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Our annual, intergenerational Water Communion restores our sense of connection with all beings, as we pour our different waters into one vessel. Please do not think your water has to have come from “someplace special.” It is special because it comes from you and from the planet. Do read this information for 9:30 and 11 … Continue reading Water Communion: Nothing Unconnected
Like many religious traditions, we recognize the early teen years as a time when people grow into being able to decide their spiritual paths for themselves. As today’s leaders have met with each other, their teachers Aarav Billore and the Rev. Dan Harper, and their adult mentors over the past several months, they have clarified … Continue reading Coming of Age Sunday
Today is the Feast of Saint Francis, and thus the traditional day for blessing animals in Roman Catholicism. It’s also World Animal Day–a fine occasion for us homo sapiens to reflect on what it means to share a biosphere with about 8.7 million other animal species. Now that online services make it easy for non-human … Continue reading Blessing of the Animals
We hope you can participate in this annual ritual of ingathering. During the ritual in the August 30 service, waters and words that were shared earlier will be poured into the communal bowl. Please also have a glass of water on hand when the service begins in order to join in another part of the ceremony.
The order of service is here.
The Flower Communion is an annual service in which we each bring a flower, create an altar full of bouquets, and end by each taking away a flower that another person brought. Special Music: Yuri Liberzon, Classical Guitar
The order of service is here.
Come enjoy music, stories, and our annual fire ritual in this mid-winter celebration.
Special Music: Jim Stevens, folk guitar
Today’s entire offering collection will be donated to our February Justice Partner, Stevenson House.
In our annual ritual of ingathering, we bring water from the places of our lives, and pour the many waters into a communal bowl in a ritual honoring variety and unity. Music:Veronika Agranov Dafoe, piano
As young people at UUCPA come of age, they spend several months together in reflection on the questions adult UUs grapple with, meet with mentors from the congregation, and articulate their own beliefs in a credo project. They will share their credos and lead the service today. Music: Yuri Liberzon, classical guitar
For our annual Flower Communion, we each bring a flower (or several), fill vases and baskets with them, and after blessing the flowers and each other, choose a flower that someone else brought and bring it home. (There will be plenty of extras for those who didn’t know or forgot–a living example of abundance!) It’s a beauty-filled, joy-filled intergenerational service built around a ritual that has been practiced in Unitarian Universalist churches since the 1920s. Music: Sarah Kirton, Scandinavian music
In our annual ritual of ingathering, we bring water from the places of our lives, and pour the many waters into a communal bowl in a ritual honoring variety and unity. We welcome the Adult Choir back after their several-week break. Music: Nicholas Dold, piano