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When you arrive at today’s service, think about a song in either Singing the Living Tradition (the gray hymnal) or Singing the Journey (the teal hymnal) that you’d love us all to sing, and add it to the flip chart or Zoom chat. We’ll sing as many as we can fit into the service, which … Continue reading Now Let Us Sing, Sing, Sing, Sing!
UUCPA is a community of learners. We seek always to discover more–to understand the world and ourselves more deeply–to learn from each other, from books, from the accumulated knowledge of centuries of thinkers and scientists and activists–to become wiser. Almost all of the children, and a majority of the adults, at UUCPA have engaged in … Continue reading Celebrating Our Learning Community
Bring a flower, or a bunch! In this tradition, practiced by Unitarian Universalists for 101 years, we celebrate the beautiful variety among us and gratefully receive a flower that someone else has brought. We will look closely at the flowers as a mindfulness practice we engage in together. Folks attending online, the closer you can … Continue reading Look Closely: Flower Sunday
How appropriate that Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility coincide this year! The trans and nonbinary people shown with their families in the photo-text exhibit that opens today at UUCPA exemplify the joyful rebirth one can experience by being authentically oneself with others. All of us, no matter what our gender identity, are called … Continue reading New Life, Fuller Life, Authentic Life
Our annual intergenerational service in which we ask and answer questions such as: What is the origin of the flaming chalice symbol? What does the chalice mean to you? What happens when we put all those meanings together into one community? Why do we have this service at this time of year? Bring the spark … Continue reading Chalice Sunday
An intergenerational service celebrating the life and message of Martin Luther King, Jr., and how his ministry continues on through folks who are fearless in the face of oppression and aggression. Our minister of religious education, Cat Boyle, leads us in a liberating service for this MLK Day weekend. Join us for continued fellowship after … Continue reading Brick by Brick: Chanting Down Babylon
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. Peter Farriday & Cat Boyle Special music: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe and friends Follow along in the order of service, bit.ly/uucpa_xmas_oos_20231224 Join the service via … Continue reading Christmas Eve Candlelight Services
In this intergenerational service, we rejoice in the everyday miracles of the season, marking the winter solstice, telling the story of Hanukah, and inviting all who wish to play a part to help make the story of Jesus’s birth come to life. Our annual tradition for the Sunday before Christmas. Worship Leaders: Rev. Cat Boyle Follow … Continue reading No-Rehearsal Christmas Pageant
Yeshe Tsogyal (c. 757 or 777 – 817 CE) attained enlightenment in her lifetime and is considered the Mother of Tibetan Buddhism. When she herself asked about “her inferior female body” (a common theme in the biographies of female spiritual practitioners), her teacher advised Yeshe Tsogyal that far from being a hindrance to enlightenment, as … Continue reading Buddhism Beyond the Binary
Exactly 100 years ago, on June 4, 1923, the minister of the Unitarian Church in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Rev. Norbert Čapek, introduced the Flower Celebration. He asked the people of the congregation to bring flowers, and after they gathered them into one beautiful display and blessed them, each took away a different flower than the … Continue reading Intergenerational Flower Communion