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Thanks for checking in!
First Parish takes a break during the summer with a
special series of lay-led services.
We don't have orders of services posted,
as they frequently arrive on Sunday morning
with the speaker and are not available
ahead of time.
We'll leave this year end service available for you to see with
the caveat that,
like many of our services, this one diverges from what one might
call "typical."
COMING OF AGE CEREMONY
FLOWER COMMUNION
Sunday, June 8, 2008
The flowers today are given by Robin Schoenthaler for all the little children,
big and small and tall and far and near and dear.
GATHERING
- Prelude Niggun (Wordless Melody) by Riccardo Moretti
Carl Schlaikjer, oboe
- Ringing the Bell Tom Hogan
- Welcome Rev. John Marsh
- Lighting the Chalice Andrea Winslow
- Call to Worship #649 From Generation to Generation
- Singing #76 For Flowers That Bloom about Our Feet
- Moment of Greeting
THE MORNING OFFERING
- Arabeske by Robert Schumann
FLOWER COMMUNION
- Arch of Love We Will Rock You by Queen
- Introduction Rev. John Marsh
- Reading #724 Consecration of the Flowers (in unison)
- Children’s Recessional #414 As We Leave This Friendly Place
COMING OF AGE RECOGNITION
- Introduction Tina Schultz, Director of Religious Education
- Credo Sharing
- Anthem Dirait-on from Les Chansons Roses by Morten Lauridsen
Text by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Credo Sharing
- Singing #331 Life is the Greatest Gift of All
- Presentation of Gifts
- Congregational Prayer
- Student Recessional
CLOSING
- Singing #301 Touch the Earth
- Benediction Jim Benn
You are invited to join hands for our Benediction
- May faith in the Spirit of Life
Hope for the community of Earth
And love of the sacred in one another
Be ours now and in all the days to come.
- Postlude Erev Shel Shoshanim by Yosef Hadar
Text by Israeli poet Moshe Dor
Congregational Prayer
- One: We give thanks for this spiritual community, where children can grow
and come of age.
- All: We give thanks for the gift of all children in the life of our congregation.
- One: We give special thanks for the youth who are here with us today,
who have grown among us and have come of age.
- All: May they continue to grow into the fullness of their being,
Ever deepening their connection to the mystery and wonder of life.
- One: May they know, when their lives are difficult that their church is
never far away,
that there are people here who care deeply about them.
- All: That there are values here passed along through the generations,
to give them direction and confidence when they need it most.
- One: In this moment of celebration we are each renewed,
- All: In the sacred ties that bind young and old together in an interconnected
web of love.
Amen and blessed be.
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