This year, First Parish is joining together with five other North Shore-area Unitarian Universalist congregations for a joint service in celebration of Easter Sunday. We’re very exciting to have so many different communities coming together to share in this time of renewal and rebirth. Please note that the service on the 4th will start at 10:15am … Continue reading “We’re on Mute: Coming Alive Together”
Our annual pledge campaign officially draws to a close with this service on following a purposeful course through life. Join us to celebrate our shared commitment to this, our spiritual community. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92762405253 Meeting ID: 927 6240 5253 Dial in: 1 929 205 6099 Consecrating Our Gifts Following the service by Zoom, from 2pm … Continue reading “TRUE RECKONING”
Faith in Unitarian Universalism isn’t just an intellectual exercise: it’s “heart” work. Our service this Sunday will feature a sermon by UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, as well as vibrant music, storytelling, and other worship elements that will help us to grow in spirit, in courage, and in generosity. Please join us. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92762405253 Meeting … Continue reading “LOVED INTO BEING”
Guideposts and guides are people who have either pointed us in the right direction (guideposts) or have traveled with us during all or part of our journey while offering help and support along the way. Many times the difference between success and failure in life can be that one person who is willing to offer … Continue reading “Guideposts and Guides”
In a world of great complexity, our attention, our energy, our very lives, are often pulled in many different directions. Because of this, one of our greatest and most important challenges is to remain loyal and steadfast to that which matters most, even in the face of an infinite number of competing interests. In this … Continue reading “Keeping the Faith”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” The common threads of that garment bind us together as a species, as a nation, as a community, and as a congregation. Join us for a … Continue reading “The Garment of Destiny”
This Sunday, we will join many of our sibling congregations as we participate in the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Side With Love national worship service, and hear from a variety of prophetic voices from within our movement. Join us for a service about answering the call of love in the work of justice. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92762405253 … Continue reading “Side With Love Sunday”
For Valentine’s Day, join us for a special service reflecting on love as a theme in music – from church hymns to pop songs. Following the service by Zoom, from 2pm to 5pm, there will be an altar set up in front of the church steps at 225 Cabot Street. All are invited to visit … Continue reading “What We Sing About When We Sing About Love”
The world is imperfect, often unfair, and certainly incomplete. Yet, time and time again, people of vision attempt to create something finer and more hopeful: communities which, even in the midst of struggle and strife, offer new space to dream. Join us for a service celebrating the history and example of prophetic community-building. Zoom Link: … Continue reading “The Space to Dream”
In this service, we will celebrate whimsey and wonder, novelty and nonsense. Come experience resting for an hour in the absurd – and search for the strains of the sacred there, too. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92762405253 Meeting ID: 927 6240 5253 Dial in: 1 929 205 6099
