First Parish of Sudbury is welcoming back the well known and well loved bluegrass group, Southern Rail to provide music for their service on the theme “Earth Angels” on Sunday, December 11th at 10:00 am. Southern Rail's performances are high-energy exuberant fun,...
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A Native American Revelry
Worship Service at 10am December 4, 2016 at First Parish of Sudbury Unitarian Universalist. Join us to “wake up the sun” in this month of darkness and dormancy. Led by our Morris Dance teams, we honor our earth-centered traditions by reenacting ancient rituals to...
Finding Hope in a New and Uncertain World
A few weeks ago, Jews around the world read the scriptural passage in Genesis in which Abraham is commanded to leave the comfortable surroundings of his homeland to embark on a momentous journey to an unknown land and to a new reality. Using that story as a jumping...
Shock and Awe
Service led by guest preacher, Mr. Robert Kinslow. Kinslow writes, “When civil rights leader Dr. Rev. William J. Barber II spoke to the Democratic...
Liberation Theology: A Path to a Just and Loving World
First Parish welcomes Rev. Lilia Cuervo to the pulpit this Sunday. A native of Colombia, she was the first Latin American woman ordained in the Unitarian Universalist denomination. She has had a long career working on multiculturalism and anti-racism. Rev. Cuervo...
Ingathering Sunday for people of all ages
This Sunday, September 11th, we start the new church year off with our annual Ingathering Service, featuring our Water Ritual, a joining of our waters. After the service, we will continue with our community potluck (see details below). This service kicks off the new...
A Sunday to relax and get ready for fall
On Labor Day weekend Sunday we will not have a service of any kind at FPS. Enjoy the last hurrah of summer, and we will see you Sunday, Sept. 11 at 10:00am.
Summer Service: Our Annual Poetry Jam
Annual Poetry Jam The First Parish Annual Poetry Jam is coming up on Sunday, August 28th! Each year we end our summer services with a morning of poetry reading. All poems are welcome. They might be funny or profound. They could be classics that you memorized years ago...
Summer Service: Eleanor Roosevelt — Susan Curnan
Summer Service: Mandalas – Carol McNamee
Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning circle or center. Ritual mandalas are used by Buddhist monks in Tibet as a focus of meditation and the journey toward enlightenment. In contrast to these formal ritual mandalas, Carl Jung introduced our western culture to a more...