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Global Chalice Lighting for March 2011

The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists announces the 91 st in its monthlyseries of global chalice lighting readings. Congregations worldwide are invited toparticipate.

All ICUU-affiliated groups have been asked to submit brief chalice lightings for the project.Every month, a reading will be distributed to Unitarian and Universalist congregationsaround the world. We ask each congregation to use the reading for at least one worshipservice in the designated month, identifying it as the Global Chalice Lighting for thatmonth and naming the group which submitted it. Readings will be circulated in English and,where different, in their original language.

It is hoped that the ICUU Global Chalice Lighting Project will enhance the worshipexperience in our congregations and raise awareness of the international dimensions of our

religious movement.

This Global Chalice Lighting is submitted in German and English by the UnitarianUniversalist Forum of Vienna, Austria. It is to be used during March 2011.

Wir leben in einer Zeit der Wissenschaft, wir versuchen angestrengt die Welt umuns herum zu verstehen und so das Rtsel an der Wurzel unserer Existenz zulsen. Jetzt, wo die Menschheit nach den fernsten Sternen greift, sollten wir danicht auch nach etwas greifen, das uns so nahe scheint und doch in unseren

Leben oft ferner ist als der fernste Fleck am Firmament: nach den Herzenunserer Mitmenschen? Die Flamme, die wir nun entznden, soll uns einLeuchtfeuer sein in der Dunkelheit, die uns trennt. Es soll uns nicht nuruntersttzen in der weltweiten Vereinigung der Unitarier und Universalistensondern das wertvolle, wundervolle Band strken, das alle Menschen von jeherverbindet.

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We live in a time of science, we try very hard to understand the world around usand think that by doing so we can solve the miracle at the root of our existence.As humanity reaches out for the farthest stars should we not reach out as wellfor something very near and still in our life often farther than the farthest speckon the firmament: to the heart of our fellow human beings? The flame we arelighting now shall be a beacon in the darkness that separates us. It shall notonly help us in uniting Unitarian-Universalists across the world but strengthenthe treasured, miraculous bond between all people that exists since thebeginning of time.

Andreas Bolhar-Nordenkampf Unitarisch-Universalistisches Forum