Theme “Community”
Let us give thanks
A prayer for use at the General Assembly Annual Meetings, 2022
Let us give thanks for:
The meeting organisers
The secretaries and letter writers
The minute takers
The small-change counters
The safeguarding officers
Those website wonks and brave Zoom managers
The article writers
The flower arrangers
The meeters and greeters
The biscuit providers
The gloved washer-uppers
Those who dust, mop and vacuum
The chair stackers
The car-lift givers
The hand holders
Those
Closing words
Our meeting draws to a close –
But the love and friendship remain:
The joy of having met together,
The connections,
And the spiritual nourishment we have received will stay with us,
And will continue to bless us, this day and in the days to come.
Amen and Blessed Be.
A regular Sunday
Here we have gathered to make another link in the chain of days that binds our lives in fellowship.
We bring our whole self to worship, with all the pleasures and the pains of our daily lives. All our hopes and dreams and fears are here with us. Our remembrance of days past and of people
Let our community be one of warmth
Let our community here, be like this flame.
Let us be strong. Let us be vibrant. Let us be bright.
And above all else, let our community be one of warmth.
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Gad i’n cymuned yma, fod fel y fflam hon.
Gadewch i ni fod yn gryf. Gadewch i ni fod yn fywiog. Gadewch i ni fod yn ddisglair.
Ac yn
Chalice lighting, for those who are not in the room
We light this Chalice for the people who are not in the room.
May our circle of light fall upon those on the margins; the vulnerable and forgotten, those trapped at home by illness and age, those who feel judged, excluded, ashamed, in pain.
May our warmth hold those with precarious lives; carers and struggling parents, those
We are blessed with an abundance of good things
We are blessed with an abundance of good things, for we which we are truly thankful – as long as we remember them.
We are privileged with great freedom and power, for which, in return, we act with responsibility.
We are lucky to have shared this time and space together, because we are lucky to
Prayer for the Unitarian General Assembly
Eternal Spirit, we celebrate the unity and diversity of our Unitarian General Assembly, and the congregations of individuals it joins together in loving fellowship.
May we guard and cherish always, the right of religious free thought won for us by the sacrifices of past generations.
We celebrate the joy of being together, of
Prayer for induction of a Minister
I invite you to share a time of reflection, of meditation, and of prayer.
I call you to be alone, together.
I call you, one by one, to the priesthood and the prophethood of all believers,
and together, I call you to the ministry of the whole congregation.
Ministry – it’s not the task