BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17139@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250927T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250927T170000 DTSTAMP:20250921T032421Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2025-09-27/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Notre Dame-Hugo DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Notre Dame-Hugo An exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different short read ing as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays\, 4-5\, an d on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome to come twic e a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community o f inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as the readin g itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, with a session o nly an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Th ose who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends.\n\n\n\n Facilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and callin g on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role .\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday (9/27 at 4PM)\n\nThere certain ly are few finer architectural pages than this façade [of the Notre Dame of Paris]\, where\, successively and at once\, the three portals hollowed out in an arch\; the broidered and dentated cordon of the eight and twenty royal niches\; the immense central rose window\, flanked by its two later al windows\, like a priest by his deacon and subdeacon\; the frail and lof ty gallery of trefoil arcades\, which supports a heavy platform above its fine\, slender columns\; and lastly\, the two black and massive towers wit h their slate penthouses\, harmonious parts of a magnificent whole\, super posed in five gigantic stories\;—develop themselves before the eye\, in a mass and without confusion\, with their innumerable details of statuary\ , carving\, and sculpture\, joined powerfully to the tranquil grandeur of the whole\; a vast symphony in stone\, so to speak\; the colossal work of one man and one people\, all together one and complex\, like the Iliads an d the Romanceros\, whose sister it is\; prodigious product of the grouping together of all the forces of an epoch\, where\, upon each stone\, one se es the fancy of the workman disciplined by the genius of the artist start forth in a hundred fashions\; a sort of human creation\, in a word\, power ful and fecund as the divine creation of which it seems to have stolen the double character\,—variety\, eternity.\n—Victor Hugo\, Notre Dame of Paris\, translated by Isabel Hapgood\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\nHow to j oin:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/9101985 7324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Me eting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16 699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calen dar and click on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to reso nant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qua lities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the readings we choos e. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of suprem e importance to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to the univer se\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n pe rceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically ourselves.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR