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:14213@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240706T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240706T170000 DTSTAMP:20240701T114452Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/sacred-text-reading-group-saturday-3-2024 -07-06/ SUMMARY:Sacred Text Reading Group (Saturday) DESCRIPTION:Sacred Text Reading Group (Saturday) \nA twice-weekly online s acred text reading group. We meet on Saturdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome! Please note that the Zoom ro om now requires a password\, so please drop an e-mail to sacred-text-readi ng+owner@uucpa.org to express interest.\n\n\n \;\n\nWhat do we mean by a sacred text? Any text that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of su preme importance to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to the un iverse\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically ourselve s.\n\nAs Unitarian Universalists\, we find these kinds of meanings everywh ere\, so the text itself might be from a so-called secular source\, or fro m a religious canon\, or something in-between.\n\nThe participants over th e years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affect ionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as impor tant as the text. Our practice usually follows one of these versions of L ectio Divina. The aims of the sessions are educational (learning something about the texts and traditions)\, spiritual/moral (discovering what the t exts ask of us)\, and community-building (getting to know each other bette r).\n\nThe facilitator will post a version of the text in the chat for all to see. Everyone is welcome\, as are your suggestions of future texts. Gr oup members also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\ n\n\nOn Saturday\, July 6\, 2024\, we're talking about this passage from A Secular Age\, by contemporary Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor\, p. 55 5:\nModern enlightened culture is very theory-oriented. We tend to live in our heads\, trusting our disengaged understandings: of experience\, of be auty (we can't really accept that it's telling us anything\, unless about our own feelings)\; even the ethical: we think that the only valid form of ethical self-direction is through rational maxims or understanding. We ca n't accept that part of being good is opening ourselves to certain feeling s\; either the horror at infanticide\, or agape as a gut feeling.\nTo have check-in time\, or if you are new and would like a brief orientation\, ar rive ten minutes early. And all are welcome to stay ten minutes after as w ell\, for more getting-acquainted time.\n\n\nHow to join: First\, e-mail s acred-text-reading+owner@uucpa.org\, since you will need a password. Then: \n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324 \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)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 732 4\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128\,\,910198573 24# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your loc al number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nFor the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03 /Online-Sacred-Texts-Reading-Group.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,Small Groups LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/91019857324 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR