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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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  • A close-up of hands playing the piano
    As we listen to the blessing of music, May we know this ending As more than a time of goodbye. May the warmth of this community and the memory of our chalice flame sustain our hearts and encourage our minds, as we engage the blessings of life's challenges and joys. The service has ended. Your...
    Benediction | By Maureen Killoran | August 10, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Arts & Music, Community, Trust, Unitarianism
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    You are in the story of the world. You are the world coming to know itself. May you trust that all you will ever say or do Belongs in the story of the world.
    Closing | By Ean Huntington Behr | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Inclusion, Trust
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    To pass the peace is a revolutionary act. It means to trust the outsider we fear, to wish well those who have hurt us; and to forgive at last ourselves. To offer the blessing to those around you is to love your neighbor and yourself and to be at peace with God. Pax vobiscum. Peace. Peace.
    Closing | By Clarke Dewey Wells | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Connections, Forgiveness, God, Peace, Trust
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the servant of truth. Question your convictions, for beliefs too tightly held strangle the mind and its natural wisdom. Suspect all certitudes, for the world whirls on—nothing abides. Yet in our inner rooms full of doubt, inquiry and suspicion, let a corner be...
    Closing | By Michael A Schuler | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Connections, Doubt, Trust, Truth, Unitarian Universalism
  • The shadow of two people holding hands is cast along an outdoor path.
    Invite the congregation to join hands. The hand in yours belongs to a person whose heart is sometimes tender, whose skin is sometimes thin, whose eyes sometimes fill with tears, and whose laughter is a beautiful sound....
    Closing | By Erika Hewitt | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Body, Connections, Direct Experience, Relationships, Trust, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability