Stanford Memorial Church University Public Worship

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1 Stanford Memorial Church University Public Worship 4 June :00 a.m. Multifaith Service OPENING VOLUNTARY Veni, Creator en Taille à 5 Nicolas de Grigny ( ) WELCOME Please stand. The Rev. Professor Jane Shaw Dean for Religious Life HYMN Let Light and Truth Suffuse the Mind p. 7 OPENING WORDS Responses of the people are in bold. This is the day that God has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. PRAYER OF THE DAY May God be with you. And also with you. Let us pray: Breathe in us O Holy Spirit that our thoughts may be holy; Act in us O Holy Spirit that our works, too, may be holy; Draw our hearts to you, O Holy Spirit, that we love but what is holy; Strengthen us O Holy Spirit to defend that which is holy; Guard us then O Holy Spirit that we may learn your holy ways. Amen. Adapted from St. Augustine of Hippo,

2 Please be seated. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Rabbi Patricia Karlin Neumann Senior Associate Dean for Religious Life LITANY Yvan Quinn 17 Julia Sakowitz 19 Hannah Broderick 19 Miguel Samano 19 Callan Showers 19 In the spirit of Religious Encounter, we strive to go...yes, I ll go!...break down the walls we put up in our lives from fear, pain, and hopelessness. Yes, I ll go!...build up people to be better than we are. Yes, I ll go!...lose our self-righteousness and desire to be right, to dive into immersive experiences and have the courage to change our beliefs. Yes, I ll go!...find God inside everyone, inside every moment, inside ourselves. Yes, I ll go!...rediscover a child-like curiosity that allows us to learn from people who come from traditions different and opposed to our own. Yes, I ll go!...grow into mature leaders who will infuse the world with a culture of respectful, open, and inspiring encounters. Yes, I ll go! 2

3 READING Gitanjali Sneha Ayyagari 17 Rabindranath Tagore ANTHEM O Holy Spirit Robert Huw Morgan (b. 1967) REFLECTION Sarah Thomas 19 MUSIC For Good Gawoon Shim 18 from the musical Wicked READING The Way It Is Christina Huber 19 William Stafford HYMN We Would Be One p. 8 REFLECTION Raga Ayyagari 17 READING The Eternal Idea Saamon Legoski 18 Jalāl ad-dīn Muhammad Rūmī ANTHEM God Be in My Head Henry Walford Davies ( ) REFLECTION Thomas Ford 17 THE PEACE The peace of God be with you. And also with you. Please stand. 3

4 HYMN One Human Heart Can Hold p. 10 BENEDICTION You are invited to be seated to enjoy the closing voluntary after the clergy have departed. CLOSING VOLUNTARY Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux Grigny 4

5 READINGS Poems from Rabindranath Tagore s, Gitanjali. 35 Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. 36 This is my prayer to thee, my lord strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love. 69 The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. 5

6 A poem from William Stafford s The Way It Is, There s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time s unfolding. You don t ever let go of the thread. The Eternal Idea, a poem by Jalāl ad-dīn Muhammad Rūmī. Translated by Andrew Harvey in A Year of Rumi. You may seem to be the microcosm; In fact, you are the macrocosm. The branch might seem like the fruit s origin: In fact, the branch exists because of the fruit. Would the gardener have planted the tree at all Without a desire and hope for fruit? That s why the tree is really born from the fruit Even if it seems the fruit is created by the tree. 6

7 Let Light and Truth Suffuse the Mind Let light and truth suffuse the mind and spread throughout the shadowed heart as what we know is redefined through science, scholarship and art. Our founders knew that faith requires the discipline of sturdy thought. They trusted that the spirit s fires burn brightest where the truth is sought. We ve learned the wisest prayer they prayed was that more light would guide their ways for we, like them, have been remade by unexpected, slanted rays. So let the gift of gathered light pervade the ways we learn and know, awaking wonder and delight while knowledge, truth and wisdom grow. Text: Thomas Troeger Tune: Old Hundredth All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net #A

8 We Would Be One (Singing the Living Tradition #318) Page 1 of 2 8

9 We Would Be One (Singing the Living Tradition #318) Page 2 of 2 All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net #A

10 One Human Heart Can Hold 1. One human heart can hold A world too vast to chart. For time and space cannot enfold the reaches of the heart that span our hopes and tears, the breadth and depth and height that separate our faith and fears, the shadows and the light. 2. God, your heart alone can plumb and measure ours. The whole expanse is grasped and known by your discerning powers. You touch the wounds and scars where violence leaves its mark. You see our hopes as bright as stars that shine against the dark. 3. Although we cannot know As we are known by you, the visions of our hearts can grow to see all hearts anew. We dream how each appears in your unbounded sight: a universe of joys and tears, of sorrow and delight. 4. And through our dream we see the life that you intend: to honor the complexity of stranger, foe and friend, to welcome every heart and help each heart recall through worship, music, service, art your heart embraces all. Text: Troeger Tune: Diademata All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net #A

11 UNIVERSITY PUBLIC WORSHIP SERVICE AND PREACHER SCHEDULE Sundays, 10:00 am unless otherwise noted. June 11* The Rev. Professor Jane Shaw June 18 Commencement Day No University Public Worship June 25 Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann July 2* The Rev. Joanne Sanders *Service with Communion 11

12 ANNOUNCEMENTS WE EXTEND OUR GRATITUDE TO our volunteer May Gaspay (Usher) and Daniel Scott Smith (Usher) for donating their time to assist during today s worship service. Those wishing to assist in our worship service as readers, ushers, communion assistants, please vgbrake@stanford.edu. WE THANK THE FELLOWSHIP FOR RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER (FRE) - STUDENTS Raga Ayyagari 17, Sneha Ayyagari 17, Hannah Broderick 19, Thomas Ford 17, Christina Huber 19, Michelle Hull 19, Mansi Jain 19, Saamon Legoski 18, Yvan Quinn 18, Julia Sakowitz 19, Miguel Samano 19, Gawoon Shim 18, Callan Showers 19, and Sarah Thomas 19. The Office for Religious Life offers FRE fellowships to engage students in sustained, meaningful religious encounter with one another. Students commit to brave, empathetic and respectful exploration of difference. The fellows are selected based on their experience and interest in religious, spiritual, and humanist traditions. WE THANK THE MEMORIAL CHURCH CHOIR for donating their time and talent to University Public Worship services throughout the year. OFFERINGS today by cash and check are in support of United Religions Initiative. The purpose of the United Religions Initiative is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. PLEASE NOTE Checks written to Stanford University will be considered gifts to Stanford Memorial Church to support the programs and events in this Church. These gifts will not be formally acknowledged in writing, unless your gift check is $ or greater. Thank you for your thoughtfulness in giving. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FOR YOUR INFORMATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LARGE-PRINT BULLETINS and HEARING-ASSISTANCE RECEIVERS are available for those who need them. Please see an usher to obtain these items. EVENT INFORMATION AND MORE Please visit religiouslife.stanford.edu to learn more about the Office for Religious Life, events, join our weekly newsletter and much more. KZSU REBROADCAST University Public Worship can be heard on the Internet at kzsulive.stanford.edu and on the radio at 90.1 FM every Sunday at 11:30 am. PAST SERMONS can be accessed on Stanford s itunes U. You can listen to single sermons or subscribe to our feed at religiouslife.stanford.edu/sermons 12

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14 Stanford Memorial Church Summer Concert Series Admission is free. All are welcome. Concerts begin at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. ising Girl s Choir & Norwegian Girl s Choir Tuesday, June 27, 2017 Paul Stubbings Guest Organ Recital Wednesday, August 2, 2017 The Choir of St. Paul's Church, Burlingame Monday, August 21,

15 Om Under the Dome Yoga in Memorial Church Tuesday, June 6, 5:30 pm Rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit with yoga instructor Rebecca Snowball in the tranquil ambiance of Memorial Church. Please bring your yoga mat. Admission is free. All are welcome. Fundamentals of Meditation Noon Hour Series for Staff & Faculty Thursday, June 8, 12:00 pm Enjoy introduction to meditation sessions for faculty and staff in Windhover. All sessions will be guided by instructor, Tia Rich. You will experience various ways to meditate. The focus on direct experience will help you to begin and continue meditating. Fundamentals of Meditation Evening Series for Stanford Students Thursday, June 8, 8:00 pm These weekly drop-in sessions are designed to offer students basic meditation skill, to encourage regular meditation practice, to help deepen your ability to selfreflect in meditation, and to offer instructions on how meditation can be useful during stressful moments. 15

16 Dean for Religious Life The Rev. Professor Jane Shaw Senior Associate Dean for Religious Life Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann Associate Dean for Religious Life The Rev. Joanne Sanders Chaplain Affiliate Fr. Xavier Lavagetto, O.P Memorial Church Services Dr. Robert Huw Morgan, University Organist and Director, Memorial Church Choir Melissa Prestinario, Wedding Coordinator Office Staff Carol Velazquez, Administration Manager Diane Abundabar, Rathbun Program Manager Vanessa Gomez Brake, Event Specialist Michael Slack, Operations Coordinator Bahara Emami, Office Assistant