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Or should that be happy rebEARTH Day? We celebrate Earth Day and Easter this week. Just as the joyful resurrection of Easter morning follows the gloom and despair of Good Friday, a new generation of environmentalists are wisely inspiring us to rejoice in the abundance … read more.
Our relationships can thrive if we are guided by four phrases: Please forgive me. I forgive you. Thank you. I love you. This quartet has roots in Hawai’ian culture. Dr. Ira Byock, who worked in palliative care for many years, observed that they were what … read more.
This concludes our series of services exploring the benediction we say together each week. What does it mean to seek to honor all beings? What might a spiritual practice of honoring others look like, and what effect could it have on our daily lives? … read more.
We all agree: in our love as in other things, what we do is as important as what we say. Actions may often be misunderstood, however, as anyone knows whose “love language” differs from a partner’s or friend’s. How can we ourselves ensure that our … read more.
Worship leader: Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern
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If you prefer to attend online, there are two options. One, join the service via Zoom bit.ly/uucpa_service_1015am_v3. To get the passcode, email sundayservice@uucpa.org or call UUCPA’s … read more.
In our annual, intergenerational Chalice Sunday service, we learn about the origin of our flaming chalice, and some of the traditions that are celebrated on this day, such as Candlemas, St. Brigid’s Day, and Imbolc. On this Chalice Sunday, we’ll be asking ourselves: what is … read more.
Newborns are an exception. With everyone else, when we meet them, we arrive in the middle of their story, and they arrive in the middle of ours. We may travel alongside together for a while, learning about each other’s pasts as well as getting to … read more.
How apt that we come to this line of our benediction on the day before the presidential inauguration, because protecting the weak from the strong–whoever those might be at any given moment–is one of the principal purposes of government. Yet the way we achieve that … read more.
We continue to explore our unison benediction line by line. Today’s line, “strengthen the faint-hearted,” returns us to the theme of courage: bolstering each other’s when it grows faint. How do we do that? It might help to consider where courage even comes from.
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We welcome Christmas with stories, carols and special music, and candles. Come sing the familiar songs that are always powerful and experience the magic of candlelight in the darkness.
Worship leaders: Revs. Cat Boyle & Amy Zucker Morgenstern.
Special music: Thomas Shoebotham, cello.
The order of … read more.