January 8, 2023- Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Sunday is a yearly service in which we name and honor those we’ve lost in the congregation and the wider community. Through story, song, and ritual, this service invites us to name and make room for the loss, grief, and sadness in ourselves, within this community, and beyond in the wider world. This service includes an invitation to name with a neighbor, in-person or at home, any losses you’d like to hold in community, as well a candle lighting ritual in which we name and honor the deaths in our congregation this last year. Join us on Sunday to be and become the community of love and know that together, love can make every grief and suffering bearable for us all.

Singing to Gather- Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout (:20)

Words of Welcome- Rev. Jen Crow (5:45)

Time for All Ages- Making Room for Sadness- Lauren Wyeth (14:00)

Hymn- Come Sing a Song With Me- Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout (21:03)

Practice of Giving and Receiving- Rev. Arif Mamdani, Isabel Quast (26:02)

Poem and Cycle of Life - Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye- Rev. Ashley Harness (30:49)

Remembrance Ritual- Rev. Arif Mamdani (35:29)

Benediction- Rev. Arif Mamdani (54:00)

Music for Going- Where You Go I Will Go, Beloved by Shoshana Jedwab