Hangyu Bai
Today, March 19, is Share the Plate Sunday.
- Once a month, we share half of all non-pledge income
- — in the offertory basket
- — with a local non-profit, whose mission puts into action one or more of our UU Principles.
- Share the Plate helps us stay aware of local efforts to improve our community
- Today’s recipient is Tucson Clean and Beautiful
Our Order of Service:
- Welcome
- Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
- Prelude
- Desert Chorale
- Call to Worship
- Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
- Chalice Lighting
- Bert Meek
- Hymn #63
- Brian Moon
- Joys and Sorrows
- Bert Meek
- Prayer
- Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
- Hymn
- Brian Moon
- Offering – Share the Plate
- Bert Meek, with Barb Ricca
- Offertory
- Hangyu Bai
- Litany
- Bert Meek
- Sermon
- Rev. Bethany Russell-Lowe
- Story
- Jamili Omar/video
- Hymn
- Brian Moon
- Chalice Extinguishing
- Bert Meek
- Postlude
- Hangyu Bai
Attributions:
- Prelude
- “Wade in the Water”
- Call to Worship
- “River Call” by Rev. Manish K. Mishra-Marzetti
- Chalice Lighting
- by Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig
- Hymn #63
- “Spring Has Now Unwrapped the Flowers”
- words by Piae Cantiones,
- music by Thomas Benjamin
- #63 in Singing the Living Tradition
- “Spring Has Now Unwrapped the Flowers”
- Prayer
- “Drops of God” by Rev. Tess Baumberger
- Hymn
- “More Waters Rising” by Saro Lynch Thomason
- Offertory
- Litany
- “Water Makes Its Mark” by Rev. Matt Alspaugh
- Sermon Sketches
- blog post: “March 13, 2023”
- as posted in Blog “Letters from an American” by Dr. Heather Cox Richardson
- “The First Water is the Body” by Natalie Diaz
- in “Women and Standing Rock” article by Layli Long Soldier (in Orion Magazine)
- Poem “Matters of the Sea” by Richard Blanco
- in his book “Matters of the Sea/Cosas Del Mar”
- also — from NBC News) “Cuban-American Richard Blanco: We All Belong to The Sea Between Us“…
- “Blanco started off by dedicating his poem titled “Matters of the Sea” to “the people of both our countries who believed that not even the sea can keep us from one another.”
- “The sea doesn’t matter,” he said. “What matters is this: We all belong to the sea between us.”
- In his poem, he also called on people to listen “to the echo” of the sea, which he said is “still telling us the end to all our doubts and fears is to gaze into the lucid blues of our shared horizon, to breathe together, to heal together.”
- excerpt from “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds” by Adrienne Maree Brown, p. 153
- “The Rainmaker” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Untie the Strong Woman
- blog post: “March 13, 2023”
- Story
- “We Are Water Protectors” by Carole Lindstrom
- Hymn
- “Swimming to the Other Side” by Pat Humphries
- (segment on NPR with Pete Seeger)
- “Swimming to the Other Side” by Pat Humphries