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Closing words bring the service to an end and prepare people to return home. If the service has been thematically tied together, the words can be a summation, a parting thought, a final nugget for people to reflect on throughout the week.

Benediction comes from the Latin, to speak well or the good words, and are a final blessing on the community. Benedictions are a blessing: words of comfort, strength, and encouragement for the week to come.

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  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk exposing our true self. To place our ideas—our dreams—before the crowd is to risk loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to...
    Closing | By Anonymous | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Failure, Hope, Love
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    We are never complete. We are never finished. We are always yet to be. May we always allow others to be, and help and enable each other to grow toward all that we are capable of becoming. Amen...
    Closing | By Anonymous | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Coming of Age
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    May the truth that makes us free, and the hope that never dies, and the love that casts out all fear lead us forward together, 'till the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
    Closing | By Anonymous | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Truth