Flower Ritual on June 9 Sunday, June 9 will be the last Sunday of our Program Year. As in past years, we will conclude with a flower ritual (some call it Flower Communion), introduced to Unitarian worship by Norbert Čapek of Czechoslovakia in June, 1923. Čapek built a...
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Sunday Quaker-style Meeting (newsletter)
Join us for our annual Quaker-style worship service on Sunday, May 26, 2019. The service will take place in the Commons, and will be led by Pamela Strauss. Today’s service is in the spirit of Quaker services, but is not intended to be an exact replica. Elements of...
On Truth and Lies, Rev. Richard Fewkes (newsletter)
Join us as we welcome Rev. Richard Fewkes to our pulpit for his sermon titled "On Truth and Lies in Our Public and Private Lives". Dick Fewkes has served three churches in the Ballou Channing District: (1) First UU Society in Middleboro (1964-69), (2) is the Minister...
Sunday Service: “Through a Glass, Darkly” (newsletter)
Service led by FPS members Ashley and Jerry Taylor. A reflection on faith, mothers, shelves, and door-bell ditching. Ashley and Jerry Taylor's greatest accomplishment has been making four real humans, whom they love inordinately. They grew up in Utah and Idaho,...
“The Grace Machine”, Mr. Kurt Leland (newsletter)
Join us on Sunday, May 5 when we welcome Mr. Kurt Leland to our pulpit. Mr. Leland writes of his sermon: Grace is sometimes defined as "being right with God." But what does that mean? What if grace was a force pervading the entire universe, a gentle but persistent...
April 28: Music Sunday Bluegrass Mass with Southern Rail
Annual Music Sunday with guest musicians Southern Rail. Sunday April 28. An offering of "The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass" by Carol Barnett. This is an amazing work that beautifully combines traditional choral writing and bluegrass music. Music will include First...
April 28: Music Sunday Bluegrass Mass with Southern Rail (clone)
Annual Music Sunday with guest musicians Southern Rail. Sunday April 28. Invite your friends and family! All are very welcome. An offering of "The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass" by Carol Barnett. This is an amazing work that beautifully combines traditional choral...
Easter Sunday
Rev. Katie Lee Crane. What better way to celebrate Easter than to celebrate life! Our worship service will begin with the dedication of Audrey Orcheski, daughter of Ben Orcheski and Mary McLaughlin and granddaughter of longtime FPS member, Leslie Bryant. Noting the...
Sunday Service Mr. Jan Hardenbergh
Mr. Jan Hardenbergh speaking on "How First Parish Became Unitarian". In 1959, our minister Carl Scovel wrote a very well researched sermon about how and why First Parish became Unitarian, including the story of locking our minister out of the service in 1837. This...
It Might Have Been Otherwise: Spiritual Gratitude (newsletter)
Rev. Edwin Lynn Rev. Lynn will reflect in his sermon on a personal near death experience, after which he asks "what did I learn?" Edwin Lynn is the Minister Emeritus of the Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church in Danvers MA , where he served for 33 years. Rev....