Sunday, January 30, 2011

Groundhog Day and Second Chances

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


PRAYER & MEDITATION


READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From Chapter 9 of the Tao te Ching by Lao Tsu, translated by Charles Muller
From the movie Groundhog Day


SERMON
"Groundhog Day and Second Chances"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS



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Liturgist: Steve Schoenwiesner

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Living and Leaving a Legacy

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair by Rev. Wendy Williams.


PRAYER & MEDITATION


READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Book of Matthew, Chapter 5, Verses 13-15
"A Drop in the Bucket" from Gordon McKeeman’s book Out of the Ordinary


SERMON
"Living and Leaving a Legacy"
by Rev. Wendy Williams

CLOSING WORDS



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Rev. Wendy Williams has served the UU congregation in Flagstaff, Arizona since 2005. She graduated from Meadville Lombard Theological School. Wendy comes to the ministry after practicing law for fifteen years.

Liturgist: Steve Schoenwiesner

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Why We Can’t Wait

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


PRAYER & MEDITATION


READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Hebrew book of Micah
From the book, Why We Can’t Wait, by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


SERMON
"Why We Can’t Wait"
by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS



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Liturgist: Steve Schoenwiesner

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Adventures in Community Ministry

Selections from a Sunday Worship Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, presented by Rev. Jackie Lahey.

PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS
- From Dorothy Day
- From A Faith For All Seasons by Unitarian Universalist Minister William Murry

SERMON
"Adventures in Community Ministry"
by Rev. Jackie Lahey

CLOSING WORDS



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Liturgist: Steve Schoenwiesner

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

A New Slant on Sacred

Selections from a Worship Committee Sponsored Service at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, presented by Mr. Barnaby Feder.

A TASTE OF SHINTO PRAYER

READINGS
- From a report by Scott Rudolph to the UUA on his Tsubaki internship in August 2010
- "Purification," an excerpt from The Introduction to Shinto: The Way of the Kami (a Tsubaki publication) by Yukiyasu Yamamoto

SERMON
"A New Slant on Sacred"
by Barnaby Feder

CLOSING WORDS


BONUS CONTENT
Audio files unable to be played during the service:
- Japanese Secadas
- AMATSU NORITO - Japanese Oration



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Liturgist: Steve Schoenwiesner

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