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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 in seasonal songs (one's a world premiere!), heartfelt readings and the warmth of community on this winter morn.

Order of Service

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 (new hymn!) - Chorealis

Carry the Flame Congregation




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