Monthly Theme: Possibility
Sermon Topic: “A Rebirth of Wonder”
Sure on this shining night
Music: Samuel Barber
Text: James Agee
Sure on this shining night
Of starmade shadows round,
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground.
The late year lies down the north.
All is healed, all is health.
High summer holds the earth.
Hearts … read more.
Monthly Theme: Humility
Ngothando
Music: Mbusu Ndlovu
Text: Mbusu Ndlovu
Ngothando kuphela,
Sonqoba konke,
Izimo zonke,
Azinakusigwinya.
Sivul’ iinhliziyo zethu,
Singesabi Iutho,
Mgothando….
TRANSLATION:
Through love, only,
We ill conquer everything,
All situations
Cannot swallow (devour) us.
Let us open our hearts,
And let us fear nothing,
Through love…..
Angel Band
Music: William Bradbury arr. Shawn Kirchner
Text: Jefferson Hascall
The latest sun is … read more.
Monthly Theme: Ancestry
Mahk Jchi
Music: Pura Fe and Soni Moreno
Text: Pura Fe and Soni Moreno
Mahk Jchi tahm booee yahm pigihdee
Mahk Jchi tahm booee kahn spehwah ehbi
Mahmpi wah hoka yi nonk, tah hond tahni kihyee tiyee
Ghee weh meh yee-tiyee, Nanka yaht yah mooniyeh wahjhiseh
TRANSLATION:
Our hearts … read more.
Monthly Theme: Humility
Sermon Topic: “The Courage to be Wrong”
I’ll Fly Away
Music: Michael Bussewitz-Quarm
Text: Michael Bussewitz-Quarm
I’ll fly away past the trees, past the sea, past the sky.
I’ll see a light shine, beckon bright as the moon in the night.
And I can feel … read more.
Monthly Theme: Humility
Sermon Topic: “Mama’s Last Hug”
We’re the Water in the Waves
Music: Angela Salvaggione
Text: Leslie Takahashi
We’re the water in the waves
We’ve been travelling as one,
Riding first the crest and then the drop
In the moon, we’ve been the shine.
Through the sun, we’ve made the … read more.
Monthly Theme: Humility
Sermon Topic: “Masters of the Universe”
This Day
Music: Antonín Dvořák
Text: Antonín Dvořák
This day was made for great rejoicing,
this day is truly God’s creation!
The universe delight is voicing,
all Nature joins the celebration.
To watch the midges gaily dancing,
wee insects are perched on leaf and blossom,
while through … read more.
Monthly Theme: Ancestry
Sermon Topic: “ The View From the Mountaintop ”
On Wings of Hope
Music: Richard A. Nichols
Text: Jennifer Klein
On wings of hope you carry me,
To distant lands, to destiny,
Where music breathes its ebb and flow
And sets the flame of love aglow,
Where the spirit soars … read more.
Monthly Theme: Ancestry
Sermon Topic: “Feet of Clay”
O Vos Omnes
Music: Pablo Casals
Text: Traditional
O vos ómnes qui transítis per víam, atténdite et vidéte:
Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus.
TRANSLATION:
O all you who walk by on the road, pay attention and see:
if there be any sorrow like my … read more.
Monthly Theme: Ancestry
Sermon Topic: “Wells We Did Not Dig”
Reflections
Music: Jake Runestad
Text: Henry David Thoreau
We live but a fraction of our life.
We do not fill all our pores with our blood;
We do not inspire and expire fully and entirely enough,
So that the wave of each inspiration
Shall … read more.
Monthly Theme: Perseverance
Sermon Topic: “Practice, Practice”
La Golondrina
Music: Narciso Serradell arr. Alberto Grau
Text: Narciso Serradell
A donde irá
La golondrina
Buscando abrigo
Veloz y fatigada
La golondrina
Que de ahí se va
¡Oh! si en el cielo
Se hallara extraviada
Buscando abrigo
Y no lo encontrara.
Junto a mi pecho
Le pondré … read more.
