Harry Potter & the Chamber of Holidays (12/18/2011)

Selections from our Intergenerational Holiday Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

INTRODUCTION OF THEME
by Rev. Judy Tomlinson

A HOLIDAY PAGEANT
"Harry Potter & the Chamber of Holidays"
Written by Laura Stakiwicz
Directed & Produced by Jennifer Chaladoff and Beth Smith
Musical Director: Tom Parente

HOMILY
"How Wide? How Deep"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS


PAGEANT CAST (in order of appearance):
Ron: Max Minichiello
Hermione: Molly Sailer
Harry Potter: Alex Goggin
Snape: Elena Williams
Dumbledore: Jacob Sailer
McGonagall: Desiree Kurtti
Voldemort: Devany Kurtti

Hufflepuff Students:
Charlotte Brooks-LaBlanc, Willa Brooks-LaBlanc, Lucy Lange, Madeline Lange, Kelly Ann Nulty

Ravenclaw Students:
Marta Baj, Lila Bolt, Catherine Chaladoff, Beatrix Scherfen-Brown, Jessica Williams

Slytherin Students:
Noel Andrews, Ryanne Barrett, Avery Crafton, Julia Crafton

UU Youth Choir
Sopranos: Barbara Dunne, Anna Karapin Springorum, Izuru Ohji, Momo Ohji, Sophia Seidenberg
Altos: Dillan Comtois, Abigail Gardener, Fiona Kennon, Andrea Parente,
Emma Silverman
Tenors: Gabriella Masumeci, Valentino Masumeci, Mike Nulty, Jacob Sailer
Basses: Luke Dodge, Chris Dunne, Jonathan Silverman

Choral Pieces:
Kwanzaa - Bonse Aba (Trad. Zambian Song arranged by Andrew Fischer)
Hanukkah - Candles in the Night (Eddleman, Parente)
Christmas - Pacem Noel (Arranged by Clark, Moses, Parente)

Special Thanks to Mary WanderPolo

Very Special Thanks to all the parents and participants for showing up, working hard and being incredibly wonderful!!


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Hanukkah: The Truth in the Talmud (12/11/2011)

Selections from our Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Babylonian Talmud
From the book EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want, by Frances More Lappé

SERMON
"Hanukkah: The Truth in the Talmud"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Mary Wander Polo

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This Side of the Frost Line (12/4/2011)

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



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

SERMON
"This Side of the Frost Line"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman and Dr. Artis Wodehouse

INTRODUCTION
Poetry: Frost Line and Poetry
Piano: Nigerian Dance by Joshua Uzoigwe

PART I
Poetry: Late in the Autumn
Piano: Dusk by Nkeiru Okoye

PART II
Poetry: As Winter Begins
Piano: Volta Fantasy by J.H. Mwabena Nketia

PART III
Poetry: The Winter Deepens Still
Piano: Atwimu by J.H. Mwabena Nketia


CLOSING WORDS


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SPECIAL MUSIC:

The piano selections played by Artis Wodehouse are all recently composed by an emerging school of African composers. They have recognized that the piano -- essentially an 88-note tuned percussion instrument -- lends itself very well to the intricate rhythms and spiritual content of all African music.

Building with Purpose (11/27/2011)

Selections from a Worship Committee Sponsored Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by John Carlton, Ed Martoglio, Scott Seale and Sabine von Aulock.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS
From "Facing the Challenge of a New Age" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From Samuel Mockbee

SERMON
"Building with Purpose"
by John Carlton, Ed Martoglio, Scott Seale and Sabine von Aulock

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Dan Silver

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Thank Goodness for That (11/20/2011)

Selections from our Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MEDIEVEL
From the Tao te Ching, by Lao Tzu, translated by Peter Merel
From the poem "The Guest House" by 13th Century Sufi mystic and poet Jelaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

SERMON
"Thank Goodness for That"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Dan Silver

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Occupy Main Street

Selections from our Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the ancient text of Nehemiah
From "On Being Human Religiously" by James Luther Adams

SERMON
"Occupy Main Street"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Dan Silver

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Letting Go Without Giving Up

Selections from our New Member Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Jackie Lahey.



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STORY FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From American Theologian Frederick Buechner
From Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore

SERMON
"Letting Go Without Giving Up"
by Rev. Jackie Lahey

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Nick Lewis

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As Tranquil Streams That Meet and Merge? (10/30/11)

Selections from our New Member Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Tao Te Ching, written by Lao Tzu and translated by Peter Meril
"The Waterfall" by Mary Oliver

SERMON
"As Tranquil Streams That Meet and Merge?"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Nick Lewis

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The Many Faces of UU Ministry (10/23/2011)

Selections from our Association Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Judy Tomlinson, Rev. Jackie Lahey, Rev. Gordon Bailey, Rev. Linda Goonewardene, Mr. Barnaby Feder and Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the First Book of Chronicles
From the late UU minister, Robert W. Karnan

SERMON
"The Many Faces of UU Ministry"
by Rev. Judy Tomlinson, Rev. Jackie Lahey, Rev. Gordon Bailey, Rev. Linda Goonewardene, Mr. Barnaby Feder and Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Nick Lewis

Additional Readers: Kimberly Johnson, Carol McGough

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All in the Family (10/16/2011)

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



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PRAYER & MEDITATION
by Rev. Judy Tomlinson

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Tao Te Ching, written by Lao Tzu and translated by Derek Lin
From Dr. Ben Silliman, professor and Family Life Specialist with the University of Wyoming's Cooperative Extension Service

SERMON
"All in the Family"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Deborah Graham

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Healing and Wholeness: Mystical Love And Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi (10/9/2011)

Selections from a Worship Committee Sponsored Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Mr. Peter Rogen.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION
Rev. Judy Tomlinson

SERMON
"Healing and Wholeness: Mystical Love And Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi"
by Mr. Peter Rogen

CLOSING THOUGHT

CLOSING WORDS



SPECIAL MUSIC:
Jack Drucker (flute), Jonathan Drucker (piano, percussion, guenbri) and Daniel Parente (bassoon, saz)


Liturgist: Terry Cummings

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The Land We Walk On (10/2/2011)

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Judy Tomlinson.





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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From Charles A. Eastman, whose Wahpeton Sioux name was Ohiyesa
From poet nila northSun

SERMON
"The Land We Walk On"
by Rev. Judy Tomlinson

CLOSING WORDS



Liturgist: Nick Lewis

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Once More With Gusto?

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



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From Chapter 21 from the Book of Genesis
From the poem "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay


SERMON
"Once More With Gusto?"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Sue Raufer

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Compassionate Connections (9/18/2011)

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



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From "Gitanjali," by Rabindranath Tagore
From "The Outermost House: a Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod," by Henry Beston

INTERLUDE
Daybreak: Lake Champlain at South Hero
by Artis Wodehouse
The cardinal sings in the meadow - a choir of birds - a crow interrupts - walking toward the shore - waves - back through the meadow, encountering a deer - the mourning dove

SERMON
"Compassionate Connections"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Sue Raufer

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Ours the Years’ Memorial Store

Selections from our Water Communion Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.



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HOMILY
"Ours the Years’ Memorial Store"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Susan Raufer

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Reflections on Work (9/4/2011)

Selections from a Worship Committee Sponsored Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by The UU Montclair Theatre Group.



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SERMON
"Reflections on Work"

PRAYER & MEDITATION

CLOSING WORDS



PARTICIPATING MEMBERS OF THE UU MONTCLAIR THEATRE GROUP:
Dolores Davis, Jack Drucker, Deborah Graham, Frank Ippolito, Charles Loflin, Dottie Mack, Tim McGough, Doug Raynor, Susan Reinhard, Laura Stakiwicz, Vince Wares, Joel Wechsler


Liturgist: Terry Cummings

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And the Winner Is...Job Again! (8/21/2011)

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



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Book of Job, Chapter 3
From the 19th Century Unitarian, essayist, lecturer, and poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson

SERMON
"And the Winner Is...Job Again!"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Becky Doggett

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Remembering & Honoring Our Goddesses of the Past, Present & Future (8/14/2011)

Selections from a Worship Committee Sponsored Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by The Cakes for the Queens of Heaven Group.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION
Becky Doggett, Malinda Loflin

READINGS: ANCIENT AND MODERN
Cecilia Cosca, Dottie Hiebing
"Tale of Yemaya" by Luisah Teish
From "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" by Sue Monk Kidd

SERMON
"Remembering & Honoring Our Goddesses of the Past, Present & Future"
by Tanya Dixon, Patty Dow and Judie Rinearson


CLOSING WORDS
Mary WanderPolo


MEMBERS OF THE CAKES FOR THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN ADULT RE CLASS AND COVENANT GROUP:
Mary Apikos, Cecilia Cosca, Terry Cummings, Tanya Dixon, Patty Dow, Dottie Hiebing, Carol Anne Holland, Sabine LaBonne, Malinda Loflin, Arlene Marin, Sue Raufer, Kathie Morrow Reilly, Judie Rinearson, Vicki Sant’Ambrogio, Dorothy Sommers and Mary WanderPolo.


Liturgist: Becky Doggett

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Fathering as Misunderstood, Mystifying, Miraculous Masculinity (8/7/2011)

Selections from a Sunday morning Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Linda Goonewardene.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION
"The Healing Time" by Pesha Joyce Gertler


READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
The Lord's Prayer, from Matthew 6:9-13 [King James version] of the Christian Scripture
"Lost Keys" by Tony Hoagland

SERMON
"Fathering as Misunderstood, Mystifying, Miraculous Masculinity"
by Rev. Linda Goonewardene

CLOSING WORDS


Liturgist: Becky Doggett

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No Clowning Around (7/31/2011)

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Judy Tomlinson.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From In Praise of Folly by Erasmus
From anthropologist Isabel Behncke on studying bonobos primates

SERMON
"No Clowning Around"
by Rev. Judy Tomlinson

CLOSING WORDS



Liturgist: Anne Sailer

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Love and Fear: The Magic of Harry Potter (7/24/2011)

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Judy Tomlinson.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From 1 John 4:16-18
From Albus Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" by J.K. Rowling

SERMON
"Love and Fear: The Magic of Harry Potter"
by Rev. Judy Tomlinson

CLOSING WORDS



Liturgist: Anne Sailer

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Live Without I.D. (7/17/2011)

Selections from a Sunday Morning Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Allen Wells.



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READINGS
"Who Are You Really, Wanderer?" by William Stafford
From an article printed in the Washington Post

PRAYER & MEDITATION

SERMON
"Live Without I.D."
by Rev. Allen Wells

CLOSING WORDS

Allen first served as minister of UU congregations in Weymouth, Mass., Hollis Queens and The First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn. Later he served as Director of Religious Education for the UU Congregation of Monmouth County and the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. In 1987 he opened the Allen Wells Center for Psychotherapy and Healing, a holistic mind/body spirit counseling center in Morristown, which he directed for 12 years. Now as a UU Buddhist psychotherapist, he specializes in the new field of Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy. Allen’s lifelong interest has been in bridging the internal, personal, psychological world, which we commonly call spiritual, and the external political, social, economic, environmental world, which we usually consider material.


Liturgist: Anne Sailer

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Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly: A Golden Celebration (7/10/2011)

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Judy Tomlinson and UUCM GA Delegates.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS
Rev. Donald Harrington on the ceremony of merger
From the 1960 Service of Dedication

SERMON
Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly: A Golden Celebration
by Rev. Judy Tomlinson and UUCM GA Delegates

CLOSING WORDS


General Assembly Delegates:
Becky Doggett, Jerry & Karen Fried, Joe Thomasberger and Sabine von Aulock (Not present: Barnaby Feder and Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman)


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Reclaiming Patriotism (7/3/2011)

Selections from a Worship Committee Sponsored Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Ms. Diane Finn and Mr. Joe Thomasberger.



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READINGS
From Abraham Lincoln, in an extemporaneous address in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861
From The Disuniting of America by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

SERMON
"Reclaiming Patriotism"
by Ms. Diane Finn and Mr. Joe Thomasberger

PRAYER & MEDITATION

CLOSING WORDS




Liturgist: Dennis Drew

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Childlike Faith in a World Come of Age

Selections from a Worship Committee Sponsored Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Ms. Eve Stevens.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READING
From Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison

SERMON
"Childlike Faith in a World Come of Age"
by Ms. Eve Stevens

CLOSING WORDS




Liturgist: Doug Andrews

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Flower Communion Sunday 2011

Selections from The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair's Flower Communion Sunday Worship Service by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman and Rev. Judy Tomlinson.



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COMMENTS ON COMMUNITY
Rev. Judy Tomlinson

PRAYER & MEDITATION
Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

FLOWER COMMUNION HOMILY
Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS
Rev. Judy Tomlinson & Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman


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Teach Me Something I Need to Know

Selections from the Teacher Recognition and RE Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

A CELEBRATION OF OUR TEACHING MINISTRY

Creating Home & Wonderful Welcome
Kindergarten/1st Grade Presentation

Our Whole Lives
1st/2nd Grade Presentation

Moral Tales/Timeless Themes
2nd/3rd Grade Presentation

Bibleodeon
4th/5th Grade Presentation

Compass Points
6th/7th Grade Presentation


WORDS OF APPRECIATION &
HONORING of GRADUATING SENIORS
Revs. Judy Tomlinson & C.B. Ortman


READING
An excerpt from a column by writer Ellen Goodman on the topic of parenting.

HOMILY
"Teach Me Something I Need to Know"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Doug Andrews

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The Wells We Drink From

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



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Book of John in the Christian scriptures
From the book When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

SERMON
"The Wells We Drink From"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Doug Andrews

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That Challenge of Memorial Day for a Unitarian Universalist

Selections from a Sunday morning Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Mr. Dave Chapman.



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Persian Sufi poet Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi
From Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America

SERMON
"That Challenge of Memorial Day for a Unitarian Universalist"
by Mr. Dave Chapman

RESPONSIVE READING
They Are with Us Still

SHARING OF NAMES

CLOSING WORDS


Liturgist: Brian Jude Piatkowski

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Spotlights & Floodlights & Headlights

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



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PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
Chapter 11 of Lao Tzu’s, Tao to Ching, translated by Stanly Rosenthal
A quote about love and light from Vincent Van Gogh

SERMON
"Spotlights & Floodlights & Headlights"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Dennis Drew

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Soul Dancing with Mental Illness

Selections from a Sunday morning Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Linda Goonewardene.


PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Talmud
From The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

SERMON
"Soul Dancing with Mental Illness"
by Rev. Linda Goonewardene

CLOSING WORDS



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Liturgist: Brian Jude Piatkowski

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