Lindsay Donnelly-Bullington leads Summer Worship
Rev. Lawlor is unable to join us this Sunday.
Lindsay Donelly-Bullington is currently studying for a Master of Divinity degree at Boston University School of Theology with the goal of Unitarian Universalist ministry. From 2020 to 2022, she was on the staff of First Unitarian Church of Memphis, Tennessee, known as the Church of the River. She served as summer minister there in 2022, and with the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth through May.
FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON
Order of Service
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Lindsay Donnelly-Bullington
Service musicians: Alecia Batson
and Larry Thomas Bell
Prelude Sonata in G major Op. 14 no. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Allegro
Welcome and Opening Words
Opening Hymn No. #202 Come Sunday
Chalice Lighting
First Church Boston Affirmation
Love is the spirit of this church, and Service its law.
This is our great covenant, to dwell together in peace,
to seek the truth in love, and to help one another.
Announcements
Musical Meditation: In Common Things, 190 no. 2
Larry Thomas Bell (b. 1952)
based on a text by
Judson Minot Savage (1841-1918)
Responsive reading No. 557 A Common Destiny,
by Rev. David Eaton
Joys and Concerns
Prayer/Meditation
Sermon Reading by Rev. Katie McQuage Loukas
Sermon Hymn #1009 Meditation on Breathing
Sermon “Fire of Commitment” Lindsay Donnelly-Bullington
Call to the Offering
Offertory Memory Ned Rorem (1923-2022)
based on a text by
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Doxology OLD HUNDREDTH
Closing Hymn No. 131 Love Will Guide Us
Extinguishing the Chalice
We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community or the fire of commitment.
These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.
Closing Hymn No. 396 I Know This Rose Will Open (x3)
Postlude Sonata in G major Op. 14 no. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven Scherzo
- Allegro assai