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Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words The Season of Hope by Cliff Reed Give thanks for Spring! Here again, with its promise ever-new, with its many-yellowed flowers, its bright songbirds proclaiming their presence to the world – a world darkened, as ever, by human folly, by war and suffering undeserved. But … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Jeffrey Bowes 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 … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words A Mother’s Love by Cliff Reed We come to give thanks for the mothers who bore us and nurtured us, to celebrate the love and kindness we received from them. We come to give thanks for the children entrusted to us for … Read more
Prelude Romance No. 1 by John Brunning Opening Words by Martin Gienke We come together in this chapel from many directions, following a myriad of routes and roads of life, to get to this point. From here we will go our different ways, in different directions. May our time together for this hour, … Read more
Prelude Romance No. 1 by John Brunning Opening Words by Cliff Reed We gather to share our faith in the spirit of freedom, our doubts in the spirit of honesty. We gather to focus our love in prayer, to send it to those who suffer and grieve – in our own … Read more
Prelude Stella del mattino by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words The beauty of the whole by Meg Barnhouse We gather to worship, our hearts alive with hope that here we will be truly seen, that here we will be welcomed into the garden of this community, where the simple and the elegant, the … Read more
Prelude Chanson de Matin by Edward Elgar Opening Words Saints, Sinners and Seekers (after Max Coots) by Richard S. Gilbert (adapted) Welcome to this church, this sacred virtual space, a congregation, not of saints or sinners, but of seekers. We gladly greet those who are on a journey even if they … Read more
This week’s service commemorates the centenary of the institution of “the pips”, the Greenwich Time Signal… Prelude Air from Water Music Suite No. 1 by Handel Opening Words from the Sanskrit Look to this day – For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities … Read more
1 Spring Training Day: is being planned for May 2024, at Unitarian New Meeting in Birmingham, on the possible implications of Artificial Intelligence for Unitarian congregations. 2 Midland Unitarian Association AGM: this will be taking place on Saturday 30th March 2024 at Unitarian New Meeting in Birmingham, with Guest Speaker Dr Mark Fox. Further details … Read more
Prelude The Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini Before our service begins, a caveat: the words of the address are the opinion of the author alone, not of the Midland Unitarian Association as a whole…. Opening Words Prayer said on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of … Read more