Sunday Service 10/06/2024

Welcoming Forgiveness into our Lives

Welcoming Forgiveness into our Lives​
with Rory Solomon &
​Phil Kramer

​October 6, 2024 at 10:30 AM PT
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Come worship with
​the UUs!

See Order of Service below or HERE

We are in the season of the Jewish holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. What lessons do these days hold for us as UUs and how can they help us reflect on our place in the world? Join us as we discuss the ideas of forgiveness and a return to our true selves.

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You are welcome to join us in-person at our physical location:

          3616 East Lake Mead Boulevard
          Las Vegas, NV 89115

If you are unable to join us live because of concerns for your health or other reasons, please join us online at Zoom.

You can join us at Zoom here: ​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84823621393 
The password is chalice.
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The Zoom room opens at 10:25 AM.
​Worship begins at 10:30 AM

​Click here to submit your announcements

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Order of Service
Welcoming Forgiveness
​into our Lives​
October 6, 2024

Prelude: Kol Nidre - High Holy Day Prayer

Welcome Words with Phil Kramer

Greeting & Ringing the Bell with Phil Kramer

Land Acknowledgment/Appreciation with Phil Kramer

Chalice Lighting with Alanna
Congregation Response:
Here, today, in this place and with these people,
May we listen so that we can hear;
May we hear so that we can feel;
May we feel so that we can know; and
May we know so that we can change ourselves and this world.
May this chalice we light, Light our Way. (Erik Walker Wikstrom)

Opening Words with Rory Solomon
To Be Holy: When Yom Kippur and National Coming Out Day Fall on the Same Day by Nuriel Gutman

Invocation with Keri Pool
Let Go by Lois Van Leer

Opening Song: We Begin Again in Love, STJ#1037

Story for All Ages with Rory Solomon
What If Nobody Forgave? By Barbara Marshman

Ritual with Phil Kramer
Music during Ritual: Oif’n Pripitchik - Jewish Folk Song


Reading with Keri Pool
Meditation on Forgiveness (a ritual for Yom Kippur) by Jay E Abernathy, Jr



Shofar blowing

Offering with Alanna
Congregation Response:
“With gratitude for the abundance in our own lives, we give for the life of this congregation and the benefit of the larger community.”
Music during Offering: Oh, Sing Hallelujah, #217 

Gift Box with Rory Solomon

Sermon with Rory Solomon
Welcoming Forgiveness into our Lives

Closing Song: Open My Heart, #1013 

Call to Action with Phil Kramer

Benediction with Rory Solomon (A Responsive Reading)
Forgiveness by Amanda Udis-Kessler

Chalice Extinguishing with Alanna
Congregation Response:
“We release that which was called with love and gratitude, and we extinguish the flame, but not our commitment to being a beacon in the desert. This burns brightly until we gather again.”

Announcements with Phil Kramer

Postlude: Niggun for Erev Rosh Hashanah