Unitarian Universalists use different terms for the words that begin a worship service, including call to worshipinvocation, 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.)

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  • Come, all you who seek truth, abide in love, and honor peace, enter into this house with thanksgiving; come into these gates with praise. Enter into this sacred space, all you who hunger for righteousness. Through these doors, all footsteps lead to the source of our being, where we shall be filled.
    Opening | By Dorothy Boroush | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: God, Wonder
  • As we gather together this morning, May we learn to recognize and affirm The pieces of possibility -- The bits of good -- we bring. May we encourage rather than control; Love rather than possess; Enable rather than envy....
    Opening | By Bets Wienecke | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Diversity
  • Note: This call to worship was written to be preceded by the first three sentences of "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver (Singing the Living Tradition #490). As we enter into worship, put away the pressures of the world that ask us to perform, to take up masks, to put on brave fronts. Silence the voices...
    Opening | By Erika Hewitt | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Body, Inclusion, Love, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability
  • Amid all the noise in our lives, we take this moment to sit in silence -- to give thanks for another day; to give thanks for all those in our lives who have brought us warmth and love; to give thanks for the gift of life. We know we are on our pilgrimage here but a brief moment in time....
    Opening | By Tim Haley | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Gratitude
  • Come ye into this house of worship! Come in and find peace and rest, inspiration and aspiration, fellowship and love. Come in and find light for your darkness, a friend's touch for your loneliness, and music for your soul. Come in and let your heart sing for all the blessings that are yours this...
    Opening | By Elizabeth A Parish | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Friendship
  • Come, let us worship together. Let us open our minds to the challenge of reason, open our hearts to the healing of love, open our lives to the calling of conscience, open our souls to the comfort of joy....
    Opening | By Lindsay Bates | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Gratitude, Unitarian Universalism
  • Come into this house of worship. Come in bringing all of who you are. Rest and quiet your week-worn spirit, for you are here to touch again eternal springs of hope and renewal. Calm your hurried pace. For this hour let the cares, the fretfulness and worry be set aside. Forgive yourself—you are so...
    Opening | By Carolyn S Owen-Towle | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Caring, Community, Letting Go
  • Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space. Be not tentative. Bring your whole self! Bring the joy that makes your heart sing. Bring your kindness and your compassion. Bring also your sorrow, your pain. Bring your brokenness and your disappointments....
    Opening | By Andrew Pakula | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Sacred
  • Come in. Come into this place which we make holy by our presence. Come in with all your vulnerabilities and strengths, fears and anxieties, loves and hopes. For here you need not hide, nor pretend, nor be anything other than who you are and are called to be....
    Opening | By Rebecca A Edmiston-Lange | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Transformation
  • Spirit of life and love, we have gathered here in search of answers to hard questions. We have come in search of understanding, in search of community. We have come in search of hope and healing.Let this be a place not only of searching, but of discovery. Let this be a place of learning, but of...
    Opening | By Sue Ayer | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Forgiveness, Trust
  • Spirit of life and hope, we turn our minds and hearts again toward thee. Awaken us again to the mysteries that humble us, the realities that orient us, the truths that judge and guide us, the beauty that informs and ravishes us, the love that nurtures us, the fellowship that sustains us, the...
    Opening | By Clarke Dewey Wells | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Mystery, Wholeness
  • Out of the earth Rises light, Rises life, Rises spring. May we join with the miracle that is springtime, and enter into life with lightness and joy. Out of the spirit Rises faith, Rises hope, Rises love. May we join with the miracle that is Easter time, and enter into life with hope and love....
    Opening | By Elizabeth M Strong | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Easter, Transformation
  • One of the old ones stood up into the morning light and spoke to those who had come back to the river: "Now we have come again to this place; it is a good thing. My life apart from you is not as strong. "Yes, I have danced and I have told the stories at my own fire and I have sung to all the six...
    Opening | By Barbara J Pescan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Buddhism, Connections, Friendship
  • May we come into this building hallowed by generations of thoughtful worship. May we come into the company of this congregation, enlightened by reason and moved by concern. May we come with open minds and warm hearts....
    Opening | By Kenneth R Warren | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Service, Transformation, Unitarian Universalism
  • Let there be joy in our coming together this morning. Let there be truth heard in the words we speak and the songs we sing. Let there be help and healing for our disharmony and despair. Let there be silence for the voice within us and beyond us. Let there be joy in our coming together.
    Opening | By Carl Seaburg | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Joy, Redemption, Silence
  • Leave aside the little thoughts that distract you from the depths of your soul, For this is a holy place, and now is a holy time. Join with the others in this room, this community of seekers, and together, let us find our Sabbath.
    Opening | By John Gibb Millspaugh | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Reverence, Sacred, Searching
  • In this quiet hour may our spirits be renewed. In this gathering of friends may we be ready to extend ourselves to those in need, and with trust to receive the hand that is offered. In this community of ideals may we remember the principles that guide us and reflect upon those things that give...
    Opening | By Gary Kowalski | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Service, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism