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    Many Names
    Many Names
    Many Names
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    Many Names

    By Yvonne Aburrow

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    A book of prayers, meditations and chalice lightings for use in Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist churches, Unitarian Earth Spirit groups, and Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans groups. These prayers reflect diverse understandings of the Divine, including Taoist, Pagan, pantheist, Neo-Platonic, and Unitarian perspectives. There are also prayers and chalice lightings on different themes and for different seasonal festivals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMay 25, 2016
    ISBN9781326665890
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      Book preview

      Many Names - Yvonne Aburrow

      Many Names

      Many Names

      A book of prayers, meditations and chalice lightings

      by Yvonne Aburrow

      birdberry-logo-notext Birdberry Books

      Oxford

      Contents

      Introduction

      Prayers to the source

      Mother Goddess

      Mother Spirit

      Prayer of Yeshua

      A prayer inspired by the Tao Te Ching

      Source of all beauty

      Source of all life and love

      A communion prayer

      This day

      From the rising of the sun

      Prayer for liberation

      Prayers of life experience

      Sunshine after rain

      Sleep

      Pain

      Words of inclusive love

      Sometimes we do not hear the call

      My christology

      Grandfather God

      Prayers for the seasons

      Harvest prayer

      Samhain / All Hallows Prayer

      Meditations

      The sacred

      Innovation

      The body

      The Divine

      Love

      Ancestors – a meditation for Samhain / All Souls

      The web of being

      The trees and the forest

      Chalice lightings

      As we light this transitory flame

      We gather here within these walls

      As we light the chalice flame

      The fullness of life’s experiences

      The flame rises from the chalice

      Sharing the radiance

      We see the flame rise up

      It shines everywhere

      Seasonal chalice lightings

      Samhain

      Diwali

      Hanukkah

      Yule

      Christmas

      Eid

      Imbolc / Candlemas

      Spring Equinox

      Palm Sunday

      Holi

      Tenebrae

      Easter

      Beltane

      Midsummer

      Lammas

      Harvest

      Rosh Hashanah

      Introduction

      There are many different types of prayer. Many people think of prayer as asking God to give us things. Most people rightly dismiss this sort of prayer as irrational and unspiritual. It’s well known that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. Many people in the First World War prayed for their loved ones to come back unharmed, but many young men were killed, and I am sure their families prayed just as hard for them to come back as the families of those who returned safely. The First World War (and subsequent genocides such as the Holocaust) ended many people’s faith in a personal God. This lack of a personal God obviously affects what we mean by prayer. When there is no person that we are talking to, prayer becomes a communing with the All.

      At Unitarian Summer School in Great Hucklow, I attended a workshop

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