Gathering for Sunday services in person and online, 10:15 am.
One of our affiliated community ministers, the Rev. Stefanie Etzbach-Dale, speaks to us about the spiritual practice of attentiveness to the present moment, in all its complexity. Special music: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe, piano
The order of service is here.
In a faraway land, almost 2,500 years before the United States was established, the prophet Jeremiah wept and admonished: “They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” The myth of white supremacy is a mortal wound to our country. It has been bandaged and salved, but never treated like the danger it is. Perhaps the one hopeful aspect of this terrible week can be that we will at last recognize the nature of this wound–the correct diagnosis being crucial for healing, as any doctor knows. As a congregation, as Unitarian Universalists, we are called to be such healers.
Special music: Aaron Lington, saxophone, and Victoria Lington, piano; Julia Bullock, soprano, and Christian Rief, piano
The order of service is here.
Not this one, but previous ones. Plague and flu, tuberculosis and smallpox: each has challenged us, shown us who we were and could become, and offered us some lessons that could help us today. Let us redeem this difficult time by emerging from it with more compassion and self-understanding.
Special Music: Eric Leong, violin
The order of service is here.
Service for 100,000
Wednesday, May 27, 6 p.m.
On Zoom
Call (650) 494-0541 for the password
The order of service is here.
Today’s service invites us into the traditions of contemplative prayer, centering, silence, and music from the Taizé community. They are all meant to help us tap into our first source, “Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life.” Come drink deeply from the source.
Order of Service: https://bit.ly/uucpa_oos_20200510
We’re mostly associated with liberal causes, not just because we are religiously liberal. Religious liberalism is a stance that affirms personal freedom to seek spiritual truth, and places trust in humanity’s power to discern rightly, via reason and other gifts, and one need not be politically liberal to be religiously liberal; but we tend to be both. However, many values that have long been associated with political and social conservatism in this country are ones to which we should, in your minister’s humble opinion, adhere. Special Music: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe, piano
Order of Service: https://bit.ly/uucpa_oos_20200503
The text from which today’s service draws inspires us with the vision of a community where everyone shares what they have, gladly and generously. Reverend Randle (Rick) Mixon, has been pastor of First Baptist Church, Palo Alto, for the past 14 years and is adjunct faculty in pastoral care at the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley.
Special music: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe, piano
50th Anniversary of the first Earth Day.
Also today, Violet Saena will speak in both services about Acterra, and the entire offering collection will be donated to them.
Order of Service bit.ly/uucpa_oos_20200419
Celebrate Easter with UUCPA from the comfort of your home.
Special Music: Liz Russ, soprano
Order of Service bit.ly/uucpa_oos_20200412a
Order of service: bit.ly/uucpa_oos_20200405
If someone asked you to suggest three symbols that are important to you, what three would you name? They might be visual images, or they might take some other form, such as a melody or an object. Symbols have extraordinary power, and today we’ll use them to create a sacred space in our homes.
Special music: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe, piano