Order of Service
Carols and Lessons December 7, 2025 Chorealis
Service Leader: Karen Mills
Get your holiday spirit in gear with songs and readings from Chorealis. You're invited to share inseasonal songs (one's a world premiere!), heartfelt readings and the warmth of community on this winter morn.
Chimes
Welcome and Announcements
Land Acknowledgment
Prelude Winter Lullaby – by Pinkzebra - Chorealis
Opening Words We are in the Midst by Elizabeth M. Strong
Chalice Lighting The Nights of Midwinter by D.C. Fortune
Celebrating the Darkness by Jon VonRue read by Jeff Bisanz
Hymn #55 Dark of Winter by Shirley J. Denham
Reading: Joy by Jan K. Nielsen read by John Pater
Lighting the Advent Candles Marilyn Gaa
Hymn #345 With Joy We Claim the Growing Light by Samuel Longfellow
Meditation In word Winter Meditation by Tess Baumberger
In silence
In song Amid the Falling Snow - Chorealis
Arr. Audrey Snyder
Candles of Care and Connection
Hymn #226 People Look East by Eleanor Turgeon
Sharing Our Abundance Minister’s Discretionary Fund
Hymn#402 From You I Receive(Sing 2X) by Joseph and Nathan Segal
Candles of Joy and Concern
Reading: Unitarians (and UUs) at Christmas by Kate McKenna read by Lynne Turvey
Hymn #253 O Come, All Ye Faithful (v.1 (English) and 2) by John F. Wade
Reading: Invitation to Christmas by Shari Woodbury (adapted) read by Maria Ouderkirk
Hymn #224 Let Christmas Come by John H. Morgan
Reading: The Innkeeper by Anne Dilenschneider read by Theresa Wilkinson
Hymn #22 Once in Royal David’s City by Carl G. Seaburg
Reading: A Baby Was Born by Glenn Matthews read by Nicole Wright and Andrea Graham
Hymn #238 Within the Shining of a Star by Robert S. Lehman
Reading: Ding-a-Ling-a-Ling by Kaaren Solveig Anderson read by Karen Mills
Choral Response: Christmas Pops Trio arr. Jay Althouse – Chorealis
Closing Words/Extinguishing the Flame Christmas is Subversive by Kendyl L. R. Gibbons (adapted) read by Gordon Ritchie
Postlude Happy & Jolly & Gay by Gordon Ritchie - Chorealis
Carry the Flame Congregation
