Welcome
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One And All
UN Sunday
Tackling the Difficult Issues
October 20, 2013
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Ringing
the
Gong
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Welcome
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Announcements
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Lighting the Chalice
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Celebrating UN Sunday
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Celebrating UN Sunday
Some engagements that our faith’s UNO
are involved with:
• Department of Public Information
• Economic Social & Cultural Rights
• NGO Human Rights Commission
• Religions for Peace
• Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
• Faith & Ethics Network for the Int’l Criminal Court
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Celebrating UN Sunday
Intergenerational Seminars:
• Advancing a Dignified Life for All (2009)
• Ethical Aspects of Climate Change (2010)
• Empowering Women for a Better World (2011)
• Race and Immigration Need to Go Beyond Borders (2012)
• Sex, Love and Violence: Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
in a Globalized World (2013)
• Indigenous Peoples Rights (2014)
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Hymn #127
“Can I See Another’s Woe?”
Words: William Blake
Music: Melody from “Veni Redemptor Gentium”
Harmony: Seth Calvisius
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Sung by Choir and Congregation
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Hymn #127
“Can I See Another’s Woe?”
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Can I see another’s woe,
and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another’s grief,
and not seek for kind relief?
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Hymn #127
“Can I See Another’s Woe?”
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Can I see a falling tear,
and not feel my sorrow’s share?
Can a father see his child weep,
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nor be with sorrow filled?
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Hymn #127
“Can I See Another’s Woe?”
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Can a mother sit and hear infant groan,
an infant fear?
No, no, never can it be!
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Never, never can it be!
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Blue Ribbon Congregation Award
The United Nations
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The Unitarian Universalist
United Nations Office
Blue Ribbon Congregation Award
 Has a congregational member who is an envoy to the
UU United Nations Office
 Holds an annual “UN Sunday” Service
 Have 15 members or 5% of your congregation donate
individually to the UU United Nations Office
 As a congregation, donates to the UU United Nations
Office via an annual budget line or a collection plate
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Acceptance of the Award
On Behalf of the Congregation
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Michael Goldsmith: Board President
Liza Burby: Board Vice President
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UU-UNO Youth Award
Earth Marble Ceremony
Congratulations to our 6th and 7th Graders
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Weaving Community
Joys and Concerns
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Hymn #123: “Spirit of Life”
Words & Music by Carolyn McDade
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Spirit of Life, come unto me.
Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.
Blow in the wind, rise in the sea;
Move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.
Roots hold me close; wings set me free;
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Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.
Silent Meditation
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Sharing in Support of
“Every Child Is Our Child”
Kamila Jacob
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UU-UNO Envoy Coordinator
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Offertory
“Prayer of the Children”
Words and Music: Kurt Bestor
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Offertory
“Prayer of the Children”
Words and Music: Kurt Bestor
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Can you hear the prayer of the children?
On bended knee, in the shadow of an unknown room
Empty eyes with no more tears to cry
Turning heavenward toward the light
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Offertory
“Prayer of the Children”
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Crying softly, help me
To see the morning light of one more day
But if I should die before I wake,
I pray my soul to take
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Offertory
“Prayer of the Children”
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Can you feel the hearts of the children?
Aching for home, for something of their very own
Reaching hands, with nothing to hold on to,
But hope for a better day a better day.
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Offertory
“Prayer of the Children”
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Crying softly, help me
To feel the love again in my own land
But if unknown roads lead away from home,
Give me loving arms, away from harm
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Offertory
“Prayer of the Children”
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Can you hear the voice of the children?
Softly pleading for silence in a shattered world?
Angry guns preach a gospel full of hate,
Blood of the innocent on their hands
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Offertory
“Prayer of the Children”
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Crying softly, help me
To feel the sun again upon my face,
For when darkness clears I know you’re near,
Bringing peace again
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Offertory
“Prayer of the Children”
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Dali cujete sve djecje molitive?
(Croatian translation:
‘Can you hear all the children’s prayers?’)
Can you hear the prayer of the children?
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The Children's Recessional
"Benediction"
Words and Music: Richard Hyman
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Go now in peace; May the world protect you.
Go now in peace; Now in peace.
May the world protect you;
May the world enfold you and keep you
In loving arms, and loving hearts,
Go now in peace.
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UN Sunday
Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office
Tackling the Difficult Issues
October 20, 2013
“Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
in a
Globalized World”
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Intergenerational Spring Seminars
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UN Sunday
Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office
Tackling the Difficult Issues
October 20, 2013
“Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
in a
Globalized World”
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Foreign Ministers Talk at the United Nations:
LGBT Human Rights
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09/26/2013
Country Breakout of LGBT Rights Declaration at the UN
As of 2013
Support: 94 Member States have signed the “LGBT Rights Declaration “ in the General Assembly
Oppose: 54 Member States oppose
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46 Member States have not officially opposed or supported
The United Nations
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The UU
United Nations Office
Music and Song
“Serenity”
Words by Reinhold Neibuhr, Music by Richard Hyman
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Grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Grant me courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
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Closing Words
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Extinguishing the Chalice
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Postlude
Music by Richard Hyman
A time for quiet reflection.
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UN Sunday
Tackling the Difficult Issues
October 20, 2013
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UN Sunday
Tackling the Difficult Issues
October 20, 2013
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