Openings and Invocations

Unitarian Universalists use different terms for the words that begin a worship service, including call to worship, invocation, and opening words. These words invite the congregation from their separate lives and to the common place and time of the worship hour.

(In Unitarian Universalist worship if there are Opening Words there is generally not an Invocation, and vice versa.)

Search Words for Worship Services

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  • Letting Go (WorshipWeb)
    by Jay Wolin
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Connections, Direct Experience, Generosity, Growth, Hospitality, Identity, Integrity, Letting Go, Unitarian Universalism, Wholeness
  • Life's Sacred Dance (WorshipWeb)
    by Joanne Giannino
    Tagged as: Commitment, Death, Direct Experience, Generations, History, Hope, Humanism
  • Light is Returning (WorshipWeb)
    by Kate McPhee
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Climate Justice, Earth, Earth-Centered, Healing, Home, Nature, Vernal Equinox
  • Like the First Hint of Green (WorshipWeb)
    by Jennifer McGlothin
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Beginnings, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Easter, Flower Communion, Growth, Health, Interdependence, Nature, Secular, Spring, Unitarian Universalism, Vernal Equinox
  • Little Flame (WorshipWeb)
    by Kathryn Estey
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Beginnings, Caring, Commitment, Community, Compassion, Growth, Inclusion, Journey, Playfulness
  • Living with Pride (WorshipWeb)
    by Lori Gorgas Hlaban
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Anti-Oppression, Coming Out, Direct Experience, Generations, History, Humanism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, National Coming Out Day, Pride Sunday, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular
  • Love and Justice (WorshipWeb)
    by Cynthia Landrum
    Tagged as: Caring, Challenge, Commitment, Community, Compassion, Courage, Faith, Justice, Love, Tradition
  • Love Can Transform the World (WorshipWeb)
    by Maureen Killoran
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Body, Challenge, Community, Direct Experience, Faith, Generosity, Healing, Love, Mourning, Power, Spirituality, Transformation, Valentine's Day, WorshipWeb
  • Making Aspirations Real (WorshipWeb)
    by Ben Soule
    Tagged as: Commitment, Connections, Faith, Hope, Interdependence, Justice, Living Our Faith, Love, Peace, Sacred, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
  • Many of the Past Generation and Many of Today... (WorshipWeb)
    by Sophia Lyon Fahs
    Tagged as: Awe, Beginnings, Children, Courage, Empathy, Generations, Journey, Mystery, Progress