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Saturday, September 26, 2009
4:00 p.m.

Opening Procession
Tim Brumfeld, organ
Paul Winter, soprano saxophone
Omega Dancers and Ralph Lee and the Mettawee River Company

Welcome
The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski
Dean, Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Reflections
Mary Evelyn Tucker The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale;
The American Teilhard Association

Reading
Excerpt from The Human Phenomenon by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Read by Reverend Franklin Vilas
The American Teilhard Association

Music
“Stained Glass Morning”
Music by Eugene Friesen
Performed by Bellbirds, Uirapuru (musician wren of the Amazon), Eugene Friesen, cello

A Moment of Grace
Thomas Berry
From the Thomas Berry interviews by Marty Ostrow, Fine Cut Productions

Reflections
John A. Grim The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale;
The American Teilhard Association

Music
Lauda
Words by Franciscan Friar, Jacopone da Todi (1236-1306)
Music by Sr. Kathleen Deignan, CND
Sung by Sr. Kathleen Deignan, CND
Iona College

Reading:
Excerpt from Thomas Berry’s “New Story”
Read by Catherine de Bary Sleight
The American Teilhard Association

Music
Adoro te Devote
Traditional Gregorian chant, words by St. Thomas Aquinas c. 1260
Translation by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Tim Brumfeld, organ
Sung by Sr. Kathleen Deignan, CND

Tribute
“Kin to an Extended Family Beyond All Counting”
Wm. Theodore de Bary, Columbia University

Music
Canyon Chaconne
Music by Paul Winter and Paul Halley
Performed by Paul Winter, soprano saxophone
Tim Brumfeld, organ

Poem
“Oh Watchman, What of the Night?” by Brian Edward Brown
Read by Brian Edward Brown, Iona College

Music
“To My Old Brown Earth”
Performed by Pete Seeger and chorus from the album Pete, Living Music Records

Reflections
Sr. Miriam MacGillis, OP Genesis Farm

Music
“Good Wish”
Music by Jan Harmon
Words from the Carmina Gaedelica
Performed by Gordon Bok from the album Solstice Gems, Living Music Records

Reflections
Brian Swimme
California Institute of Integral Studies

Closing Hymn
“For the Beauty of the Earth”
Paul Winter, soprano saxophone
Eugene Friesen, cello
Tim Brumfeld, organ