Please join us at 10 AM this Sunday on the UUFEC Facebook Page and on the UUFEC website to watch a recording of our traditional Flower Communion.

ORDER OF SERVICE
APRIL 18, 2021

Prelude: Hymn # 61 “Lo the Earth Awakes Again”

performed by members of the Bell Street Chapel Choir with Jess Huetteman, pianist

Welcome and Chalice Lighting:

Amy Weisberg, Service Leader ; Chalice Lighting words by Norbert Capek.

Reverend Capek’s Story Part One:

Ella Farley, Reader

Hymn #78 “Color and Fragrance”

Words and Music by Norbert F. Capek (18-1942);

translated by Paul and Anita Munk; English version by Grace Ulp, 1926.

Pianist, Sandra Hunt; Music Director Voice:
Eleuthera Diconca-Lippert, Song Leader and Choir Director at Unitarian Church of Montreal.
(Used with Permission.)

Color and fragrance, magical rhythm, sweet changing music will change us with them:
life within life, inner light gently glowing, surely you seem to be God’s vision growing.

O starry heavens, worlds of all splendor, suns without number, new life engender:
wheel in a wheel with the light brightly glowing, moving in harmony, God’s vision growing.

Hand full of pebbles, high mountain passes, depths of the ocean, dew on the grasses:
great things and small, with the light gently glowing, word of the wordless song, God’s vision growing.

Delicate beings, lacewing and sparrow in field and forest, clover and yarrow:
life greeting life with the light brightly glowing, none are too small to be God’s vision growing.

Reverend Capek’s Story: Part 2

Sophia Lopez, Reader

Flower Communion Part 1: Gathering the Flowers:

Amy Weisberg, Reader

Bringing Flowers Forward

(Slide show with music featuring flowers from members’ gardens.)
Music: Hymn #100 “Peace Like a River” Chelsea Sardoni, mezzo-soprano; Jess Huetteman, piano

Reading: Words of Maja Chapek

Amy Weisberg, Reader

Reverend Capek’s Story Part Three

Shari Allen, Reader

Hymn #8 “Mother Spirit, Father Spirit”

Dave Rowe recorded for the Unitarian Universalist Society of Iowa City for the service on October 4, 2020.

Rev. Capek’s Story Part 4

Blake Farley, Reader

Flower Communion Part 2: Taking a Flower Home

Amy Weisberg, Reader

Bringing a Flower Home Slide Show

with Hymn #95 “There is More Love Somewhere”
Sung by Jess Huetteman.

Extinguishing the Chalice

Postlude

“Rhymes and Reasons” by John Denver (Used with permission)