Now Let Us Sing!

Now Let Us Sing!
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
June 1, 2025
Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Randy McKean, Worship Associate

Music often serves as entertainment or as a backdrop to other events in our lives.  Come join us as we free music from those expectations, and celebrate its power to inspire, to illuminate, to heal, to create community.  

Song for Gathering  In These Hard Times by Linda Hirschhorn (after Bertolt Brecht)  

Land Acknowledgement  

Lighting of the Chalice & Singing the Children on Their Way  This Little Light of Mine 

Greeting  How Do Ya Do? with Jan Spencer, UU Fellowship of Beaufort, SC  

Welcome  Randy McKean, Worship Associate

Opening Word  UUCM Choir, Toby Thomas Rose, director 
Alleluia by Randall Thompson   

Song Now Let Us Sing #368 by anonymous  

Music  Randy McKean, clarinet 
The E’er Do Wells by Randy McKean 

Music Kathryn Young, Taylor Carey, and Mark Grove  
Roseville Fair by Bill Staines 
I Am by Kathryn Young 

Joys & Sorrows  Comfort Me #1002 by Mimi Bornstein 

Meditation  UUCM Choir
Sicut Cervus (as the deer longs for running streams) by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Music  Toby Thomas Rose, piano 
Piano sonata op 81a mov 1 Ludwig van Beethoven  

Offering  Randy McKean

Offertory  UUCM Choir 
Spirit Sang All Day by Gerald Finzi 

Dedication  Randy McKean

Thank You & Announcements

Closing Song  This Joy That I Have by Shirley Caesar 

Community Benediction / Extinguishing of the Chalice  
                Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again.   

Music for Going Forth