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:17150@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251213T170000 DTSTAMP:20251205T183839Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2025-12-13/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-The Eucharist-O’Connor DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-The Eucharist-O’Connor An explor ation of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different s hort reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years h ave found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate co mmunity of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as t he reading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, with a session only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the convers ation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very w ell this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends .\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat a nd calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come fr om group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday\, December 13th\n\n “I was once\, five or six years ago\, taken by some friends to have dinn er with Mary McCarthy and her husband\, Mr. Broadwater.\n\n“Well\, towar d morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist\, which I\, being the C atholic\, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs. Broadwater said when she was a child and received the host\, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost\, He being the most portable person of the Trinity\; now she thought of it a s a symbol and implied that it was a pretty good one. I then said\, in a v ery shaky voice\, Well\, if it’s a symbol\, to hell with it.\n\n“That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it\, outside of a story\, except that it is the center of existence for me\; all the rest of life is expendable.”\n —Flannery O’Connor\, letter to her friend Better Hester\n\nThere is so mething in us\, as storytellers and as listeners to stories\, that demands the redemptive act\, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.\n—Flannery O’Connor "Some Aspects of the Grote sque in Southern Fiction"\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n J oin this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, pass code 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 73 24\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 9 10 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128\, \,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Fi nd your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom li nk for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and cli ck on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-readin g+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sac red Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is an y reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme importanc e to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or f eel 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:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR