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:
Earth Day - April 22 (learn more here)
U.S. declares war on Germany - April 6, 1917 (learn more here)
Jazz Appreciation Month (learn more here)
National Poetry Month (learn more here)
Sexual Assault Awareness Month (learn more here)
Child Abuse Prevention Month(learn more here)
Autism Awareness Month (learn more here)
Financial Literacy Month (learn more here)
Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month (learn more here)
Religious:
Lent (Christian) - Mar 4- Apr 14
Pesach/Passover (Jewish) - April 11 - 18 (learn more here)
Good Friday (Christian) - April 16 - Easter (Christian)
Holocaust Memorial Day/Yom Ha'Shoah (Jewish) April 23-24 (learn more here)
Unitarian Universalist:
William Ellery Channing’s birthday - April 7 (learn more here)
Hosea Ballou’s birthday - April 30 (learn more here)
Climate Justice Month - Mar 22 - Apr 22 (learn more here)
For Fun and On the Fringe:
April Fool’s Day - Apr 1 - (learn more here)
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
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
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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