International Council of Unitarians and Universalists Global Chalice Reading
The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) distributes a new Chalice Lighting Reading each month. Congregations are invited to use it during worship services, and to introduce it as a Global Chalice Lighting.
This is a terrific resource for congregations that have an international vision, and wish to have a ritual element of that vision regularly included in worship services.
Global Chalice Lighting for November 2009
The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists announces the 75th in its monthly series of global chalice lighting readings. Congregations worldwide are invited to participate.
All ICUU-affiliated groups have been asked to submit brief chalice lightings for the project. Every month, a reading will be distributed to Unitarian and Universalist congregations around the world. We ask each congregation to use the reading for at least one worship service in the designated month, identifying it as the “Global Chalice Lighting” for that month and naming the group which submitted it. Readings will be circulated in English and, where different, in their original language.
It is hoped that the ICUU Global Chalice Lighting Project will enhance the worship experience in our congregations and raise awareness of the international dimensions of our religious movement.
This Global Chalice Lighting, in English and French, is to be used during November 2009.
English
You are welcome here visitor, friend or long time member.
You are welcome here.
With your family or partner
Or lover or alone
We joyfully welcome you here.
You are welcome here as believer
Or doubter, as joiner or loner.
You are welcome here feeling a part of us or not,
Full of energy or plain tired, seeking a vision or a rest.
You are welcome to join us as you are.
French
Que vous soyez visiteur, ami ou membre de langue date,
Vous êtes le bienvenu.
Que vous soyez avec votre famille
Ou avec votre conjoint, avec votre amant ou amante ou seul,
Nous vous accueillons avec joie.
Vous êtes le bienvenu ici, que vous soyez croyant ou cherchant,
Que vous partagiez facilement la vie de la groupe
Ou que vous préfériez la solitude.
Vous êtes le bienvenu ici, que vous vous sentiez, ou non, à l’aise chez nous,
Plein d’énergie ou fatigue, cherchant un défi ou le repos.
Tel que vous êtes, vous êtes le bienvenu chez nous.
—Rev. Ray Drennan
Canadian Unitarian Council
Global Chalice Lighting for December 2009
The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists announces the 76th in its monthly series of global chalice lighting readings. Congregations worldwide are invited to participate.
All ICUU-affiliated groups have been asked to submit brief chalice lightings for the project. Every month, a reading will be distributed to Unitarian and Universalist congregations around the world. We ask each congregation to use the reading for at least one worship service in the designated month, identifying it as the “Global Chalice Lighting” for that month and naming the group which submitted it. Readings will be circulated in English and, where different, in their original language.
It is hoped that the ICUU Global Chalice Lighting Project will enhance the worship experience in our congregations and raise awareness of the international dimensions of our religious movement.
This Global Chalice Lighting is to be used during December 2009.
English
Knowing we must die, we question what life means.
Final answers may elude us, but by living the questions, we create and discover meaning where we can.
—Rev. Forrest Church (1948-2009)
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
For more information contact international @ uua.org.
Last updated on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
