MUUS Solstice Service

Join Rev. Tony for an all-ages Winter Solstice service at 6 pm, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. We will be outside on the edge of the church green at United Church of Christ Southbury, 283 Main St. N in Southbury.  Dress for the weather and feel free to bring blankets and camp chairs.   If it's too cold or too windy we will be in the Social Hall. There will be participatory singing, games, and joys and concerns, as well as readings and stories.  If you want to prepare to participate, the participation parts are listed below, and you can check out the links to listen to and learn the songs:

At the end of the POEM “The Shortest Day” Rev. Tony will shout “Welcome Yule!” your part is to shout back: WELCOME YULE!

Here are links for songs we are planning to sing:

“Rise Up O Flame”: Video of a song leader teaching, then an RE group singing it.  https://youtu.be/RohoIqPXx9Y and https://youtu.be/QyxpoqkN1R8  

The lyrics are:  Rise up, O flame, by thy light glowing. Show to us beauty, wisdom, and joy!

Winter by John Krumm: https://constellationpress.com/constellation-rounds/winter/   lyrics and audio of a song leader teaching the song as well as a group performing the song. 

Words: When the winter comes, we gather, to dance and sing together. When the winter comes, we gather, to dance our cares away.

[clap] Everybody clap hands. [clap] [clap] Everybody sing now. [clap] Sing a song of gladness. [clap] [clap] Sing a song of joy.

Winter [clap], cold winter, blows hard against the windowpane; dance round[clap] the fire, ’til springtime comes again.

“Where is the Light” by Peter Mayer: https://youtu.be/l5ZFSbOOzgk . Video of the song with lyrics. Your parts are the group chorus lines of “Where is the light?” 

Here are the words to “Deck the Halls” click here: https://farfringe.com/stlt235-deck-the-hall-with-boughs-of-holly/

The Reverend Tony Lorenzen (he/him/his)

Minister, The Mattatuck Unitarian Universalist Society