2024-11 Family

Día de los Muertos - Alison Aguilar López Gutierrez McLeod and Rev. Dr. Michael Tino

WorshipNov 3, 2024 - 7:45 pmNov 4, 2024 - 12:45 pm

Prelude

Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
You Are My Friend - Fantasia
The Feeling We Once Had - The Cast of the Wiz feat. Melody Betts and Nichelle Lewis
Count On Me - Tia & Tamara Mowry and Marcus Houston
Theme Video

Gathering Our Community

Welcome Video for Worship
Welcome and Chalice Lighting
Opening Words: El Molcajete de Mi Abuelita, by Julián Jamaica Soto
Opening Music - We Are (Ysaye Barnwell and Carolyn Maillard) - Sweet Honey in the Rock

Centering Ourselves In Community

Inviting Your Sharing of Joys and Sorrows
Music for Joys and Sorrows
Prayer

Honoring the Ancestors

Responsive Reading: They Are With Us Still (Kathleen McTigue)
Calling in the Ancestors
Ancestors Come Into The Room - adrienne maree brown feat. The Bengsons

Sermon

Dia de los Muertos - Alison Aguilar López Gutierrez McLeod

Reflection Questions

How do you understand a connection to ancestors separate from biology?
How do you hope to live on?

Offering

Inviting Your Generosity
Offertory: Remember Me (R. López and K. Anderson-López)- Francisco Ruiz

Going Forth

Benediction and Chalice Extinguishing
Words of Benediction: Gratitude to My Ancestors, by Marta Valentín
Closing Song: Breaths (Birago Diop/Ysaye M. Barnwell) - Sweet Honey in the Rock