"Sacred Aesthetics: Beauty in Nature and Spirit"
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​~Erol Delos Santos

2021 Albany Post Road | Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 
and virtually via YouTube

June 22, 2025 | 10:00 am 
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Worship Service

Prelude                                                                Gymnopedie Erik Satie

*Song of Gathering                                             STLT#347, Gather the Spirit

Welcome & Announcements                               Susi Dugaw, Board Member

Introduction of Guest Preacher                          Keith Fraase

Invocation                                                                  ‘Let Beauty In’ by Rebekah Savage

Chalice Lighting                                                        ‘We Are a People of Beauty’ by Kimberlee Anne, Tomczak Carlson                        Keith Fraase, Worship Associate

Affirmation (in unison)                                             Inspired by Love,
                                                                                         Our mission is to Seek our true nature,
                                                                                         Connect deeply and openly,
                                                                                         and Act for justice.

Time for All Ages                                                       A Plain and Simple Beauty from A Lamp in Every Corner by Janeen
                                                                                         Grohsmeyer

Singing the Children Out                                   (#413) Go Now in Peace
             (Children in attendance are invited to join our Religious Exploration program in the Fellowship Hall.)

Joys and Sorrows

Prayer/Meditation
Silent Meditation
Music for Meditation

Reading                                                                         Desert Flowers By Manish Mishra-Marzetti

*Hymn                                                                           STLT#21, For the Beauty of the Earth

Sermon                                                                         Sacred Aesthetics: Beauty in Nature and Spirit, Erol Delos Santos

*Hymn                                                                  STLT#326, Let All the Beauty We Have Known

Sharing our Abundance
This month, our collection will be shared with UNDUE Medical Debt. Their mission is to strengthen communities by erasing financially burdensome medical debt. Undue leverages donations to buy large, bundled medical debts at steep discounts, providing immediate relief to financially vulnerable families. Every $10 donated relieves $1,000 on average of undue medical debt for families in financial need. For more information, please visit unduemedicaldebt.org.

Offertory                                                              The River is Flowing Sun Bear/Plum Village

Dedication of the Offering (in unison)             May these gifts, and the work of our hands and hearts,
                                                                                         give power to all we stand for as a community of faith.

Donate online to UUCHV website https://www.uuchudsonvalley.org/ or scan the QR code below to donate via PayPal.com.

Chalice Extinguishing (in unison)
We extinguish this flame but not the light of truth, the warmth
of community, or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our
hearts until we are together again.
Benediction
Postlude Anthem for the Earth (piano vocal) Blake Rowe
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*Please rise in body or spirit.
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Shared Ministry Today
Erol Delos Santos,Guest Preacher
Keith Fraase Worship Associate
Blake Rowe, Director of Music
Jane Podell, Director of Religious Exploration
Greeters: Jim Russell and Ginny Stillman
Audio/Visual Techs: Gil Long, Chris Oliver, Gary Simon, Chris Fenton

Hymns

#347, Gather the Spirit
Gather the spirit, harvest the power.
Our sep’rate fires will kindle one flame.
Witness the mystery of this hour.
Our trials in this light appear all the same.
(Chorus)
Gather in peace, gather in thanks.
Gather in sympathy now and then.
Gather in hope, compassion and strength.
Gather to celebrate once again.
Gather the spirit of heart and mind.
Seeds for the sowing are laid in store.
Nurtured in love, and conscience refined,
with body and spirit united once more.
(Chorus)
Gather the spirit growing in all,
drawn by the moon and fed by the sun.
Winter to spring, and summer to fall,
the chorus of life resounding as one.
#21, For the Beauty of the Earth
For the beauty of the earth, for the splendor of the
skies,
for the love which from our birth over and around
us lies:
Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of
grateful praise.
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind’s
delight,
for the mystic harmony linking sense to sound and
sight:
Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of
grateful praise.
For the wonder of each hour of the day and of the
night,
hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon
and stars of light:
Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of
grateful praise.
For the joy of human care, sister, brother, parent,
child,
for the kinship we all share, for all gentle thoughts
and mild:
Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of
grateful praise.
 #326, Let All the Beauty We Have Known
Let all the beauty we have known illuminate our
hearts and minds.
Rejoice in wonders daily shown, in faith and joy,
and love that binds.
We celebrate with singing hearts the loveliness of
sky and earth,
the inspiration of the arts, the miracle of ev’ry
birth.
Life’s music and its poetry surround and bless us
through our days.
For these we sing in harmony, together giving
thanks and praise.