{"id":134784,"date":"2020-12-21T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=134784"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T22:41:19","slug":"2020-christmas-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/2020-christmas-pageant\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Christmas Pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_600\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-134784-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-12-20_Christmas_Pageant.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-12-20_Christmas_Pageant.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-12-20_Christmas_Pageant.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-12-20_Christmas_Pageant.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=134784-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-12-20_Christmas_Pageant.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2020-12-20_Christmas_Pageant.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Rev. Meg Barnhouse<br \/>December 20, 2020<br \/>First UU Church of Austin<br \/>4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756<br \/>www.austinuu.org<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>We raise our voices in story and song to greet Christmas with our annual Christmas Pageant.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Chalice Lighting<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">In this season of anticipation we raise our voices in story and song to greet Christmas. May the lessons of compassion, trust and generosity alight within us and lead us into the new day, renewed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Affirming Our Mission<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Learn more about Beloved Community at this link. &#8211;\u00a0The King Center<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Meditation Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">IN THIS NIGHT<br \/>Dorothee Solle<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In this night the stars left their habitual places<br \/>And kindled wildfire tidings that spread faster than sound.<br \/>In this night the shepherds left their posts<br \/>To shout the new slogans into each other&#8217;s clogged ears.<br \/>In this night the foxes left their warm burrows<br \/>And the lion spoke with deliberation<br \/>&#8220;This is the end revolution.&#8221;<br \/>In this night roses fooled the earth<br \/>And began to bloom in the snow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Unison Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">For so the children come<br \/>And so they have been coming.<br \/>Always in the same way they come<br \/>born of the seed of man and woman.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Each night a child is born is a holy night.<br \/>Fathers and mothers-<br \/>sitting beside their children&#8217;s cribs<br \/>feel glory in the sight of a new life beginning.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Each night a child is born is a holy night:<br \/>A time for singing,<br \/>A time for wondering,<br \/>A time for worshipping,<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; Sophia Lyons Fahs<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Most sermons during the past 20 years are available online through this website. 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Meg BarnhouseDecember 20, 2020First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org We raise our voices in story and song to greet Christmas with our annual Christmas Pageant. \u00a0 \u00a0 Chalice Lighting In this season of anticipation we raise our voices in story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-available","category-meg-barnhouse","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135006,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134784\/revisions\/135006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}