Service Descriptions

Prose & Poetry Jam

Prose & Poetry Jam

Join us for our summer lay-led service: Prose & Poetry Jam with Leslie Bryant. Bring a short (one page hopefully) passage of meaningful prose (fiction or nonfiction) or a beloved poem to share with others. 

Regrouping, Resisting, Rejoicing: Flower Communion Sunday

Regrouping, Resisting, Rejoicing: Flower Communion Sunday

Join us for Regrouping, Resisting, Rejoicing: Flower Communion Sunday with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! Bring a flower (or more to share). We will remember our Unitarian Universalist heritage and celebrate the beauty of diversity within life with a Flower Communion. ...

Voices of Wisdom

Voices of Wisdom

Join us for Voices of Wisdom with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! The sermon will lift up the life lessons learned by some of our First Parish Elders. Are there similarities in the wisdom that arises if one lives a long life? Does what older people often learn relate to wisdom...

Old Stories & New Beginnings with Matt Meyer

Old Stories & New Beginnings with Matt Meyer

Join us for a service of song and silence, grounding ourselves in ritual and reflection. We’ll breathe deeply, letting go of what has not served us, and invite each other back to love.

Who We Choose to Be

Who We Choose to Be

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! For those of us who have great choices in how we live our lives, what might we choose? Thinking back on who we admire or revere in our memories of them, what can we apply to our own lives? What choices in these...

Always a Connection: Word Salad Sermon

Always a Connection: Word Salad Sermon

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler! Fifteen random words were submitted to me by those who purchased the opportunity to do so at the Auction last month. This is the Sunday that these seemingly random words will be put together in one sermon. ...

Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth

Join us for Sunday worship with Rev. Kathleen Hepler: My time here at First Parish is coming to an end on June 30. My last Sunday with you will be June 8. Let’s begin the saying of farewell this Sunday with a reflection about how First Parish of Sudbury is being...

Music Sunday

Music Sunday

Join First Parish of Sudbury for our annual Music Sunday: A Vision Unfolding—a powerful five-movement work for choir by composer Kyle Pederson. It will be performed by the First Parish of Sudbury Choir, directed by Debra Morris-Bennett, Minister of Music....

Easter Sunday: So Much Life All Over the Place 

Easter Sunday: So Much Life All Over the Place 

Join us for Easter Sunday with Rev. Hepler. Easter Sunday Soil Communion:Please bring a bit of soil (a half cup or so) from a place that is meaningful to you. It could be from your own yard, a plant pot, a public place of importance to you (library? school? voting...