We come to this time and this place:

To rediscover the wondrous gift of free religious community;

To renew the faith in the holiness, goodness, and beauty of life;

To reaffirm the way of the open mind and full heart;

To rekindle the flame of memory and hope; and

To rekindle the vision of an earth made fair, with all her people one.

[#436, Singing the Living Tradition]