“Contradiction and Complexity”
Led by Rev. Ashley Burczak
22 December 2024
Welcome – Rev. Ashley Burczak
Opening Song – Kris Adams and Maggie & Molly Lum
“Helplessly Hoping” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Welcome and Announcements – Colleen Bongiovanni
Ringing the Bowl – Colleen Bongiovanni
Invocation – Kim Fitzgerald
This is another day we have been given.
This is indeed a sacred day.
Let us be grateful for the capacity to sense, feel, and understand.
Let us be grateful for the incredible gift of life,
And let us be especially grateful for
the ties of love which bind us together
Giving dignity, meaning, worth and joy to all of our days.
Chalice Lighting – Kim Fitzgerald
from Charlie Chaplin
Chalice Song – Lucy & Annie Rose Greenman and Maggie & Molly Lum
“Easy Bake Ovens” by Girly Man
Time For All Ages – Carolina Terrazas
“The Messiah Is One of Us”
(Pause for the children and others to gather)
“As You Go” by Kathleen Tracy
We hold you in our love as you go, as you go.
May your heart be at peace, as you go
To nurture the spark of your precious life.
We hold you in our love as you go.
Joys and Sorrows – Rev. Ashley Burczak
Moment of Silence
Sung Response – ‘Spirit of Meditation’
Reading – Kim Fitzgerald
from Rainer Marie Rilke
Anthem – Kris Adams and Maggie & Molly Lum
“Shake It Out” by Florence and the Machine
Sermon – Rev. Ashley Burczak
“Complexity and Contradiction”
Offering – Colleen Bongiovanni
1/3 of the plate donations for this month will support LAWS (The Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter)
Offering Interlude – Mary Matheny
Extinguishing the Chalice and Covenant – Kim Fitzgerald
This congregation is dedicated to the proposition
that behind all our differences and beneath all our diversities,
there is a unity that binds us together and makes us one
in spite of time and death and the space between the stars.
We pause now in silent witness to that unity.
by David Bumbaugh
Benediction – Rev. Ashley Burczak
Closing Hymn – Lucy & Annie Rose Greenman and Maggie & Molly Lum
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” by U2
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Worship Associate – Kim Fitzgerald
Board Host – Colleen Bongiovanni
Music Director – Kris Adams
Accompanist – Mary Matheny
Additional Singers – Maggie & Molly Lum, Lucy & Annie Rose Greenman
Live Stream Operator – Bill Roman
RE Leader – Carolina Terrazas
RE Teacher – Jayda Bello