Wheel of the Year: Life Springs Forth
Date and time:
Sunday, 29 April 2012 - 10:30am - 11:30am
A celebration of life, we will be talking of fairy's, jumping the "bale fire" and dancing the maypole. Please bring a one inch by nine foot colored ribbon of your choice (per person) to participate in the May pole dance.
Opening 10:30 – 10:40
10:15 Prelude Fairytale, Epona and The Bard Dance by Enya from the Celts
10:30 Procession of Choir
§ CHOIR SINGS: Air Moves Us,
Welcome: - Welcome to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Southern Maryland. My name is
*Opening Hymn #123 Spirit of Life
- All stand to sing opening hymn. Service Leader
Reading # 563 A lifelong Sharing
Sharing (10:40-10:55)
Sharing Joys and Concerns / Sorrows.
SL invites people to come forward and speak while placing a feather in the vase
Choir Sings: The Dawning of the Day
Offertory
Let there be an offering to sustain and strengthen this place that is sacred to so many of us, a community of memory and of hope, for we are now the keepers of the dream.
Part of the dream is a world without want, and so we share with others. Non pledge Donations or in other words, cash contributions will be given to Southern Maryland Food Bank this month. The Food bank distributes to Southern Maryland food pantries.
- SL hands basket to collectors.
Choir Sings: Ise Oluwa
- Time For all Ages:
We are the Church of the Open Minds, Loving Hearts and Helping Hands
- Book Fairy Houses, ISBN13: 9780970810458 by Tracy Kane
- Exiting Song (if children 5 and under present)
Message (10:55 – 11:25)
- Explanation of Beltane, the Bale Fire and Maypole
Choir Sings: Fire of the Heart
Do Bale fire blessing (outside) then Maypole using song Wandering Willie’ The Wiley Old Bachelor Within a Mile of Clonbur by Heather Alexander s
Reading # 520 From the Tewa Indians of North America
Sharing of Cakes and Ale: “ We share this grape juice and bread as celebration of spring and the joy of love, blessings and community
Closing 11:25-11:30
*Closing Hymn # 325 Love Makes a Bridge
* Closing Words:
The Wheel of the Year turns on and on,
bringing us all to and from each Season,
and from and to another.
What will be is. What was will be.
We are a part of the relentlessly turning wheel of birth and life and death and birth.
And so it must be, now and forever.
Go in Peace.
Extinguishing the Chalice
Fellowship Circle
