Team Expenses
Chalice Extinguishing Words
Touchstones: Vocation
9.1: We extinguish this flame
by Elizabeth Selle Jones
We extinguish this flame but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.
9.2: Carry the Flame
by Rev. Brian Kiely
The Chalice is now extinguished, but its light lives on in the minds and hearts and souls of each one of you. Carry that flame with you as you leave this place and share it with those you know, with those you love, and most especially, with those you have yet to meet.
9.3: A Guiding Light
by Rev. Martha Munson
We extinguish the chalice here
that it might glow gently in our hearts.
May it light your path as you leave this place.
May it guide your way until we are together again.
9.4: Daring Vision
by Rev. Maureen Killoran
We extinguish this chalice flame,
daring to carry forward the vision of this free faith,
that freedom, reason and justice
will one day prevail in this nation and across the earth.
9.5: It Becomes More
by Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern
When we take fire from our chalice,
it does not become less.
It becomes more.
And so we extinguish our chalice,
but we take its light and warmth with us,
multiplying their power by all of our lives,
and sharing it with the world.
