What’s UUp 8/2/26?

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Save the Date

Saturday, August 1 from 11am — 1:00pm
Women’s Alliance  Social Action Shower. Click here for more information.

Children’s RE Summer Fun – Solar Oven Day

  • The Children’s RE meets during the entire service, beginning in the social hall. We’ll build a pizza box solar oven to make s’mores.
  • The children are also welcome to attend the Lammas Celebration in the sanctuary but will be expected to remain there the entire time. There’s no Moment for the Children during the service.

The Nursery is open for babies and pre-k from 9:30am-12:15pm on Sundays.

Please complete one registration form for each child you would like to participate in Religious Exploration in the coming year. This includes the nursery.

Join Us Sunday at 11:00am

A Lammas Celebration

Guest Speakers:
Lady Vanessa and Ron Zorn
 

We will celebrate Lammas, “loaf mass,” (also called Lughnasadh) in circle format as we honor the August holiday. This festival marks the bounty of the grain harvest, which may also manifest as the successes in our own lives. Now as the sun begins journeying to the south, we acknowledge our achievements, and our personal harvest, by coming together in community to symbolically return these blessings to the earth.

About Our Speakers
Lady Vanessa is a High Priestess of the Wica in Louisville where she’ been active since 1981. Transformative and earth-centered practices are the focus of her spell work, tarot readings, rituals, and teachings. As an advocate for Pagan paths, Lady Vanessa has appeared on local media, but more often facilitates public rituals and classes through CUUPs at First Unitarian Church, Louisville Pagan Roots Festival (FKA Louisville Pagan Pride), and Clifton Unitarian Universalist Church.  In addition to being a Unitarian Universalist Church member, she has a M.A.T. and holds ministerial credentials of public record through the New Wiccan Church. For fun, goodwill outreach, and charity, Lady Vanessa regularly dances with Bluegrass Black Hats.

Ron Zorn is a long-time member of First Unitarian Universalist Church and a Co-Facilitator of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) here at First U. He is also the  Co-Chair of the National CUUPS organization on their Board of Directors. He follows an Earth-Centered Spiritual path and enjoys collecting books on a variety of religious paths that are outside of the Abrahamic faiths.
 

For the zoom link, Click here. The Meeting ID is 4508929882 if you can’t attend in person.  You will not need a password. Contact the volunteer desk if you have trouble getting online.

The Order of Service (Bulletin)

Gathering Music          Ethan

Lighting the Chalice & Black Lives Matter Candles
Marka Silvarosen and Lady Vanessa

Prelude   Ethan

Welcome     Patsy Selzer

Introduction to Lammas        Ron Zorn

Meeting Chant and Greetings        Lady Vanessa and Ron
          Earth below, Sky above,
          We gather here in peace and love

Calling the Quarters            Lady Vanessa and Ron
          The East, the East, the East, the Air, the Air, the Air
(repeat 3x)
          The South, the South, the South, the Fire, the Fire, the Fire
(repeat 3x)
          The West, the West, the West, the Water, the Water, the Water
(repeat 3x)
          The North, the North, the North, the Earth, the Earth, the Earth
(repeat 3x)

 

Chant #387   The Earth, Air, Fire, and the Water    Ethan
      The Earth, Air, Fire, Water

Words and Music: Anonymous (words to chant)
         The Earth, the Air, the Fire, the Water
Return, return, return, return

Blessing of the Elements        Lady Vanessa and Ron

Drawing the Circle            Lady Vanessa, Ron    Marka

Cleansing     Lady Vanessa, Ron, Marka and Rebecca Selene
Chant: Earth my body, Water my blood,
Air my breath, and Fire my spirit.

Chant #73      Chant for the Seasons         Ethan
Words: Mark L. Belletini; Music: Czech folk song
          “Summertime has turned the star wheel, Autumn is upon us.
          Sweet the angling sun, sweet up on the air the smell of blue mist rising.
          Summertime has turned the star wheel, Autumn is upon us.
          Glorious the trees, Glorious the site of rust leaves falling, falling.
          Summertime has turned the star wheel, Autumn is upon us.”

Group Response   from The Emerald Tablet of Hermes  Lady Vanessa
Trismegistus

Lammas Celebration       Lady Vanessa, Ron, Rebecca, Marka
          (words to chant)
          Hoof and horn. Hoof and horn. All that dies shall be reborn.
          Corn and grain. Corn and grain. All that falls shall rise again.

Dismissing the Quarters             Lady Vanessa, Ron

Declarations of Our Mission and Covenant (unison)       Marka
We are a church of reason and spirit
that witnesses for progressive faith,
nurtures our community, and transforms our world.

Love is the spirit of this church and service is its law.
This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace,
to seek the truth in love, and to help one another.

Invitation to Generosity        Marka

Offertory      John Barleycorn Must Die    Ethan
Words and Music: Old English Traditional

Extinguishing the Chalice (unison)      Marka, Lady Vanessa
We extinguish these flames, but not the light of truth,
the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment.
These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Postlude          Ethan

Closing Words      Merry Meet         Ron
Old English; Traditional Farewell

Recessional              Ethan