Narrator 2: Outside in the cold, bleak weather, the city clocks had only just struck three in the afternoon, but it was quite dark already. Narrator 1: Once upon a time, of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve day, old Ebenezer Scrooge sat busy in his money counting house. Leader 1: Let’s see what Dickens said happened to Scrooge one fateful Christmas, let’s start our Christmas Eve play! To him it was the most important thing in life – more important than family, friends, the people who worked for him or people in general.
Scrooge loved money above all other things. Leader 2: It's about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge. Leader 1: In 1843, shortly after visiting Unitarians here in the United States, and shortly after joining a Unitarian church in his country, England, Charles Dickens wrote the beloved story called, “A Christmas Carol.” We light our chalice tonight for all our fellow passengers in this life, that this holiday may bring lightness where there is heaviness, joy where there is sorrow. We light our chalice with his words:Īs if they really were fellow passengers. *Gathering Song #253, "O Come, All Ye Faithful"Ĭhalice Lighting - During our service, we'll hear a classic story written by the great Unitarian writer Charles Dickens. Leader 1: We invite you now to join us in our opening words (#616, Singing the Living Tradition) by the great Unitarian Universalist Religious Educator Sophia Lyon Fahs. Leader 2: In honor of that birth, tonight we tell the story of a man whose heart was changed toward goodness in the course of one extraordinary night. Leader 1: This is a special night – Christmas Eve, the night before we celebrate the birth of a Jewish leader whose life and words have changed the minds and hearts of many to the side of goodness, generosity and caring.
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