April 2017

What Does It Mean To Be

A Community of Transformation?

Worship Resource Packet

Table of Contents

Calendar Inspiration Chalice Lightings/Opening Words Meditations & Prayers Music and Hymns

For Contemporary Choirs & House Bands From the UU Musicians’ Network Mary Grigolia Compositions Washington Ethical Society Recommendations First Universalist Church of Denver Recommendations Hymns

Stories for All Ages Sermon Seeds

Individual Transformation Community Transformation Calendar Connections

Recommended Sermons

Calendar Inspiration: Important April Dates

National & Cultural:

x Earth Day - April 22 (learn more here)

x U.S. declares war on Germany - April 6, 1917 (learn more here)

x Jazz Appreciation Month (learn more here)

x National Poetry Month (learn more here)

x Sexual Assault Awareness Month (learn more here)

x Child Abuse Prevention Month(learn more here)

x Autism Awareness Month (learn more here)

x Financial Literacy Month (learn more here)

x Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month (learn more here)

Religious:

x Lent (Christian) - Mar 4- Apr 14

x Pesach/Passover (Jewish) - April 11 - 18 (learn more here)

x Good Friday (Christian) - April 16 - Easter (Christian)

x Holocaust Memorial Day/Yom Ha'Shoah (Jewish) April 23-24 (learn more here)

Unitarian Universalist:

x William Ellery Channing’s birthday - April 7 (learn more here)

x Hosea Ballou’s birthday - April 30 (learn more here)

x Climate Justice Month - Mar 22 - Apr 22 (learn more here)

For Fun and On the Fringe:

x April Fool’s Day - Apr 1 - (learn more here)

x Star Trek Day - (learn more here)

*See more inspiration about these special dates in the “Calendar Connections” section below

Chalice Lightings/Opening Words

Hoping, Trusting for So Many Things by Katie Kandarian-Morris, with adaption

Seasons of Our Lives by Richard M Fewkes

When I Change by Ma Theresa Gustilo Gallardo

Call to Worship on Easter by Elizabeth M Strong

Meditations & Prayers

A Prayer for Desert Times by Margaret A Keip

Communion with Earth and Sky by Stephen M Shick, from Consider the Lillies

The Legacy of Caring by Thandeka

http://www.uua.org/worship/words/poetry/legacy-caring

Easter Morning by David O Rankin

The Transition of Living & Dying: Blessing for Life and the End of Life by Natalie Fenimore

Video Meditation - Earth Song by Frank Ticheli (choral)

Video Meditation - A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke

Music and Hymns

For Contemporary Choirs & House Bands

A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke

Blue Boat Home - for Earth Day

Looking For A Savior by Will Reagan

Changes by David Bowie

The Middle by Jimmy Eat World

Turn! Turn! Turn! by The Byrds (Acoustic Cover by Sara Niemietz)

Circle Game by Joni Mitchell:

Kyrie Eleison by Isaac Wardell (for Traditional or Contemporary Choir)

From the UU Musicians’ Network

Mary Grigolia Compositions For music written by Soul Matters minister Mary Grigolia:

Washington Ethical Society Recommendations Music suggestions courtesy of Bailey Whiteman from the Washington Ethical Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUPaoBZ1GbM

First Universalist Church of Denver Recommendations

Music suggestions courtesy of John Hubert from the First Universalist Church of Denver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpfN6Dh7wfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKPSv4FXweQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ovf03zb8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJn_vJyGsqw&list=PLA866A92F96845E9E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cix1_4H_ps0

https://soundcloud.com/uusource/combined-choirs-20110507

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEjUQ15lyzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQ5zF6WA9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erhwDFJOpk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6AcJWPhSnI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4

Hymns

Music suggestions courtesy of Sara Jo Brandt-Doelle from First UU Society, Syracuse:

Stories for All Ages

Mole Music by David McPhail

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story by Jennifer Morgan, Dana Lynne Andersen

The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle Von Olfers

What Does Peace Feel Like? by Vladimir Radunsky

Meet Jesus: The Life and Lessons of a Beloved Teacher by Lynn Tuttle Gunney

The North Star by Peter H. Reynolds

Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood by F. Isabel Campoy, Theresa Howell

Sermon Seeds

Individual Transformation

Metamorphosis by Rachel Hadas

Seven Signs You’re Experiencing a Major Spiritual Transformation by Natasha Che

Thin Places and The Transforming Presence of Beauty by Sarah Blanton

Radical Transformation by Richard Rohr

Transformation as Awakening by Richard Rohr

Change as a Catalyst for Transformation

Transformation Is by Rev. Naomi King

You Cannot Transform Into A Human On Your Own by Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life

The Stream and The Desert:

Community Transformation

Stories in Resistance and Transformation - UUA Adult Curriculum

x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

Transforming White Fragility Into Courageous Imperfection by Courtney E. Martin

The Limitless Potential of Men to Transform Manhood by Courtney E. Martin

Transforming the "Other" to "Us":A Call for Faith Communities to Practice Mutuality by Dan Collison

Thirty Years Of Feminist Transformation by Kimberly French

James Luther Adams's Examined Faith Transforms Liberal Faith by Christopher Walton

Calendar Connections

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Passover by Kathleen McTigue

"Shine and Shadow"

The Transformation of Pharaoh, Moses, and God by Avivah Zornberg

Mystical Experience

Easter: Resurrection as a Spiritual Practice by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

The Growing Edge by Howard Thurman

This is Our Earth by Rev. Mark Belletini

How the Earth Transforms Us by Thomas Starr King, Universalist and Unitarian minister,

from a 1863 sermon entitled “Lessons from the Sierra Nevada”

Earth in Anger: Twenty-five Poems of Love and Despair for Planet Earth by James Lenfestey

Climate Change is Theft

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein

On Killing a Tree by Giev Patel

Beatitudes for Earth Sunday

by Richard S. Gilbert

Call to Worship for Earth Day by Margaret A. Keip

Earth Day Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh from The World We Have (2008)

William Ellery Channing’s Public Faith: Universalist Manifesto by Jack Mendelsohn

Hosea Ballou: Universalist Manifesto by Christopher Walton

Recommended Sermons

Born and Reborn by Victoria Safford: Excerpts from March 13, 2016 at White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church.

On the Way by Luke Stevens Royer: Excerpts from March 20th, 2016 at White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church.

A Sermonette About The Cross by Nadia Bolz Weber

Hope in the Dark by Galen Guengerich :Excerpts from a sermon from Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016 at All Souls Unitarian Church, New York City

Look to the Lilies Excerpts from a sermonette preached on April 5th, 2015 at The First Unitarian Universalist Society of Middleborough

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