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“Listen to the Longing” Rev. Chris November 2, 2025 at 2:00:00 PM Sanctuary Gathering Music Ian Garvie, piano Welcome and Announcements Board Member Prelude “Galileo,” by the Indigo Girls; Jim Wooster and Paul Judge, voice and guitar Chalice Lighting Life is a gift, for which we are grateful. We gather in community to celebrate the glories and the mysteries of this great gift. Gathering Hymn #83 , “Winds Be Still” Story Elliott Barnhill Anthem ” Holding On To My Joy,” words by John McAlpin; music by Jim Wooster Reflection Richard Waring Words of Offering This month we share the plate with Grow Clinic at Boston Medical Center Offertory “Pacing the Cage,” by Bruce Cockburn Doxology From all that dwell below the skies; Let words of love and peace arise; Let joyful songs of praise be sung; Through every land by every tongue. Amen. Candles of Celebration and Concern Community Care Team Prayer Rev. Chris Hymn #391 , “Voice Still and Small” Sermon “Listen to the Longing,” Rev. Chris Closing Song #199 , “Precious Lord” Extinguishing the Flame Rev. Chris Postlude “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” by U2

“Listen to the Longing” Rev. Chris November 2, 2025 at 4:00:00 PM Sanctuary Gathering Music Welcome and Announcements Board Member Prelude “Prelude Op. 87 No. 1, in C major” by Shostakovich; Casey Hannan, piano Chalice Lighting Life is a gift, for which we are grateful. We gather in community to celebrate the glories and the mysteries of this great gift. Gathering Hymn #209 , “O Come You Longing Thirsty Souls” Story Elliott Barnhill Anthem “Hush, Somebody’s Calling My Name,” a traditional spiritual arr. by Brazeal W. Dennard Reflection Richard Waring Words of Offering This month we share the plate with Grow Clinic at Boston Medical Center Offertory “Sea Fever,” words by John Masefield, music by John Ireland; Chuck Claus, baritone Doxology From all that dwell below the skies; Let words of love and peace arise; Let joyful songs of praise be sung; Through every land by every tongue. Amen. Candles of Celebration and Concern Community Care Team Prayer Rev. Chris Hymn #391 , “Voice Still and Small” Sermon “Listen to the Longing,” Rev. Chris Closing Song #199 , “Precious Lord” Extinguishing the Flame Rev. Chris Postlude “ Sonata K 209,” by Scarlatti; Casey Hannan, piano

History Group October 2, 2025 at 11:30:00 PM Online

“We Remember Them” October 26, 2025 at 1:00:00 PM Sanctuary Gathering Music - "When I'm Gone" by Phil Ochs Welcome and Announcements – Board Member Prelude - "I Remember Everything" John Prine and Pat McLaughlin Chalice Lighting Raeann Mason Life is a gift, for which we are grateful. We gather in community to celebrate The glories and the mysteries of this great gift. Gathering Song - #1002 , “Comfort Me” Opening Words and Story – Chris Anthem : "Skating Across Time" by Bayard Klimasmith Sharing - Janet Amphlett Hymn "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" by the Carter Family VERSE 1 I was standing by my window On a cold and cloudy day When I saw the hearse come rolling For to carry my mother away. CHORUS Will the circle be unbroken By and by Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting In the sky Lord, in the sky. VERSE 2 Lord, I told that undertaker undertaker please drive slow For that body you are haulin' Lord, I hate to see her go. VERSE 3 Lord I followed close behind her Tried to hold up and be brave But I could not hide my sorrow When they laid her in the grave VERSE 4 Well, I went back home, my home was lonely For my mother she was gone All my brothers, sisters cryin' What a home, so sad and alone Sharing — Bayard Klimasmith Creating the Altar - “Keep me in your Heart for Awhile” by Warren Zevon Prayer – Chris Musical Response - Hymn 108: “My Life Flows On in Endless Song” Words of Offering – Offertory - "If We Were Vampires" by Jason Isbell Doxology – From all that dwells below the skies Let words of love and peace arise Let joyful songs of praise be sung Through every land by every tongue Amen Homily – “We Remember Them” Rev. Chris Closing Song - Hymn "I'll Fly Away" by Albert Bromley VERSE 1 Some glad morning when this life is over, I’ll fly away To a home on God’s celestial shore, I’ll fly away CHORUS: I’ll fly away, o Glory, I’ll fly away (In the morning) When I die, Hallelujah, bye and bye, I’ll fly away VERSE 2 When the shadows of this life are gone, I’ll fly away Like a bird from prison bars has flown, I’ll fly away VERSE 3 Oh, how glad and happy when we meet, I’ll fly away No more cold iron shackles on my feet, I’ll fly away VERSE 4 Just a few more weary days and then, I’ll fly away To a land where joy shall never end, I’ll fly away Extinguishing the Flame – Rev. Chris Postlude - "Lonestar" Lee Alexander

“When The Great Plates Slip” October 19, 2025 at 3:00:00 PM Sanctuary Gathering Music Welcome and Announcements – Board Member Prelude - Introduction from “Organ Sonata in A Major,” by Mendelssohn Chalice Lighting – Life is a gift, for which we are grateful. We gather in community to celebrate The glories and the mysteries of this great gift. Gathering Hymn- # 134, “Our World Is One World” Story – Rev. Martha Anthem — “Come Down O Love Divine,” by R. Vaughan Williams; Senior Choir Reflection — Margaret Eagle Words of Offering – Margaret Eagle Offertory - “Love Knocks and Waits for Us to Hear,” by Damon; Senior Choir Doxology – From all that dwell below the skies; Let words of love and peace arise; Let joyful songs of praise be sung; Through every land by every tongue. Amen. Candles of Celebration and Concern – Community Care Team Prayer – Rev. Chris Hymn - #127 , “Can I See Another’s Woe” Sermon – “When The Great Plates Slip” Rev. Chris Closing Song - #129 , “Let Love Continue Long Extinguishing the Flame – Rev. Chris Postlude - ” Fugue in C major,” by Buxtehude; Casey Hannan, organ

“The Challenge of Growing Up” Ian Garvie November 16, 2025 at 4:00:00 PM Sanctuary Gathering Music - Casey Hannan, piano Welcome and Announcements Board Member Prelude “Becoming a Man,” from 13 , by Jason Robert Brown - George Forsythe Jones Chalice Lighting - Maddie Busch Life is a gift, for which we are grateful. We gather in community to celebrate The glories and the mysteries of this great gift. Gathering Hymn #1021 , Lean on Me Reading An excerpt from “Pippi in the South Seas,” by Astrid Lindgren; read by Michael Griffin Song “Opportunity,” by Jason Robert Brown, new lyrics by Ian Garvie; Junior Choir Reflection - Rev. Chris Jablonski Anthem - “How Did the Rose,” by Joan Szymko, poem by Hafiz; Senior Choir Words of Offering - Rev. Chris Jablonski Offertory “The Lamest Place in the World,” by Jason Robert Brown - Maddie Busch Doxology From all that dwell below the skies; Let words of love and peace arise; Let joyful songs of praise be sung; Through every land by every tongue. Amen. Reflection Rev. Martha Durkee-Neuman Hymn #409 , Sleep, my Child Candles of Celebration and Concern Community Care Team Prayer Rev. Chris Jablonski Song “Tell Her,” by Jason Robert Brown; lyrics adapted by Ian Garvie - Junior Choir Reflection Ian Garvie Closing Hymn #1019 , Everything Possible Extinguishing the Flame Postlude “A Little More Homework,” by Jason Robert Brown - George Forsythe Jones and Maddie Busch

Drop In Meditation September 24, 2025 at 2:45:00 PM Library

Welcome Blanket Craft Circle September 21, 2025 at 5:00:00 PM Library Chat with Laura C. Sept and Dec at FCB October and November at bethel. poster with all four locations something like what’s below.

Second Friday Concert: Chris Smither October 10, 2025 at 11:30:00 PM Parish Hall ON SALE NOW Price: $35.00 In light of Richard Shindell’s last-minute postponement, we are excited to announce, and deeply grateful, that Chris Smither will now headline this concert. ABOUT CHRIS: As noted by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, MOJO, NPR , and others, in the decades of travels to All About the Bones , Chris Smither has gone from up-and-comer to journeyman to veteran to icon, and yet the whole time his path has more closely resembled Joseph Campbell’s “Hero with a Thousand Faces”- an unblinking, fearless trek into the depths of struggle and revelation, and a return back to the land of the living, to share the hard-won treasures found along the way. His restlessness is long gone, and his eyes are fixed “where the moonlight falls on some never-to-be-seen horizon” (“Still Believe in You”). The light given off from his music casts our own lives into a sublime and welcome clarity. The sound and imagery of the 20th release by Chris Smither, All About the Bones , (release date: May 3, 2024 on Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert, distributed by Redeye) is as elemental as the inky black shadows cast by a shockingly bright moon. The listener is welcomed into some gothic mansion on an imaginary New Orleans street, and there in the lamplit parlor confronts the band, a minimalist skeleton crew: Smither’s inimitable propulsive guitar and rumbling baritone are joined seamlessly to producer David Goodrich’s carpetbag of instruments, Zak Trojano’s rock-steady, primal drumming, BettySoo’s diaphanous harmony vocals, and the flat, mournful flood of Jazz legend Chris Cheek’s saxophone. Recorded at Sonelab Studios in Easthampton MA by Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., the Hold Steady) All About the Bones has a feel that is somehow baroque and austere at once. Smither and his longtime producer David Goodrich have been refining their musical conversation for decades, both in the studio and onstage, and by now, their bond verges on the telepathic. Goodrich plays on nearly every track. His sound is by now so translucent that it seems to function as a swath of silence, allowing the songs to burn like ciphers in the crackling air. And oh, the songs on All About the Bones . Chris Smither, after six decades of sharpening his knife as a songwriter, can at this point open damn near anything with a flick of his wrist. God and the Devil are opened here. Mortality is too. Politics, consciousness, renewal, family, vulnerability, surrender… Smither has sat with these topics like so many Zen koans, for so long, that every line is a pearl. The title track, “All About the Bones,” kicks the record off with “Consider your high station/ think about your fame. All of your creation depended on your frame.” Irony, wit, the double meaning of “depended”… each verse is a master class in songwriting. Yet the stark, elemental sage always has a twinkle in his eye, a light touch at your elbow as he guides you along. From the wickedly funny defense of the Adversary in “If Not for the Devil” to the unsentimental open-heartedness of “Still Believe in You,” he is as human as we all long to be. The disjointed imagery of “In the Bardo” and the dystopian mirror of “Close the Deal” find Smither unflinchingly staring down the mortality of both individuals and republics, and yet he is at peace, among loved ones in his cover of Eliza Gilkyson’s “Calm Before the Storm,” and turning his gaze to the future in “Completion”. He sends us on our merry way, startled, dazzled, unsettled and then comforted, with Tom Petty’s “Time to Move On.” https://smither.com/

Community Choir Rehearsal October 23, 2025 at 10:30:00 PM Parish Hall

Garden Group October 2, 2025 at 8:00:00 PM Offsite

Writing Memoir Workshop February 15, 2026 at 9:00:00 PM Online