Sunday, September 6, 2026  

  

Lighting the Chalice  

  

Prelude  

Sure on this Shining Night – Samuel Barber 

Alicia Martinez, Soprano and Alan Dyer, Piano 

 

 
 

Call to Worship  

  

*Hymn #95 

Sing and rejoice.

Sing and rejoice.

Let all things living now

sing and rejoice

  

 

*Affirmation  

Love is the doctrine of our church; 

The quest of truth is its sacrament, 

And service is its prayer. 

To dwell together in peace, 

To seek knowledge in freedom, 

To serve humanity in fellowship, 

To the end that all souls shall grow 

in harmony with the divine— 

Thus do we covenant with each other.         

 

 

 

*Doxology  

From all that dwell below the skies  

Let songs of faith and hope arise; 

Let peace, goodwill on Earth be sung 

Through every land, by every tongue.  

        

Story 

We sing our children to their classes at 11:00am 

 

Welcome  

  

Offertory  

Laudate Dominum – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  

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Reading  

The Great Surmise by Carl Scovel

  

Interlude           

Full Circle – Loreena McKennitt

  

Prayer  

Hymn #410 Surprised by Joy – Words: Eric Routley; Music: English folk melody 

 

Surprised by joy no song can tell,

no thought can compass, here we stand

to celebrate eternal love,

to reach for one another’s hand.

 

Beyond all other gifts is this,

best gift, alone to mortals given;

the love of parent, lover, friend

attunes our hearts to bliss of heaven.

 

Faith, hope, and love here come alive; life’s deepest treasure is made known when in forgiving, giving all, insep’rably, two are as one

 

Sermon  

“Joyfully Deep” Rev. Beth Dana

  

Hymn #100 I’ve Got Peace Like a River – Words and Music: Marvin V. Frey       

I’ve got peace like a river,

I’ve got peace like a river,

I’ve got peace like a river in my soul. (2x)

 

I’ve got joy like a fountain…

 

I’ve got love like an ocean…

 

I’ve got pain like an arrow…

 

I’ve got tears like the raindrops …

 

I’ve got strength like a mountain …

 

Benediction  

  

Postlude  

Never Ending Road (Amhran Duit) – Loreena McKennitt

 

  

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