All in Good Faith

Author(s): Jean Potter, Marcus Braybrooke
Publisher: World Congress of Faiths

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THE MINGLING OF SACRED WATERS AND FLOWERS
All in Good Faith
The congregation is seated. Children's choirs from the Golden Gate International Children's Choir Festival will carry in procession waters and flowers from sacred sites around the world. They will be mingled in a bowl before the altar as the children sing.
THE BLUE-GREEN HILLS OF EARTH (from Missa Gaia)
READING
MUSIC
Kim Oler, arr. Nick Page.
For the earth forever turning, for the skies, for every sea; for our lives, for all we cherish, sing we our joyful song of peace.
For the mountains, hills and pastures in their silent majesty; for the stars, for all the heavens, sing we our joyful song of peace.
For the sun, for rain and thunder, for the seasons' harmony; for our lives, for all creation, sing we our joyful praise to Thee.
For the world we raise our voices, for the home that gives us birth; in our joy we sing returning home to our blue-green hills of earth
From The Parliament of World Religions' Declaration Towards a Global Ethic
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Words by Kim Oler
A BAHA'I PRAYER FOR UNITY (Please Stand)
Sung in Persian to traditional chant by Zoreh Samadani.
O my God! O my God! Verily, I invoke thee and supplicate before thy threshold, asking thee that all thy mercies may descend upon these souls. Specialize them for thy favor and thy
truth
'Abdu'l-Baha
O Lord! Unite and bind together the hearts, join in accord all the souls, and exhilarate the spirits through the signs of thy sanctity and oneness. O Lord! Make these faces radiant through the light of thy oneness. Strengthen the loins of thy servants in the service of thy kingdom.
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O Lord, thou possessor of infinite mercy! O Lord of forgiveness and pardon! Forgive our sins, pardon our shortcomings, and cause us to turn to the kingdom of thy clemency, invoking the kingdom of might and power, humble at thy shrine and submissive before the glory of thine evidences.
O Lord God! Make us as waves of the sea, as flowers of the garden, united, agreed through the bounties of thy love. O Lord! Dilate the breasts through the signs of thy oneness, and make all mankind as stars shining from the same height of glory, as perfect fruits growing upon thy tree of life.
Verily, thou art the Almighty, the Self-Subsistent, the Giver, the Forgiving, the Pardoner, the Omniscient, the One Creator.