1. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Welcome to
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Assisted hearing devices are available at the Welcome Table in the Small Hall

2. Performed by Sharon Skidgel
Prelude
Legacy
By: Naoka Hiraoka
Performed by Sharon Skidgel

3. Music Notes
Today we pay homage to some of the musicians who have influenced Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Artistic influences when he was at Howard University: "The art I was coming to love lived in this void, in the not yet knowable, in the pain, in the question. The older poets introduced me to artists who pulled their energy from the void – Bubber Miley, Otis Redding ..."
Bubber Miley was the greatest soloist of the early Ellington bands. His growling trumpet is a highlight of numerous recordings from the 1920s. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 32.

4. Lyrics Someday When we are wiser When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray
Someday we may yet live
To live and let live
Someday
Life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
Greed wil not pay
God speed
This bright millenium
Let it come
Wish upon the moon
One day
Soon.

6. Gather Us In Gathering Song by Marty Haugen
adapt. Rev. Dr. Nori J. Rost

7. Here in this place new light is streaming,
Verse 1
Here in this place new light is streaming,
now is the darkness vanished away;
see in this place our fears and our dreaming,
brought here to all in the light of this day.

8. Gather us in the lost and forsaken, gather us in no two just the same;
Chorus 1
Gather us in the lost and forsaken,
gather us in no two just the same;
call to us now, and we shall awaken,
we shall arise at the sound of our name.

9. We are the young, our lives are a myst’ry,
Verse 2
We are the young, our lives are a myst’ry,
we are the old with wisdom and grace;
we have been sung throughout all of hist’ry,
called to be light to the whole human race.

10. Gather us in the Buddhist and Pagan,
Chorus 2
Gather us in the Buddhist and Pagan,
Humanist, Atheist join in the throng;
gather us in the Theist and Seeking,
give us the courage to enter the song.

11. Not in the dark of buildings confining,
Verse 3
Not in the dark of buildings confining,
not in some heaven light years away;
here in this place the new light is shining,
now is the moment, now is the day.

12. Gather us in from all tribes and nations,
Chorus 3
Gather us in from all tribes and nations,
gather us in, no one left alone;
gather us in, a great celebration,
fire of love in our flesh and our bones.

14. Rev. Dr. Nori Rost ASUUC Senior Minister
Welcome and Sounding of the Bell
Rev. Dr. Nori Rost
ASUUC Senior Minister

16. We the Heirs of Many Ages #102 in Singing the Living Tradition
Hymn
We the Heirs of Many Ages
words by: John Andrew Storey
music by: I-to Loh
#102 in Singing the Living Tradition

17. We the heirs of many ages, with the wise to guide our ways,
honor all earth's seers and sages,
build our temples for their praise.
Verse 1

18. But the good we claim to cherish, all that Christ and Buddha taught,
unrepentant hearts let perish,
spurning truth most dearly bought.
Verse 2

19. Centuries of moral teaching, words of wisdom, ancient lore,
all the prophet souls' beseeching
leaves us heedless as before.
Verse 3

20. Late in time, may we, forsaking all our cruelty and scorn,
see a new tomorrow breaking
and a kinder world be born.
Verse 4

22. Chalice Lighting
John Garrett
ASUUC Member

23. In our church we believe… Black Lives Matter
Women’s Rights = Human Rights
No Human Is Illegal
Science Is Real
Love Is Love
Water is Life
Kindness Is Everything
No matter your faith or ability
ALL are welcome here!
--new sign for All Souls

24. We light this chalice to symbolize the illumination of our minds through science.

26. Bringing Buckets to Church
Story For All Ages
Bringing Buckets to Church
as told by Rev. Nori

30. Reeb Children’s Benediction
Singing the Children Out
Reeb Children’s Benediction
words and music: Ian W. Riddell

31. Go in love, our hearts go with you.
Go in joy, our hopes go too.
Learn in love and grow in wisdom.
Shine your light in all you do.

33. ASUUC Board of Trustees
Reading
Gay Harrison
ASUUC Board of Trustees

34. and then I am past them,
looking up valley at the mountains
where the wind blows the snow
in long white curls off the peaks.
I want to return, I think,
to a different chapter—

35. but I don’t believe it.
There are no fewer opportunities
now to fall in love,
and there are a whole lot more
chances to be of service.
I tell myself I was born

36. When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
-Patanjali

38. Now, More than Ever Rev. Nori Rost
Today’s Message
Now, More than Ever
Rev. Nori Rost

41. ASUUC Board of Trustees
Offertory Reading
Gay Harrison
ASUUC Board of Trustees

42. “Let us not, therefore, be discouraged, though for the present we should see no great number of churches professedly Unitarian…We are, as it were, laying gunpowder, grain by grain, under the old building of error and superstition, which a single spark may hereafter inflame; in consequence of which that edifice, the erection of which has been the work of ages, may be overturned in a moment, and so effectually as that the same foundation can never be built on again…

43. And til things are properly ripe for such a revolution, it would be absurd to expect it, and in vain to attempt it.”
- Joseph Priestley(1787)

44. The offering will now be joyfully given and gratefully received.

46. Performed by: ASUUC Band
Offertory Music
Blackbird
By: The Beatles
Performed by: ASUUC Band

47. Lyrics O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud—
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says, 'I burn.'
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use language we can comprehend.

48. Lyrics Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end.
And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.

49. Music Notes
Parts of Redding's final recording were made just two days before his death in a plane crash. "Dock of the Bay" was the first posthumous single to top the charts in the United States.

52. From You I Receive #402 in Singing the Living Tradition
Offertory Response
From You I Receive
words and music: Joseph and Nathan Segal
#402 in Singing the Living Tradition

53. From you I receive,
to you I give,
together we share,
and from this we live.

55. Joys and Concerns
Congregation

56. Opening
I am sending you light____
to heal you, to hold you.
to hold you in love.

58. Closing
I am sending you light____
to heal you, to hold you.
to hold you in love.

60. Closing Words
Rev. Dr. Nori Rost

61. Neither the sword of popes, nor the cross, nor the image of death — nothing will halt the march of truth—
--Francis David

63. From Age to Age #105 in Singing the Journey Hymn
Words: Frederick Lucian Hosmer
Music: Thomas Benjamin
#105 in Singing the Journey

64. From age to age how grandly rise the prophet souls in line;
Verse 1
From age to age how grandly rise
the prophet souls in line;
above the passing centuries
like beacon lights they shine
like beacon lights they shine.

65. They witness to one heritage, one spirit's quick_ning breath,
Verse 2
They witness to one heritage,
one spirit's quick_ning breath,
one widening reign from age to age
of freedom and of faith,
of freedom and of faith.

66. Their kindling power our souls confess; though dead they speak today:
Verse 3
Their kindling power our souls confess;
though dead they speak today:
how great the cloud of witnesses
encompassing our way,
encompassing our way..

67. Through every race, in every cline, one song shall yet be heard:
Verse 4
Through every race, in every cline,
one song shall yet be heard:
move onward in thy course sublime,
O everlasting Word
O everlasting Word.

69. words and music: Judy Fjell
Extinguishing the Chalice / Song
As We Leave This Place
words and music: Judy Fjell

70. Now, as we leave this place, the chalice dims 1
Now, as we leave this place,
the chalice dims
but the fire still burns within our hearts
beyond these doors.

71. Now, as we leave this place, mem’ries of each and ev’ry face 2
Now, as we leave this place,
mem’ries of each and ev’ry face
carry us ___ into the world.

72. for now we know ___ that something 3
And we will return
for now we know ___ that something
greater ___ than any of us ___ alone
is part of us ___ as we leave this place.

74. Performed by Sharon Skidgel
Postlude
Hero's Dream
By Jim Brickman
Performed by Sharon Skidgel

76. Music Notes
Coates:
"Perhaps you remember that time we went to see Howl's Moving Castle on the Upper West Side. You were almost five years old. The theater was crowded, and when we came out we rode a set of escalators down to the ground floor. As we came off, you were moving at the dawdling speed of a small child. A white woman pushed you and said, "Come on!" Many things now happened at once. There was the reaction of any parent when a stranger lays a hand on the body of his or her child. And there was my own insecurity in my ability to protect your black body I turned and spoke to this woman, and my words were hot with all of the moment and all of my history."

78. Lyrics
She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
So you better treat her right.

79. Please enjoy the Fellowship Hour
following service
in the Small Hall
Hosted by
The ASUUC Men’s Group

80. for being part of our community today
Thank you
for being part of our community today