The Softness of the Dark

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman & Dr. Artis Wodehouse.


PRAYER & MEDITATION


READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
Chapter 21 of the Tao te Ching: "Finding the Essence of Tao" by Lao Tzu, translated by Stanly Rosenthal
From the poem "You darkness, that I come from" by Rainer Maria Rilke


SERMON
"The Softness of the Dark"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman & Dr. Artis Wodehouse

PART I: "The Seasons Whirl..."

INTERLUDE: *** Robert Schumann

PART II "Their Cycles Spun..."

INTERLUDE: Figured Chorale Robert Schumann

PART III: "Just as Birth, So Death Does Come..."


CLOSING WORDS



Download File
(Right-click or Ctrl+click to save)


Special Music: The piano pieces played by Dr. Artis Wodehouse are taken from Robert Schumann’s Album for the Young.

Liturgist: Thom Kennon

Please note: All sermons are copyrighted by the author.