Worship Schedule

Ingathering Chimes

Prelude: Variations on “I Brought My Spirit to the Sea”

Welcome and Announcements: Diana Keohane, Green Committee

Chalice Lighting: Teri Ralbovsky on behalf of the Stewardship Team

Call to Worship: “We Are All Longing to go Home” by Starhawk (#36 in Lifting Our Voices)

Hymn #4 in Singing the Living Tradition: “I Brought My Spirit to the Sea”

From the Covenant of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations:
Love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values. We are
accountable to one another for doing the work of living our shared values through the spiritual
discipline of Love. Inseparable from one another, these seven shared values include:
Interdependence.We honor the interdependent web of all existence. With reverence for the great web of life and with
humility, we acknowledge our place in it. We covenant to protect Earth and all beings from
exploitation. We will create and nurture sustainable relationships of care and respect, mutuality and
justice. We will work to repair harm and damaged relationships.
Led by Elaine Mahoney

Offertory: Variations on “For the Earth Forever Turning”

Joys and Sorrows (If you have a joy or sorrow to share, you may email it to the worship leader at
minister@uuchelmsford.org by 9am Sunday morning, or if you are attending in person, you may write it in
the joys and sorrows book at the back of the sanctuary. Please remember that services are live streamed
and that names are shared as written. The Pastoral Care and Service Team has a table during social hour
where you can send a card of comfort, support or celebration in care of other First Parishers.)

A Time for Meditation and Prayer

Congregational Response: “Hold Fast to Love” w/m by Lynn Harrison
(from Sing Out Love, the Unitarian Universalist Association’s new virtual hymnal)
Hold fast to love, for it’s not broken
Hold fast to love, it will endure
Hold fast to love, hold your heart open
For all this hurt, love is the cure

Ancient Reading: Excerpt from “A Community of the Spirit” by Rumi. Coleman Barks, trans.
Modern Reading: “Community” by Sobonfu Somé, #35 in Lifting Our Voices
     Readers: Diana Keohane and Neil Harmon

Embracing Possibility: “The Lowell Litter Krewe” – Ami Hughes

Hymn #163 in Singing the Living Tradition: “For the Earth Forever Turning”

Benediction & Extinguishing of the Chalice: “Already Unfolding…” by Rev. Tandi Rogers
          (Soul Matters, April 2026)

Postlude: Selections from Jean Sibelius’ “Finlandia.”