Pagan practice holds that the veil between the world of the living and the dead grow thin at this time of year. Christian practice invites us to honor those who have departed this life. Let us commemorate today those we have lost this year, those who remain in our hearts and minds, in our memories … Continue reading Halloween/All Souls Service
The place where we worship is the ancestral land of many bands of Dakota People, land never ceded and then lost when treaties were violated and physical violence ensued, land where Dakota people continue to live and work and love. It is also the land of several generations of European-Americans, of some of you whose … Continue reading Relationship with a Difficult Past: An Indigenous Peoples’ Day Service
Though we cannot yet worship in each other’s embodied presence, fortunately, technology enables us to safely gather. Today, we celebrate our continuation as a multi-faceted congregation—long timers and newcomers, those comfortable online and those struggling. How does it feel, in the body and in the spirit? What do we celebrate, and what do we mourn? … Continue reading Ingathering/Water Communion: Relationship with Our Building and Each Other
Today, we celebrate new ways to understand the intrinsic multiplicity and diversity of the universe, the world, and our community. “Neurodiversity refers to variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions” and challenges the view that some ways are pathological conditions. We explore today the possibilities inherent in different … Continue reading Neurodiversity is a Way of Being
Please join a virtual Celebration of Life to honor David Winslow Allan on Sunday, September 19 at 1:00 pm. David passed away on June 29, 2021. David’s remains, along with those of his beloved wife Nancy who passed in 2018, will be interred in a private ceremony following the service. Memorial gifts may be directed … Continue reading David Allan Celebration of Life
Please join a virtual Celebration of Life to honor Jean Lovett on Saturday, September 18 at 11:00 am. Jean passed away and was buried in her family plot in the Vernon Center Cemetery on Thursday August 5, 2021. Jean’s wife Diane Dobitz is so grateful for the outpouring of love she has been shown. Memorial … Continue reading Jean Lovett Celebration of Life
The pandemic is changing us and the way we relate to our surroundings. Our Soul Matters spiritual practices this month encourage us to consider the ordinary things around us and how they have become precious and imbued with new meaning. What objects or vistas help you to survive the pandemic? Please send photos to treselia.greiner@gmail.com … Continue reading What Makes Surviving the Pandemic Possible?
With anticipation, we imagine gathering our in-person again. What will be familiar? What will be new? How will navigate familiar and new relationships, in ways that are compassionate, inclusive, and open to creative possibility? The Zoom information for Sunday Worship is below: UUFM Sunday Morning Virtual Worship 10:30 am Followed by Virtual Coffee Hour … Continue reading Everything Old is New Again – UU Summer Services Collaborative
Folks often proclaim they are “spiritual, not religious.” What does it look and feel like to attend to the development of our spirits in the company of other fellow travels and seekers? Why gather as a people rather than practice alone? The Zoom information for Sunday Worship is below: UUFM Sunday Morning Virtual Worship … Continue reading Gathered Here in the Mystery of the Hour – UU Summer Services Collaborative – Rev. Rita Capezzi, UUFM
The very first Flower Communion was celebrated on June 4, 1923, which is why we celebrate it on the first Sunday of June each year. This is a uniquely Unitarian ritual meaningful for many Unitarian Universalist congregations. All across the country, the continent, and the world, our religious companions also celebrate today the beauty of … Continue reading Flower Communion
